Cloud Computing: In 2015, agency IT security and operations converge

January 5, 2015 Off By David
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Grazed from GCN. Author: William Jackson.

Two powerful trends will shape the government cybersecurity agenda in the coming year, say security experts, but they have more to do with how government security is managed than what technologies will better defend agency systems.

First, cybersecurity will increasingly be integrated from the start into the platforms and software being acquired and developed by agencies. This means that perimeter defenses – already abandoned to the realm of what is necessary but inadequate – will receive less attention as cybersecurity becomes more integrated into the government infrastructure.

Also, cybersecurity will no longer be considered the exclusive province of the CISO or the CSO, but will become a professional requirement for everyone responsible for IT services to the agency. “As a security vendor, we are ending up in conversations with the IT shop,” rather than just the security shop, said Ken Ammon, chief strategy officer for Xceedium, an identity management company. “Next year will be the year of convergence.”…

That outlook is backed up by a study by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers and consulting firm Deloitte that found as CISO responsibilities evolve to include risk and compliance, many CISOs are also become accountable to a range of other areas. “CIOs and state leaders need to consider creative ways of allocating and managing these expanding responsibilities,” said NACIO…

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