Rowley's primary mission isn't to build an organization but to eliminate stovepipes among agencies and create a culture of information security and trust.
Electronic communication is at the heart of every organization, but one compromised e-mail can damage your corporate brand, compromise intellectual property or put you in non-compliance with laws and industry regulations.
Do you want to explain to your customers how you lost control of their personal financial...
Agency chief information security offices make up most of the Federal CIO Council's Information Security and Identity Management Committee. 'This is clearly the forum where the CISOs are driving the answer,' committee co-chair Carey says.
Navy CIO Robert Carey was among the first federal CIOs to embrace blogging as a way to keep in touch with his various constituencies, including officers and sailors. Carey believes steps can be taken to embrace new technologies while maintaining security.
In this second of two parts of an exclusive interview,...
A new survey reveals the increased clout of agency CISOs, but IT security reform legislation would limit their visibility as agency leaders despite giving them more responsibilities.
Much ado has been made that tech-savvy President Obama appointed the federal government's first chief technology officer, Virginia Technology Secretary Aneesh Chopra.
But don't tell that to Norman Lorentz, a strategic adviser at the nonpartisan and not-for-profit Partnership for Public Service. Lorentz can lay...
President Obama's naming of federal chief performance and technology officers establishes a team that includes the CIO to develop and execute federal IT management and security policies.
A misnomer among some is that the federal Chief Information Officer Council is headed by the federal CIO.
According to the E-Government Act of 2002, the CIO technically the administrator of e-government and information technology serves as director of the CIO Council. But the top slot, chairman, goes to the deputy...
Information Security is among the top priorities for departmental and agency chief information officers, and no one knows that better than Navy CIO Robert Carey, who carries the double duty of co-chairing the federal CIO Council's Committee on Information Security and Identity Management.
In this first of two parts...
Navy CIO Robert Carey was among the first federal CIOs to embrace blogging as a way to keep in touch with his various constituencies, including officers and sailors. Carey believes steps can be taken to embrace new technologies while maintaining security.
In this second of two parts of an exclusive interview,...
Vivek Kundra hasn't been seen much in public since President Obama named him as the nation's first chief information officer in early March, but he's been busy working behind the scenes guiding the administration's IT agenda with agency and departmental CIOs and other government officials, says Navy CIO Robert Carey.
The Obama administration is getting set to sell its forthcoming cybersecurity initiative to the American public even before it's formalized.
The White House revealed Tuesday that Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, will speak before the...
A bill to establish a cabinet-level chief technology officer in the White House has been introduced by a northern Virginia congressman.
In a letter to colleagues seeking cosponsors for the measure, Rep. Gerald Connolly, D.-Va., says the legislation follows through on a campaign pledge by President Obama to...
With the launch of GovInfoSecurity.com comes the launch of my blog, The Public Eye.
First, a brief biography. I've been a journalist for too long. In my first job I used a manual typewriter and had a pair of sharp scissors and a paste pot on my desk.
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