Twenty Most Important Controls and Metrics for Effective Cyber Defense and Continuous FISMA Compliance

A consortium of federal agencies and private organizations today released Version 1.0 of the Consensus Audit Guidelines that define the most critical security controls to protect federal
and contractor information and information systems. The draft may be found at http://www.sans.org/cag/

The CAG initiative is part of a larger effort housed at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC to advance key recommendations from the CSIS Commission report on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency.