All things Federal Cyber OVerview

U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

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├── Executive Branch

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│ ├── Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

│ │ ├── Issues government-wide cybersecurity policies (Circular A-130)

│ │ └── Oversees FISMA reporting

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│ ├── Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

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│ │ ├── Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

│ │ │ ├── Oversees Federal civilian cybersecurity under FISMA

│ │ │ ├── Manages CISA KEV Catalog

│ │ │ ├── Issues Binding Operational Directives (BOD)

│ │ │ └── Operates vulnerability/ threat portals (CVE, KEV, etc.)

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│ │ └── US-CERT (sub-unit of CISA)

│ │ ├── Incident response

│ │ ├── Alerts & advisories

│ │ └── Threat intelligence

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│ ├── Department of Commerce

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│ │ └── National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

│ │ ├── NIST Risk Mgmt Framework (RMF)

│ │ ├── NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)

│ │ ├── NIST SP 800-53 Security Controls

│ │ ├── NIST SP 800-37 (RMF Process)

│ │ ├── NIST SP 800-171 (CUI Protection)

│ │ ├── NIST SP 800-63 (Digital Identity)

│ │ └── National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

│ │ ├── Hosts CVE scoring (CVSS)

│ │ └── Maps weaknesses to CPE/CWE

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│ ├── General Services Administration (GSA)

│ │ └── FedRAMP Program Management Office (PMO)

│ │ ├── Cloud authorization program

│ │ ├── Uses NIST 800-53 controls baseline

│ │ ├── Issues FedRAMP Moderate/High/LI-SaaS baselines

│ │ └── Works with 3PAOs for cloud assessments

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│ ├── Department of Defense (DoD)

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│ │ ├── DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency)

│ │ │ ├── STIGs (Security Technical Implementation Guides)

│ │ │ └── DoD Cloud SRG

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│ │ ├── DoD CIO

│ │ └── DoD RMF (based on NIST RMF + DoD-specific overlays)

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│ └── Intelligence Community (ODNI)

│ └── IC Standards (ICD 503)

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└── Independent / Federally Supported Organizations

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├── MITRE Corporation

│ ├── Maintains CVE Program (with DHS/CISA)

│ ├── MITRE ATT&CK Framework

│ ├── MITRE D3FEND

│ └── MITRE ATLAS (AI threat modeling)

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└── FIRST.org (not federal but works with them)

└── Maintains CVSS Standard (used by NVD)