Federal agencies are being encountered with on the rise cybersecurity threats, which are said to be the outcome of potentially complicated techniques of attack and the combining of once distinctive kinds of invasion into more multifaceted and destructive forms.
Instances of these threats are spam, phishing, and spyware. With the aim of handling these problems, security experts were asked to find out: (1) The possible risks to federal systems from these rising cybersecurity threats, (2) The federal agencies’ views of threat and their measures to tone down them, (3) Federal and private sector measures to deal with the threats nationwide (4) Government-wide challenges to shielding federal systems from these risks.
Spam, phishing, and spyware cause security threats to federal information systems. The combination of these risks brings about extra threats that cannot be simply alleviated with presently available tools. Agencies’ insights of the threats of spam, phishing, and spyware show a discrepancy.
Additionally, the majority of agencies were not making use of the information security program needs of the FISMA Act of 2002 to these increasing threats, with carrying out risks evaluations, putting into practice effectual extenuating controls, making available security alertness training, and guaranteeing that their incident-response plans and procedures addressed these threats.
