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MICROSOFT WORKING WITH CISA ON ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR CLOUD SECURITY CONFIGURATIONS

Justin Doubleday@jdoubledayWFED
October 24, 2022 11:58 am
3 min read
      

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released minimum
security configurations for widely used cloud-based business applications, and
Microsoft is now working with CISA on an assessment tool to help measure federal
progress toward the standards.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Secure Cloud Business
Applications (SCuBA) program published configurations covering eight services
across the Microsoft 365 series, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and
Azure Active Directory.

“These baselines will kick off a series of...

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released minimum
security configurations for widely used cloud-based business applications, and
Microsoft is now working with CISA on an assessment tool to help measure federal
progress toward the standards.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Secure Cloud Business
Applications (SCuBA) program published configurations covering eight services
across the Microsoft 365 series, including Microsoft Teams, Exchange Online, and
Azure Active Directory.

“These baselines will kick off a series of pilot efforts to advance cloud
security practices across the [federal civilian executive branch] and more
effectively safeguard sensitive information and government services,” Michael
Duffy, CISA’s associate director, wrote in an Oct. 20 blog post.

CISA began working on the SCuBA project last year with funding from the American
Rescue Plan. The goal is to set standard security configurations across widely
used business applications in government, a gap that was exposed in the
SolarWinds hack.

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CISA is now seeking public comment on the security baseline documents through
Nov. 24.

“These baselines were developed with flexibility in mind to keep pace with
evolving technologies and capabilities while protecting the federal enterprise
today,” Duffy wrote. “Although these documents are principally intended for use
by federal agencies, CISA recommends that all organizations utilizing cloud
services review the baselines and implement practices therein where
appropriate.”

Steve Faehl, Microsoft Federal’s security chief technology officer, said the
company is partnering with CISA to develop a “security baseline assessment tool”
to help gauge agency progress with the security configurations.

“That really brings the capability to evaluate the adoption of those
configurations, do so at scale and do so continuously,” Faehl said in an
interview with Federal News Network. “And in these projects, one of the most
essential things is enumerating and measuring progress. So that’s an area that
we really think we can help, is not only in providing the guidance that helps
support best practice configuration, but helping CISA to achieve that watermark
at scale.”



The configurations published by CISA are a “relatively low” lift for agencies to
implement, Faehl said, and circumstances will vary across agency environments
and missions. But they draw an important “line in the sand,” he added, when it
comes to minimum expectations.

“As there’s been a request for comment on these baselines, that’s probably where
a lot of the feedback will come in around, what does that line look like? And
does it take into account the edge case that my agency has to deal with?” Faehl
said.

The security baselines were driven by a group under the Federal Chief
Information Officers Council’s called the “Cyber Innovation Tiger Team,”
according to CISA.



The tiger team members, per CISA, are:

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 * Mike Witt, chief information security officer, National Aeronautics and Space
   Administration
 * James Saunders, CISO, Office of Personnel Management
 * Beau Houser, CISO, Census Bureau
 * Andrew Havely, CTO, U.S. Department of the Interior
 * Han Wei Lin, Sandia National Laboratories
 * Sanjay Gupta, chief information officer, Executive Office for Immigration
   Review, Justice Department

Faehl said the team brought diverse perspectives and backgrounds to the work of
setting standard configurations across government.



“Engaging experts at that level and providing our knowledge to them is a great
way to scale that knowledge throughout the entire federal civilian branch,” he
said.

Meanwhile, CISA will publish similar configuration baselines for Google
Workspace applications “in the coming months,” according to Duffy.

“Ultimately the publication of the GWS and M365 baselines will further CISA’s
mission to secure the federal enterprise by addressing cybersecurity and
visibility gaps within cloud-based business applications,” he wrote.

 

      

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