IA in the News
Federal News Radio Interview with Marcia Weaver, ESM PMO
On 19 August 2008, Marcia Weaver, Chief, Enterprise Security Management (ESM) Program Management Office (PMO) was interviewed on Federal News Radio. She discussed ESM evolution, definitions, progress, and initiatives on the Federal Tech Talk program. (Listen to the interview)
Security is No Secret
Author: Joab Jackson
Original article published on GCN.com July 21,2008. Reprinted with permission.
NSA takes its Flask architecture to the open-source community to offer an inexpensive route to trusted systems. Architecture created by the National Security Agency and expanded with help from the open-source community will save the Defense Department and intelligence agencies millions in hardware costs. Analysts used to need multiple computers because they worked on separate machines for each classification level of data they accessed. Soon, users will be able to access data from a single console that could cost $500 or less, thanks to the NSA security architecture dubbed Flask. (View full "Security is No Secret" article)
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