Nearly 90% of Civilian Agencies Run DHS' Einstein 3A Cyber Program

Nextgov: The Homeland Security Department is supplying real-time cyber threat mitigation to 88 percent of federal civilian agencies, an official tells Nextgov.

That’s up from roughly 50 percent of agencies that were running the third-generation threat detection system known as Einstein 3 Accelerated, or E3A, in January, and 20 percent the year before.

It’s still shy though of the 100-percent participation Congress mandated by mid-December as part of Cybersecurity Act of 2015.

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