Take Note: How NSPM-12 and OMB's Logging Directive are Reshaping Federal Cybersecurity

Tune in Tuesday, October 20th at 2:00 PM ET

The federal government just raised the bar on cybersecurity — twice.

The recently released NSPM-12 is the most significant update to National Security Systems governance in decades. This White House directive establishes new requirements for continuous visibility, incident reporting, and asset inventory across DoD, the Intelligence Community, and civilian agencies. The message is clear: real-time awareness of what is happening across federal systems is no longer optional.

OMB's risk-based logging directive tells agencies how to get there. By shifting federal agencies away from blanket data retention toward a priority-driven logging strategy focused on real-time threat detection, digital forensics, and targeted retention, OMB has handed CISOs a concrete operational roadmap — and a deadline to submit updated logging plans to CISA.

Together, these two directives create a defining moment for federal cybersecurity. NSPM-12 sets the governance standard. OMB's logging directive provides the mechanism to meet it. This webinar brings together industry and government experts to help agencies understand what both directives require, where they intersect, and how to build a logging strategy that satisfies the new governance framework while cutting the operational inefficiencies OMB identified in legacy approaches.

What Attendees Will Learn:

• What NSPM-12 actually requires operationally and what it means for agency security teams beyond the policy summary
• How OMB's risk-based logging directive changes what agencies must capture, retain and report and what they can stop doing
• Where the two directives intersect and how a modern logging strategy can satisfy both simultaneously
• How to build a logging plan that meets CISA's submission requirements while supporting real-time threat detection and forensic investigation
• What agency CISOs and their industry partners should prioritize in the weeks and months ahead