"Agencies Will Soon Have a Cyber Hygiene Score—And Will Know Where They Rank"

The data from cybersecurity tools provided to federal agencies by the Homeland Security Department’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program will be used to compile cyber scores. Cyber scores will indicate the cybersecurity postures of federal agencies. An algorithm, called AWARE (Agency-Wide Adaptive Risk Enumeration), will be used to determine the cyber scores. This article further discusses the AWARE score and how it will be used. 

Nextgov reports "Agencies Will Soon Have a Cyber Hygiene Score—And Will Know Where They Rank"