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Navy CIO Outlines Strategies
Published on 20 Oct, 2009 at 9:57 in Cloud | Viewed 172 times | No Comments
Robert Carey, the Navy’s CIO, outlined some of the key concepts and strategies for Navy cyber/IT on his blog. He believes that these six areas are significant opportunities that the Navy should work to implement.
Carey’s first strategy is to ensure that the Navy embraces new technologies as they become available. Carey said “we must be able to embrace change and ensure that our organizational leaders…
Navy IT Plan Highlights Role of Cybersecurity
Published on 12 Oct, 2009 at 8:48 in Cyber | Viewed 92 times | No Comments
In the Navy’s recently announced IT plan for the 2010 fiscal year, CIO Robert Carey outlined some of the key areas of focus, including increased cybersecurity, more use of Web 2.0 and network architecture planning.
One of Carey’s key focuses is on ensuring the Navy’s networks are secure.
The Navy is looking to significantly reduce the number of data breaches involving personal information by encrypting data, not storing as…
Taskforce to Focus on Effectiveness over Compliance
Published on 6 Oct, 2009 at 9:08 in Cyber | Viewed 168 times | No Comments
A cross-agency task force is looking to implement a standard set of metrics to measure the effectiveness of cybersecurity efforts throughout government agencies.
The new Security Metrics Taskforce will look to examples throughout the government and private sector in developing the new metric standards.
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra made the announcement amid growing criticism of FISMA’s failure to focus on effectiveness in favor of compliance…
10 Cybersecurity Game Changers to Watch in 2010
Published on 29 Sep, 2009 at 14:12 in GovCon Industry | Viewed 1,885 times | 4 Comments
The field of cybersecurity is becoming increasingly relevant to discussions on national security.
President Barack Obama placed cybersecurity in the forefront of his national…
Navy CIO Robert Carey: Cybersecurity is “Most Serious Economic and Security Challenge of the 21st Century”
Published on 13 Aug, 2009 at 14:00 in Cloud | Viewed 125 times | No Comments
Robert Carey, Navy Chief Information Officer, was quoted yesterday at Virtual FOSE’s keynote presentation calling cyber threats “the most serious economic and security challenge of the 21st century.”
“We are being exploited at unprecedented scale by a growing array of state and non-state actors,” Carey added.“The U.S. must take action, protecting the critical infrastructure upon which our economy and security is based, from potential exploitation, disruption or destruction…We need to transition from the…
