GOVTek Monthly Newsletter: Issue 56, April 2009
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TOP HEADLINES
Government Seizes Opportunity to Build Security into New Critical Infrastructure
Part of the $4.5 billion set aside in the stimulus package for a the Smart Grid will fund go to NIST for development of standard security settings
Johnson to Retire from GSA
Johnson is credited with dramatically improving government access to mission critical technologies and IT solutions
US Government Creates Cloud Computing Security Group
Great Blog about NISTs Cloud Computing Security initiative with links to resources
Hundreds Flock to Camp for Social Networking in Government
Billed as an "unconference", the agenda was decided on-site by delegates and lead to passionate discussions on how to best use Web 2.0 tools to securely interact with the public
Stimulus Czar is Well Prepared for New Role
DeSeve's diverse background and proven track record at the federal, state and local level make many feel he will succeed
FEATURED NEWS
IDC: Stimulus to Pump Billions into Federal IT
Approximately $2.5 billion will go to federal agencies for technology spending
Web 2.0 for the Pros
Interview with Sheila Campbell, co-chairperson of the Federal Web Managers Council, on resources and best practices regarding federal Web 2.0 initiatives
Standards Body Investigates C4I Security Tagging
Different service commands would be able to share information among themselves, as well as with intelligence agencies and foreign military services if they adopted a set of standardized security tags
Green Initiatives Begin to Make Business Sense
Stimulus money focused on green initiatives coupled with new technologies, increased awareness and new directives & incentives are transforming the "Green" movement from a fad to a sustainable business model
GSA Signs Agreement with Web 2.0 Providers
The agreement is the first major initiative to provide agencies the ability to use new media tools without having to worry about meeting legal requirements
Obama Names National Health IT Coordinator
David Blumenthal is tasked with directing how $19.5 billion will be spent to advance implementation of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)
Cyberattack Mapping Could Yield Blueprint for Cyber Defense
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed large-scale simulations based on actual attacks which are analyzed to give insight as to how organized attacks work and how they can be protected against
Officials Struggle With Data for Recovery.gov
Concerns over the quality of data as well as site complexity are hindering site development
OPM: Feds Can Hire Temporary Workers
The ruling gives agencies the authority to hire temporary workers for up to one-year at any pay grade if the work they do supports the recovery act
Kundra Challenges Government to Lead Tech Revolution
Kundra outlined his four main priorities to be transparency, engagement, innovation and lowering the cost of government
FEATURED GTRA BLOGS
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Getting Over Your Fear of the Cloud Parham Eftekhari, Co-Founder & Director of Research & Curriculum Development, GTRA |
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Bridging the Business & IT Divide Andrew Blumenthal, Chief Technology Officer, ATF, Justice |
PRESS RELEASES
Press Release: NIH Awards Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Citizant
Press Release: Citizant Names Ken Arthur Group Vice President
Press Release: New Study Provides Real–World Data on Leading Software Security Initiatives
Press Release: Annual Rachel Carson Lecture: Videophilia and Our Changing Relationship with Nature
Press Release: 2009 SOA Symposium Starts Today - Walk-Ins Welcome!
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
White Paper: Leading a Changing Workforce - Leveraging Generational Diversity and Strengths
White Paper: The Value of Threat Intelligence
Presentation: Transformational Leadership Under the Obama Administration
Presentation: Employee Engagement to Drive Productivity
Presentation: Proven, Contemporary Solutions to Accelerate Leadership Effectiveness
Overview: SecureWorks Services Overview
Blog: SecureWorks Threat Intelligence Unit Targets the Conficker Worm
Announcement: Register for Troux's Directions Conference on April 15 in Washington, DC!
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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 |
FEATURED SESSIONS
*CLICK HERE to participate in a pre-event discussion with the Symposium speakers - ask questions, request specific information, offer feedback, etc.
