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NPPD - National Cybersecurity & Protection System (NCPS)

• Investment Description

  Purpose: The NCPS, operationally known as EINSTEIN, is an integrated system of intrusion detection, analytics, intrusion prevention, and information sharing capabilities that are used to defend the Federal Executive Branch civilian government's IT Purpose: The NCPS, operationally known as EINSTEIN, is an integrated system of intrusion detection, analytics, intrusion prevention, and information sharing capabilities that are used to defend the Federal Executive Branch civilian government's IT infrastructure from cyber threats. The NCPS consists of the hardware, software, supporting processes, training, and services that are being developed and acquired to support the Department's mission requirements as delineated in the CNCI and mandated in NSPD-54/ HSPD-23. The NCPS provides a wide range of cyber security capabilities for the Federal Executive Branch government networks (.gov domain), including: Intrusion detection (passive defense), Intrusion prevention (active defense), Advanced cyber analytics - such as data aggregation & correlation, visualization, malware analysis, and packet capture, Incident Management, and Information sharing and collaboration. Goals: Improve detection, prevention, and notification of cyber incidents, improve correlation, aggregation and visualization of cybersecurity data, improve information of cybersecurity activity.Current/Anticipated Benefit: This range of capabilities supports US-CERT operations, helps prevent cyber attacks on the .gov domain and reduces the time to respond to and recover from cyber attacks when they occur.Users: The users of the NCPS capability within the Department are US-CERT, and outside the Department are Departments and Agencies (D/A) Security Operations Centers (SOCs).Stakeholders of the NCPS include: Federal executive leadership, Federal Executive Branch civilian Departments and Agencies, tribal, state and local government, law enforcement, private industry, and international partners. More..

• FY2013 (CY) Spending

  $328 M

  Time frame of Investment

  2008 - 2021

• Status

  No change in status

CIO Information

Richard Spires

Agency Head

Janet A. Napolitano

Agency

DHS

Bureau

National Protection and Programs Directorate

Evaluation by Agency CIO

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Current Evaluation

4

Evaluation Explanation

The NCPS program is critical to the cyber security of the Federal Civilian Government IT infrastructure and is delivering needed capabilities. User sThe NCPS program is critical to the cyber security of the Federal Civilian Government IT infrastructure and is delivering needed capabilities. User satisfaction issues with Block 2.1 are being addressed through methods that do not require updates to the system. The PMO is monitoring system usage as a gauge of user acceptance. Staffing is on target with the staffing plan. The program, rebaselined in March 2011, is now operating in line with the baseline; however, the Life Cycle Cost Estimate (LCCE) will be revised to address the change in acquisition approach for Einstein 3 Advanced (E3A). NCPS has developed a detailed set of deliverables for its contractors as reflected in the Tailoring Plan and has mapped these deliverables to time, schedule, budget, and work breakdown structure (WBS). If the program is funded at the FY13-17 Resource Allocation Decision levels, there is a risk that there will be insufficient funding in FY15 to conduct a full technical refresh of the 2.1 as planned. The program has adopted the use of the Executive Steering Committee to ensure stakeholders are kept apprised of ongoing efforts and to escalate any issues requiring department level involvement. E3A work is progressing. The CIO assesses the NCPS program as a Moderately Low Risk investment. More..

Project Summary

• Number of Projects

  5

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