National Cybersecurity Protection System

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The National Cybersecurity Protection System is a U.S. federal program that provides intrusion detection, prevention, and other security capabilities to help protect government networks from cyber threats.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
US-CERT 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf federal cybersecurity program
intrusion detection system
intrusion prevention system
administeredBy Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
surface form: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director
alsoKnownAs NCPS
collects cybersecurity-related network data
country United States of America
surface form: United States
domain cybersecurity
excludesScope Department of Defense networks
intelligence community networks
private sector networks
focusesOn malicious network traffic detection
network perimeter security
goal improve detection of malicious activity on federal networks
reduce risk of cyber attacks on federal networks
governedBy U.S. federal cybersecurity policy
includesComponent EINSTEIN
legalAuthority Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014
surface form: Federal Information Security Modernization Act

Homeland Security Act of 2002
managedBy National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center
monitors federal network gateways
operatedBy Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
United States Department of Homeland Security
surface form: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
providesCapability cyber incident prevention
cyber threat detection
intrusion detection
intrusion prevention
network traffic monitoring
situational awareness
purpose protect U.S. federal civilian government networks from cyber threats
relatedTo Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation tools
surface form: Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program

EINSTEIN 2
EINSTEIN
surface form: EINSTEIN 3 Accelerated
scope federal civilian agencies
sectorProtected federal civilian executive branch networks
supports federal civilian executive branch agencies
supportsFunction federal incident response
threat information sharing
technologyType network-based security system
threatTypeAddressed denial-of-service attacks
malware
phishing
unauthorized network intrusions
usesDataSource network flow data
packet capture data
security alerts

Referenced by (3)

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EINSTEIN 2 associatedWith National Cybersecurity Protection System
EINSTEIN 2 implementedBy National Cybersecurity Protection System
this entity surface form: US-CERT
Cybersecurity Division oversees National Cybersecurity Protection System