Posted on 01/31/2017 10:20:08 AM PST by ColdOne
The president is expected to sign an executive order on cyber security at 3:15 p.m. The order will advise agency and department heads that they will be held accountable for cyber security, CBS News’ Mark Knoller reports.
Agency and department heads will be directed by the executive order to use the best practices from the private sector to enhance cyber security. They will also be required to prepare for the modernization of cyber security in their agencies.
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Well I’m heading down to Best Buy to riot and loot.
Anyone need some AAA batteries?
It is a shame he has to do this as a flipping EO.
It should have all been common sense!
But then, what do I know as I just received notification from NASA that my private information was accessible and likely breached. Oh so much yippie!!!
Oh, no! That’ll put all those service providers operating out of bathrooms out of business.
The private sector is a disaster. I would reword this to something like "stop using the worst practices from the private sector."
“They will also be required to prepare for the modernization of cyber security in their agencies.”
It’s beyond common sense. They don’t have the people capabilities to do things right, but also when you have lifers working there - they don’t give a crap and just want to collect their checks.
There needs to be a massive Infra upgrade and it’s about time. I was at a couple of Fed agencies during inauguration week and as we did our demo of our product, they were so resistant - they hate change and the added bit of work, it would entail to implement.
But, some of their people realize it would help secure assets better and faster than our competitors. Anyway, we’ve been asked to demo the product in DC and show it off again to many different groups.
You have to consider where they are starting from, bathroom servers and “password” for their password. I have more confidence that due diligence would uncover competence in the private sector than looking within the Government.
Alexa’s fault ....
Compared to pubsec, the private sector is a beacon of security!
I'll still never get past Hillary and her private SERVERS.
And after they knew they had been hacked...nothing changed??
Indeed, they thought they had the election sewed up.
Very smart management move. Delegate authority, and hold them directly responsible. The stupid will self terminate.
As I understand things, the Clinger-Cohen Act already required that this be the case. Post-Obama, I guess we have to assume that just because a bill is passed and signed into law, the Government doesn’t ACTUALLY have to obey the law. Therefore, this EO may, unfortunately, be necessary.
I would not expect to find competence and best practices from Anthem, Citibank, Adobe, Wordpress, or creators of trivial webpages that don't work unless a megabyte of potentially malicious active content is whitelisted in security plug-ins.
It’s going to take a while to move all the data off the floppy disks.
What is funny... all the government waste in spending yet they don’t pay IT security specialists as much as they make in the private sector. Hence why the government has trouble hiring good talent for government cyber security.
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