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2016 Government Excellence Entry selected by judges: Agency: Department of Homeland Security, Office of Cybersecurity and Communications Category: Most Notable Cybersecurity Program or Technology Product: National Cybersecurity Assessments and Technical Services (NCATS) 2016 Government Excellence Entry selected by judges: Agency: DOJ, OPM Category: Most Notable Government Security Program, Project of Initiative Product, Service or Program: Interagency Security Committee Risk Management Process (ISCRMP) Training Program 2016 Government Excellence Entry selected by judges: Agency: State of Montana Category: Most Notable State Government Program, Project or Initiative Program: State Information Technology Services Division (SITSD), State of Montana 2016 Government Excellence Entry selected by judges: Agency: Wombat Security Technologies Category: Most Notable Cybersecurity Program or Technology Product, Service or Program: Wombat Security Education Platform 79
GSN 2016 DIGITAL YEARBOOK OF HOMELAND SECURITY AWARDS RECIPIENTS 2016 GSN 2016 Government Excellence Award USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) 2016 Winner Awards Category: –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Most Notable Federal Government Security Program, Project or Initiative Name of Nominated Product, Service, or Program: –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– BeyondTrust Powerbroker Reason this entry deserves to win: –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– In June of 2015, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) launched a 30-day Cybersecurity Sprint to assess and improve the health of all Federal assets and networks. Agencies were directed to protect Federal information systems, and improve the resilience of networks in both civilian and military organizations, then report on their successes and challenges. Organizations were instructed to immediately patch critical vulnerabilities and strictly limit the number of privileged users with access to authorized systems, while significantly accelerating the use of strong authentication for privileged users. The US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), took the call to action seriously and set out to rapidly secure 11,000 privileged users in their windows environment. Deploying BeyondTrust Powerbroker for Windows in half the time expected for a deployment of this size, the USDA-ARS was able to secure and manage their privileged accounts quickly and efficiently. In many cases, achieving this well ahead of peer agencies. Legacy Software: Upgrades and Vulnerabilities The USDA-ARS began to see immediate benefits. “As we brought ARS sites from around the country into Enterprise Active Directory, under the agency domain, we found thousands of machines had older versions of software, such as Internet Explorer, Adobe, Java, etc. Many of these older versions of software were found to contain vulnerabilities and a mandate was generated to upgrade to the latest versions. With PBW, I was able to 80
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