GOVTek Monthly Newsletter: Issue 55, March 2009
TOP HEADLINES
Thumb Drives Like Unsafe Sex
National security executive says thumb drives promote the spread of ETDS (electronically transmitted diseases) and simplifies the ability to steal files
National security executive says thumb drives promote the spread of ETDS (electronically transmitted diseases) and simplifies the ability to steal files
Shifting Gears in Telework Push
Mid-level managers often create the biggest hurdles to an agency's telework program, so more training and emphasis is needed at this level to ensure success and growth of telework programs
Digital Files on Presidential Helicopter Found in Iran
Use of file-sharing programs cited as the cause for the security breach, highlighting the need for tightened monitoring of applications run by government employees and contractors
Government to Go
Agencies are finding new ways to provide services to citizens via mobile devices
FEATURED NEWS
White House Calls for Review of All Cyber Security Plans, Programs
Federal News Radio reports that the White House called for a 60-day review of all cyber security plans, programs and activities underway throughout the federal government. Obama's Melissa Hathaway to lead this effort.
Federal News Radio reports that the White House called for a 60-day review of all cyber security plans, programs and activities underway throughout the federal government. Obama's Melissa Hathaway to lead this effort.
NIST Creates Cloud-Computing Team
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a new team to determine the best way to provide security for agencies that want to adopt the emerging technology called cloud computing.
CIOs Urged to Collaborate on Obama's IT Goals
CIOs must work together on how to use Web 2.0 and other technologies to take data, organize it, and push it out to the public
DOE Takes New Approach to Cyber Security
Instead of a "wall-and-moat" approach to security, scientific research and analysis should be use to increase the agencies ability to prevent attacks.
Final Stimulus Bill Keeps Billions for IT
Although almost all IT-related programs received cuts, significant dollars still allocated to health IT, security and the 'greening' of federal buildings
DHS to Use More Simulations in Infrastructure Protection
Although experts agree simulations are necessary in a comprehensive security, this and previous DHS initiatives are being highly scrutinized for a lack of detail and for not going far enough
Cross-Domain Identity Management
ID Management for data access regardless of agency is a realistic goal, but barriers such as trust and interoperability will make it difficult
Cyber-Security Audit Guidelines Recommended
The Consensus Audit Guidelines provides 20 recommendations to block or prevent cyber attacks according to a mix of public and private security experts
FEATURED GTRA BLOG
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RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Press Release: Intrepidus Group Wins Government Technology Research Alliance "Best Of" 2008 Tech Award for "Best Boardroom Meeting"
Press Release: TopQuadrant - Using SPARQL for Dynamic Business Applications
White Paper: Active Anti-Malware Protection
White Paper: Integrated Security Architectural Framework
White Paper: The Essential Elements of Secure Remote Access ... Without The Management Headaches
White Paper: Enterprise Authentication: Increasing Security Without Breaking The Bank
White Paper: The Critical Role of Data Loss Prevention in Governance, Risk and Compliance
White Paper: Compliance, Protection, Recovery: A Layered Approach to Laptop Security for Healthcare Organizations
Announcement: WIT Opens Nominations for 10th Annual Leadership Awards
Announcement: Visit the New Cisco Webpage for Government Wireless and Mobility Solutions
Announcement: Post a Job on GTRA's New Job Forum!
Announcement: Post Your Resume on GTRA's New Job Forum!
GTRA and Succeed to Lead are joining forces to provide government leaders a half-day executive-level meeting from our convenient downtown DC location. The meeting's curriculum is built around the theme "Executive Transformational Leadership" and will educate attendees on the tools and techniques necessary to be effective leaders in our ever-changing environment that includes a new administration, a changing workforce and new technologies such as social networking.
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The GTRA Symposium, June 7-9, 2009 at the Homestead, VA, is designed to provide government CXOs an executive-level forum to learn, collaborate and share best practices across the areas paramount to executing successful IT strategies: Enterprise Architecture, Security, Green IT, Health IT, Defense and Leadership. The GTRA Symposium converges the GTRA Council Meetings, ArchitectureGOV, SecureGOV, GreenGOV, Leadership/HRGOV, HealthGOV taking place at the same time and location for true government-wide collaboration. Each of these individual councils will have a full program while allowing participants to network and share information across technology areas.
