10780 Parkridge Boulevard 4th Floor, Reston, VA 20191 | 571.423.0200 | info@octoconsulting.com THE PROBLEM: HHS received the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) directive to implement security monitoring. CDM relies heavily on log data, which are digital records that help determine what has happened at any given point on a system. However, logs can be corrupted, provide inconsistent data, or contain vulnerabilities. If the data from these logs cannot be trusted, damaging security vulnerabilities and unreliable CDM reports can result. Because some data was unreliable, employees spent months trying to find the sources of identified issues, sometimes never discovering what was changed, by whom, and where. THE SOLUTION: Octo aimed

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