Company
Date Published
Author
Thomas Sobolik, Geoffrey Carlisle
Word count
730
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

As of August 2023, only three out of 23 US government agencies were compliant with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requirements for log management and security observability. These requirements are outlined in M-21-31, a 2021 memorandum that was issued following Executive Order 14028 on improving national cybersecurity. Datadog offers Log Management, Cloud Workload Security, and Cloud SIEM in its US1-FED region on AWS GovCloud, aligning with our FedRAMPĀ® Moderate Authorization. This enables seamless compliance for public sector organizations using Datadog. The solution brief explains how Datadog helps organizations address the challenges associated with M-21-31 compliance by meeting log retention and storage, log management and access, and security threat management requirements.