The Cyber Security Challenge
Vance Hitch, Chief Information Officer, Co-Chair Information Security and Identity Management Committee, Federal CIO-Council, Justice
Information Assurance and Risk Management Practices for Agency-Wide Success: A DoD Case Study
Robert Lentz, Chief Information Assurance Officer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information Integration/Chief Information Officer, Defense
Transparency and Open Government: Technologies, Methodologies and Applications that are Revolutionizing How We Create and Share Knowledge
Colleen Coggins, Chief Knowledge Officer, Interior
George Thomas, Chief Enterprise Architect, GSA
NIST Updates: Security Certification and Accreditation (800-37) and the Risk Management Framework
Dr. Ron Ross, Senior Computer Scientist, NIST
Achieving Business Transformation Through IT Infrastructure Segment Architecture
Peter Tseronis, Deputy Associate Chief Information Officer, Energy
Security & EA Collaboration at FEMA
Ira Grossman, Chief Enterprise Architecture, FEMA
Elisa Cruz, Chief Information Security Officer, FEMA
Engineering Data-Centric Services for a Connected World
Dr. Suzanne Acar, Principal Data Architect, FBI
Dave Kelly, Information Assurance Solutions Director, Citizant
Integrating EA, IT Strategic Planning and Enterprise Portfolio Management
Doreen Cox, Chief Architect, Customs & Border Protection, DHS
SaaS, The Federal Cloud, and Keeping It All Secure
Peter Mell, Cloud Computing Project Lead, Senior Computer Scientist, NIST
Dr. James Ransome, CISSP, CISM, Chief Security Officer for Cisco Collaborative Software Group (WebEx), Cisco Systems, Inc.
Information Sharing in a Net-Centric World: The Impact of Digital Convergence
Mary McCaffery, Senior Advisor, Assistant Administrator, EPA
John Sullivan, Chief Architect, EPA
Consensus Audit: A CISO Panel Discussion
Patrick Howard, Chief Information Security Officer, NRC
Dr. Scott Bernard, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, Federal Railroad Administration, Transportation
Building Effective, Secure Social Networking Programs
Marian Cody, Chief Information Security Officer, HUD
Dr. Sharon Fratta-Hill, Vice President of Academic Programs and Distance Education, Graduate School, USDA
Andrew Krzmarzick, Senior Project Coordinator, The Graudate School, USDA
The State of Federal Health IT Reform
Richard "Dick" Burk, Chair, Health IT Committee, GTRA
A Government-Wide Standard for EA Training
Walt Okon, Senior Enterprise Architect, DoD Enterprise Architecture & Standards Directorate, Defense
Identity Management & Authentication Challenges for External Business Users
Ylanda Ford, , Director, Enterprise Architecture, HUD
Security in a Virtual World
Dr. Robert "Rocky" Young, Associate Professor of Systems Management, NDU
Capt. Stephen Mancini, Information Operations and Assurance Department, NDU
Creating a Service Oriented Enterprise
Michael McFarren, Senior Principal, Information Systems Engineer, MITRE
Improving Personal and Organizational Performance Through Transformational Leadership
Dr. W. Stan Boddie, PMP, CISSP, Professor of Systems Management, Information Resource Management College, NDU
Next Generation Multi-Factor User Authentication
Dr. Len Mizrah, President & CEO, Authernative
Small Packages, Big Risk: Encrypt Mobile Data
John Jefferies, Vice President, Marketing, IronKey
Building a Federal Cloud
Greg Dupier, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
COLLABORATIVE ROUNDTABLE MEETINGS
Aligning Project Management with Enterprise Architecture
Michael Schievelbein, Program Manager and Solutions Architect, Solutions Coordination Office, National Business Center, Interior
Information Sharing for Agency Success
Dave Kelly, Information Assurance Solutions Director, Citizant
Securing Your Mobile Data
John Jefferies, Vice President Marketing, IronKey
Secure Unified Communications for Your Agency
Dr. James Ransome, CISSP, CISM, Chief Security Officer for Cisco Collaborative Software Group (WebEx), Cisco Systems, Inc.
Identity and Access Management to Secure Your Agency's Data
Dr. Len Mizrah, President & CEO, Authernative Inc.
A Cloud Computing Wargame
Greg Dupier, Senior Associate, Booz Allen Hamilton
Next Generation Vulnerability and Security Testing
Tom Kellermann, Vice President, Security Awareness, Core Security
Enabling IT to Meet Your Business Needs
Sonya Jain, President, eGlobalTech
Application Security Through Software Security Assurance
Keith Bodell, Vice President, Federal Sales, Fortify Software
Creating a Secure Mobile Workforce
Jason Kimrey, Director, Federal Sales, Intel
Sean Kenis, Director, Federal Sales, Lenovo
Building a High Performance SOA
Steve Thomas, Vice President, Government Operations, iTKO LISA
A Holistic Approach to Security
Mike Sherwood, Vice President, Sales, SecureWorks
Accelerating Your Agency's IT and Business Transformation
Matthew Gallagher, Vice President, Federal Solutions Group, Troux Technologies
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)