Cyber Operations
Abstract
The Cyber Operations budget project in the Enabling Program Element is executed by the MDA Chief Information Officer who is the Agency Designated Approving Authority (DAA) for MDA Administrative information technology systems. The project provides funds to sustain MDA DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Program (DIACAP) and Controls Validation Testing (CVT) activities, analysis of validation results, risk assessments and reviews of proposed Program Manager/Information Assurance Manager (PM/IAM) Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms) for the MDA mission, test and administrative systems. It maintains the Certification & Accreditation (C&A) data repository, capturing the DIACAP documentation (artifacts, validation results, and Information Assurance Risk Assessment results, and Designated Approving Authority (DAA) accreditation decisions) and POA&M on all MDA information systems. It supports the monitoring and tracking of Cybersecurity mitigations detailed in IT security POA&Ms. Activities include preparation of C&A documentation and accreditation recommendations to the MDA Senior Information Assurance Officer (SIAO)/Certification Authority (CA) and DAA. Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) team actions ensure the availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality and non-repudiation of the MDA mission, test and administrative systems. Activities in the Project are necessary to comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). This project funds the MDA Security Operations Center (SOC), responsible for monitoring, managing, patching, and maintaining MDA network and core IT services; issuing and tracking Technical Compliance Orders; and coordinating overarching Enterprise NetOps. The SOC provides the network security operations centers and supporting processes to protect and defend Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) and the MDA Enterprise information and information systems. The MDA Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), funded in this project, monitors the classified and unclassified information technology MDA administrative IT networks and report vulnerabilities. The MDA CERT coordinates with U.S. Cyber Command to identify and implement network vulnerability updates and patches to comply with U.S. Cyber Command vulnerabilities identified for DoD networks. The project funds IA governance management and administrative management support, annual Agency-wide computer-based IA training and metrics reporting, implementation of Public Key Infrastructure and Enabling and Communications Security (COMSEC) related activities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- MC30_0603890C_4_0400_PB_2015
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