Uncle Sam orders federal agencies to step up scans for govt IT security holes

The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered federal civilian agencies to scan for and report software vulnerabilities in their IT systems more frequently under a directive issued this week. Specifically, the agencies have until April 3, 2023 to automate IT asset discovery every seven …

[Anonymous Coward]

"step in the right direction."

The cynic in me agrees with your lede, that it's "Good time to be selling automation tools".

The even greater cynic doubts the intelligence community is going to be forthcoming.

But this is, indeed, a step in the right direction. At the very least, an inventory of what devices are connected to the network would be a big step forward.

[amanfromMars 1]

The Other Donald warned you of what cannot be Ducked and has <s>you FCUKed</s> your Goose Cooked

Methinks that US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s order will only engage and result in headless chicken behaviour and activity for critical infrastructure defenders are being asked and tasked to look for something possibly invisible and practically intangible and against which there are no available effective attack or defence vectors.

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know.” ...... Donald Rumsfeld

And you might like to consider and ponder on the fact that such a truth/revelation as is freely shared above is well enough known and ably exercised to their designedly unfair exclusive executive inequitable advantage by ideally, an engaging enlightened few ...... because for it to be realisable in the hands, hearts and minds of anything at all sinister is not something to be enjoyed and encouraged.