FACT SHEET: Enhancing and Strengthening the Federal Government's Cybersecurity

Citation
Office of Management and Budget, FACT SHEET: Enhancing and Strengthening the Federal Government’s Cybersecurity (June 12, 2015) (full-text).

Overview
This effort, better known as the 30-Day Cybersecurity Sprint, directed federal agencies to make several immediate improvements to their cybersecurity policies and processes. It also formed a Cybersecurity Sprint Team to review federal cybersecurity policies and processes, identify shortcomings and priorities, and recommend how to address them.

In addition, the Sprint directed the development of a federal cybersecurity strategy based on the following key principles:


 * protecting data
 * improving situational awareness
 * increasing cybersecurity proficiency
 * increasing awareness
 * standardizing and automating processes
 * controlling, containing, and recovering from incidents
 * strengthening systems lifecycle security
 * reducing attack surfaces.