Cloud Computing: DOD Deputy CIO – ‘Cybersecurity should vary by mission’
September 10, 2014
Grazed from FCW. Author: Cobly Hochmuth.
No "one size fits all" at the Pentagon. The different levels of mission risk at the Defense Department have posed a major challenge to building out DOD’s cybersecurity posture. Now, according to Deputy CIO Richard Hale, the department is working to make distinctions on the varying levels of risk by mission in order to make better decisions.
"Cybersecurity should vary by mission," Hale said in his keynote at the MeriTalk Cloud Computing Brainstorm event in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 10. "I shouldn’t spend as much money on morale and welfare website as I do on nuclear command control, it doesn’t make any sense."…
Everyone playing by one set of rules inhibits all kinds of things – especially movement to a cloud and mobile environment, Hale said…
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