-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 11/05/02 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:57:44 -0600 From: "NIPC Watch" <nipcwatch@private> To: "Information Technology" <information_technology@private> November 4, eWeek Feds getting IT together. Government security officials have begun a new era of interagency cooperation that has led to unprecedented levels of information sharing. And while the high-level meetings have strengthened government security capabilities, they have also highlighted shortcomings in a key part of the data gathering and analysis processes. The movement inside the government comes as the White House faces continued pressure to narrow the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace to focus on systems that are most vulnerable to terrorist threats. Security insiders say provisions for home computer users and small businesses should be revisited in a revised draft that is due to be released by the end of the year. As that debate continues, the heads of several federal security organizations-including the Federal Computer Incident Response Center, the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office and the National Infrastructure Protection Center-have begun meeting regularly to coordinate their activities and establish ground rules for information sharing. Source. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,666804,00.asp October 31, Federal Computer Week DOD official outlines IT challenges. As the military services continue to fight the first war of the Information Age, the Defense Department is making information technology a top priority - but not without major challenges, according to Paul Wolfowitz, deputy Defense secretary. Wolfowitz said DOD's younger, more IT-savvy personnel - which he dubbed the joystick generation - are making great strides in helping bring the military from the Industrial Age into the Information Age. This means a shift in focus from an overall mass of systems to networked, distributed forces with greater situational awareness. Much integration work remains to be done and because of the speed of technological innovations, Wolfowitz said it sometimes seems that for "every year we're catching up, we fall three more years behind." He spoke Oct. 30 at the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association's (GEIA) annual budget forecast conference in Tysons Corner, Va. Source. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1028/web-wolf-10-31-02.asp _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/information_technology
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