According to a Request for Information (RFI) released last month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in the USA plans to ramp up threat hunting and incident response efforts to improve federal civilian email security capabilities, according to a Request for Information(RFI) released last month.
The RFI states that CISA via the General Service Administration is looking for feedback from the industry on a more extensive set of security measures. It also includes contractor-supplied protective email services to strengthen federal network protections.
In addition to leveraging its own cyber prevention hunting, mitigation, and incident response operations, CISA is also exploring new solutions to protect better federal civilian executive branch emails and federal networks from malicious emails.
The service should include core functionalities like email attack prevention, scanning, and filtering to assist threat intelligence feeds and data loss prevention. CISA also wants to have in-line active email protection in the services.
The service will be cloud-based and apply to approximately 4 million users and email platforms, including on-premises, cloud-hosted, and hybrid of 100 agencies across all federal civilian executive branches.
The RFI states that CISA will have some authority over email networks. It also mentions that the private company will have access to their data and additional policy settings but will not override CISA globally provisioned policies.
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