Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation: Evolving Federal Defenses with Cost-Effective and Maintainable Data Integration Solutions

Civilian federal agencies have struggled to implement the Continuous Diagnostics and

Mitigation program over the past decade. Billions of dollars have been spent, and the

cybersecurity tools have been deployed. Yet, there are challenges in getting the data from

those tools into the new CDM Dashboard powered by Elasticsearch and Kibana. Filebeat

and Logstash can solve this problem. The data from two CDM tools, HCL BigFix and

Tenable.sc were collected using Filebeat and Logstash and stored in Elasticsearch. This

approach is simple, maintainable, feasible, and cost-effective.