Jason Miller writes the General Services Administration is responsible for the continuous monitoring and diagnostics contract and will charge a 2-percent fee for usage.
Federal, state, local and tribal governments can use the contract to acquire tools, hardware and software for implementing continuous-monitoring-as-a-service, Miller reports.
Citing a GSA statement, Miller writes the government aims to move away from historical compliance reporting and adopt a more real-time structure for combating cyber threats.
The government also wants to correlate and analyze security-related information across the federal enterprise by using automated monitoring tools, according to the report.
For a full list of awardees, click here to read Miller’s story.