This unique forum engages multi-discipline collaboration while balancing the need for in-depth learning on critical subject areas including:
| • Enterprise Architecture • Cyber Security • Social Networking / Web 2.0 • Identity and Access Management • Cloud Computing • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) • Information Sharing • Virtualization • Privacy • Security Architectures |
• Green IT • Segment Architecture • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) • IT Governance • Leadership • Records Management • Performance Management • Telework • Contracting |
CONFIRMED COUNCIL MEMBERS & SPEAKERS
Dr. Suzanne Acar, Principal Data Architect, DAS (Speaker & Enterprise Architecture Council)
Deedee Akeo, Chief Architect, Business Transformation Agency (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Lynn Allen, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Business and Technology Modernization, HUD (Security Council)
Dr. Peter Alterman, Deputy Associate Administrator for Technology Strategy, Office of Government-wide Policy, GSA (Security Council)
Gregg "Skip" Bailey, Former Chief Information Officer, ATF, Justice (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Frank Bauer, Vice President for Government Training and Professional Development, Graduate School, USDA (HR Council)
Dr. Scott Bernard, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Federal Railroad Administration, Transportation (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Andrew Blumenthal, Chief Technology Officer, ATF, Justice (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Dr. W. Stan Boddie, PMP, CISSP, Professor of Systems Management, Information Resource Management College, NDU (HR Council)
Dr. Barry Brown, Deputy Director, Enterprise Systems Engineer, Customs and Border Protection, DHS (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Richard “Dick” Burk, Chair, Health IT Committee, GTRA (Speaker & Health IT Council)
Jonathan Cantor, Executive Director, Office of Privacy & Disclosure, Office of the General Counsel, SSA (Security Council)
Michael Castagna, Chief Information Security Officer, Commerce (Security Council)
Marian Cody, Chief Information Security Officer, HUD (Speaker & Security Council)
Colleen Coggins, Chief Knowledge Officer, Interior (Speaker & Enterprise Architecture Council)
Doreen Cox, Chief Architect, Customs & Border Protection Department, DHS (Speaker & Enterprise Architecture Council)
Elisa Cruz, Chief Information Security Officer, FEMA (Speaker & Security Council)
Kevin Deeley, Chief Information Security Officer, Justice (Security Council)
Brian Doerk, Senior Enterprise Architect, PMP, Treasury (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Steve Elky, Chief Information Security Officer, Library of Congress (Security Council)
Norman Enger, Former Director, Human Resources Line of Business Program Management Office, OPM (HR Council)
Frederic Foley, Chief Architect and Director of Enterprise Architecture, U.S. Coast Guard (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Ylanda Ford, Director, Enterprise Architecture, OCIO, HUD (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Christopher Fornecker, Chief Technology Officer, Integrated Acquisition Environment, GSA (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Sharon Fratta-Hill, Ph.D., VP of Academic Programs and Continuing Education, Graduate School, USDA (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Ned Goldberg, Chief Information Security Officer, FDIC (Security Council)
Marc Groman, Chief Privacy Officer, FTC (Speaker)
Ira Grossman, Chief Enterprise Architect, Federal Emergency Management Agency (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Chris Hardy, Director, e-Learning and Technology Center, DAU (HR Council)
Brad Harshman, Chief Enterprise Architect, National Nuclear Security Administration, Energy (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Kenneth Heitkamp, Assistant Chief Information Officer for LifeCycle Management, Air Force (Security Council)
Dennis Heretick, Former Chief Information Security Officer, Justice (Security Council)
Vance Hitch, Chief Information Officer, Co-Chair Information Security and Identity Management Committee, Federal CIO-Council, Justice (Speaker)
Randolph C. Hite, Director, IT Architecture & Systems Issues, GAO (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Patrick Howard, Chief Information Security Officer, NRC (Speaker & Security Council)
Marlene Howze, Chief Architect/Enterprise Architecture Program Manager, Labor (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Jack Israel, Chief Technology Officer, FBI (Security Council)
John Jefferies, Vice President, Product Marketing, IronKey (Speaker)
Richard Klemmer,Chief Enterprise Architect, NTIA, Commerce (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Andrew Krzmarzick, Senior Project Coordinator, Graduate School, USDA (Speaker)
Mischel Kwon, Director, US-CERT, DHS (Security Council)
