Federal agencies rarely struggle to identify their cyber risks.
A June Government Accountability Office report on federal cloud procurement confirmed that of the 24 major agencies GAO reviewed, 15 said outdated federal acquisition regulations directly slowed their ability to procure technology.
Meanwhile, the process federal agencies use to authorize and purchase a fix has not sped up to match.
It tends to come from a system built for predictability trying to keep pace with a threat environment built for speed.
Continuous, real-time visibility can change that math by giving agencies something the acquisition process may never manufacture on its own: lead time.