CYBERSecurity Mission Area

Leadership Team

The ATARC Cybersecurity Leadership provides direction, guidance, and support to the various groups of project team Leaders and members in the Cybersecurity Working Group, The Leadership team exists for the purpose of helping the project teams achieve their goals, and coordinate between cross-cutting topics.

Cybersecurity Leadership is continuously conceiving and developing new initiatives, such as the state and local cyber grant program and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC). These initiatives are at various stages of maturity towards becoming independent Working Groups, please contact us with your specific interests. In these groups, we hope to address many further-future-looking ideas and concepts including cyber range exercises, higher education, healthcare, etc.

Podcast on Cyber and Mobile: Listen here!

As government agencies implement their Zero-Trust strategies, the Device Pillar is critical towards “device attestation”.  This goes hand-in-hand with Identity to ensure the mobile device is not compromised.  Whether it is conditional access for O365, Mobile-EDR, GFE, or BYOD.  Ensuring Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) is included in your strategy is paramount, as further amplified in OMB Mandates 21-31, 22-01, and 22-09. 

Podcast on Keeping US Federal Agencies Ahead of the Latest Vulnerabilities listen here!

Hostile nation-states and other bad actors relentlessly probe the networks of federal, state, and local governments. Constant visibility into all internet assets empowers government organizations to discover and remediate vulnerable assets before malicious actors get to them. Cortex Xpanse research shows that attackers start scanning the internet for vulnerable systems within minutes of a disclosure. Defenders need to be able to find their vulnerable assets just as fast to ensure critical systems are never at risk.

Podcast on Zero Trust (New episodes launching soon!)

All Federal agencies are moving to implement Zero Trust architectures as directed by last year’s Cybersecurity Executive Order, and some are key players in shaping implementation across Government. Agencies have different missions, resources, and no two are starting from exactly the same security posture. Join us to hear about the priorities, challenges, and successes some Federal agencies are encountering on their journey to implement zero trust.

Zero Trust 

This group will focus on Zero Trust and how we need to be thinking differently about security, risk, & governance. The topics covered will include the convergence of government policies and moving to a continuous compliance model. Members will also discuss the Importance of AI while using unsupervised machine learning to enhance the mission of your agency or organization.

FISMA Security Metrics

Global Quantum 

The function of this group is to assist the United States Federal Government and its Agencies, Committees, Subcommittees, Working Groups, Advisory Councils as well as United States Diplomats and other United States Foreign Service Officials in the execution of their charters as dictated by United States laws and the President’s executive orders.

Identity Management 

The group’s goal is to identify, understand, and provide strategic recommendations for challenges and barriers affecting the broader US Federal Community’s Identity Credential and Access Management (ICAM) deployments and offerings.  Then, in close alignment with government entities such as OMB for policy and NIST for guidance, the ATARC Identity Team aims to provide strategic recommendations to remove any identified barriers and accelerate adoption of ICAM best practices to increase efficiency and reduce cost using cutting-edge identity solutions.

White Paper on Realizing the HSPD-12 Interoperability Vision now open for public comment through June 30, 2022. 

State and Local Cyber Grants (coming soon!)

Supply Chain Risk Management (coming soon!)

The Supply Chain Risk Management Working Group is composed of the Federal government, academia and industry with the purpose of working collaboratively to identify, educate, and find reasonable solutions to address the challenges associated with cybersecurity risks that threaten America’s supply chain.