Mary Lacey, Deputy Program Director, AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense, Missile Defense Agency (Security Council)
Kevin Lawson, Branch Chief, Applications Development Branch, TSA (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Phillip Loranger, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Education (Security Council)
Mary McCaffery, Senior Advisor, Assistant Administrator, EPA (Speaker & Enterprise Architecture Council)
Michael McFarren, Senior Principal, Information Systems Engineer, MITRE (Speaker & Enterprise Architecture Council)
Debra McKeldin, Chief Enterprise Architect, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, HHS (Enterprise Architecture Council)
John McManus, Former Deputy Chief Information Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Commerce (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Capt. Stephen Mancini, Information Operations & Assurance Department, NDU (Speaker)
Randy Maples, CEA, Deputy Chief Information Officer – Management, FTC (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Ethel Matthews, Senior Advisor to Chief Information Officer, Security and Privacy, SBA (Security Council)
Margaret Mech, Chief Information Security Officer, FTC (Security Council)
Peter Mell, Cloud Computing Project Lead, Senior Computer Scientist, NIST (Speaker)
Matt Newman, Professor of Systems Management, NDU (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Jillian O’Connell, Chief, Enterprise Investment and Information Management, US Geological Survey (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Walt Okon, Senior Enterprise Architect, DoD Enterprise Architecture & Standards Directorate, Defense (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Bajinder Paul, Chief Information Officer of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Richard Prentiss, Chief Information Security Officer, Office of Thrift Supervision, Treasury (Security Council)
Dr. James Ransome, CISSP, CISM, Senior Director, Secure Unified Wireless and Mobility Solutions, Corporate Security Programs and Global Government Solutions, Cisco (Speaker)
Joe Rose, Chief Architect, Education (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Ron Ross, Senior Computer Scientist, NIST (Speaker)
Larry Ruffin, Chief Information Security Officer, Interior (Security Council)
Timothy Ruland, Chief Information Security Officer, Census Bureau (Speaker & Security Council)
Peter Sand, Director of Privacy Technology, DHS (Security Council)
Dr. Ronald Sanders, Associate Director of National Intelligence for Human Capital, Chief Human Capital Officer, DNI (HR Council)
Marco Santini, Deputy Director, Customer Accounts & Research, GSA (HR Council)
Daud Santosa, Chief Technology Officer, National Business Center, Interior (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Michael Schievelbein, Project Manager & Solutions Architect, Solutions Coordination Office, National Business Center, Interior (Speaker & Enterprise Architecture Council)
Tim Schmidt, Chief Technology Officer, Transportation (Mobile & Wireless Council)
Frederick Schobert, Chief Technology Officer, Federal Acquisition Office’s Integrated Technology Services, GSA (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Joe Seger, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Interior (Security Council)
Donna K. Seymour, Deputy Assistant for Administration for the Under Secretary of the Navy, Navy (Enterprise Architecture Council)
John Sullivan, Chief Architect and Associate Director, EPA (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Peter Sullivan, Director, Office of the Chief Information Officer, Labor (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Eric Sweden, Chief Enterprise Architect, NASCIO (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Harry Tabak, IT Security Officer and Enterprise Architect, National Weather Service (Enterprise Architecture Council)
George Thomas, Chief Enterprise Architect, GSA (Speaker & Enterprise Architecture Council)
Peter Tseronis, Deputy Associate Chief Information Officer, Energy (Speaker)
James Trinka, Director, Training and Technical Development, FAA (HR Council)
Arleas Upton-Kea, Director, Division of Administration, FDIC (HR Council)
Brian Wilczynski, Director, Enterprise Architecture & Standards, Defense (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Dennis Wisnosky, Chief Architect, Chief Technical Officer, Business Mission Area, Defense (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Diane Woodson-Reeves, Business Architect, Interior (Speaker)
Paul Wormeli, Executive Director, Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Dr. Robert "Rocky" Young, Associate Professor of Systems Management, NDU (Speaker & Enterprise Architecture Council)
David Zeppieri, Chief Information Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Enterprise Architecture Council)
Contact kellyy@gtra.org to request more information on industry participation.
