GSA, NGA shrink time to cyber-approve systems from year to month




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Summary: Two agencies may have found a path to solve one of the most time consuming and costly requirements for federal cybersecurity — the authority to operate. The General Services Administration and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have reduced the time it takes for a system to obtain an ATO from months to, in some cases, days. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, executive editor Jason Miller writes about how GSA and NGA did it. He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss.