http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/091510-nsa-accreditations.html By Ellen Messmer Network World September 15, 2010 ORLANDO -- The National Security Agency wants to use commercially-built security products and the latest virtualization software. But the slow pace of getting products certified through NSA channels and the lightening fast pace of change in the IT industry is causing national-security heartburn. The high-tech spy agency, which also guides Defense Department information security, has become an enthusiastic proponent of open standards-based technologies such as Trusted Network Connect (TNC) and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) put forward by the organization Trusted Computing Group (which announced it expects to propose an end-to-end security framework for cloud computing around year-end). This week the secretive NSA held its first conference related to its views on trusted computing. The NSA Trusted Computing Conference and Exposition in Orlando drew about 500 attendees and 39 exhibiting companies. Michael Lamont, NSA chief of the network solutions office, noted in his keynote that since May of this year the national-security strategy has been "COTS [commercial off the shelf] first, not GOTS [government]." [...] _______________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Wed Sep 15 2010 - 22:50:17 PDT
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