An enhanced focus on automating legacy systems, prioritizing built-in security requirements in vendor contracts and carefully adopting mature artificial intelligence tools can help federal agencies bolster their overall cyber resilience, several officials from the Department of Veterans Affairs said on Tuesday.
During a discussion on the future of federal cybersecurity hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Amber Pearson — VA’s deputy chief information security officer — said the department oversees “34% of IT assets across the entire federal civilian space” and heavily relies on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency “to inform our enterprise cybersecurity implementation.”
