CTOvision.com » DoD http://ctovision.com News, analysis and context on enterprise technology for the CTO Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:03:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Running the Gauntlet — Hacker Convention Prep Guide http://ctovision.com/2011/08/running-the-gauntlet-hacker-convention-prep-guide/ http://ctovision.com/2011/08/running-the-gauntlet-hacker-convention-prep-guide/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:15:25 +0000 BryanHalfpap http://ctovision.com/?p=13263

As the various intelligence agencies, computer security companies, and hackers prepare for the week of convention carnage that is Blackhat (Going on now), Defcon, and BSidesLV, it’s important to remember how easy it is for security professionals to end up on the dreaded “wall of sheep” (a very public listing of usernames and partially-redacted passwords pilfered from the network and displayed to all). It’s not considered a surprise to get hacked and infected while there — it’s almost expected.  You have to be aware of your surroundings while schmoozing with hackers of every nationality, background, and moral code.  You have to be prepared: mentally, physically, and digitally.

Mental Security:

Before wading into an event as socially oriented as Defcon, you should know what you can and can’t talk about.  People will understand if you can’t talk about something because of an NDA, but if you make it seem really juicy, you’re just making yourself a target and you probably shouldn’t have brought it up.  If you can’t say to yourself: “My boss/security officer would be OK with this.” then you probably shouldn’t talk about it. While one question does not constitute a security threat, you should always be wary of disclosing information on corporate IT infrastructure if someone seems less than on the level.

Physical Security:

In a community that rewards physical security intrusion prowess as much as it does digital intrusions (and any mix thereof) it pays to pay attention to physical security.  Make sure anything sensitive to you or your company’s Operational Security is under lock and key(pad).  If that means putting your laptop in a safe because it’s an unwiped work laptop, then that’s what you should do.  It’s not hard to trick hotel staff.

Items such as RFID cards, bluetooth devices without encryption, magstripe cards, and access tokens should be accounted for at all times, especially RFID cards, since they are easy to clone, even from a distance.  All of these things can significantly impact your security and the security of your employer if lost or stolen.  Unless absolutely nessecary, never bring RFID cards, Access or ID badges, or RSA tokens to a security conference — you might even be made an example of in a presentation if you do (it’s happened before).

Digital Security:

Updates:

This should be the most obvious to people, yet it never fails to be left undone.  Update everything and check the week before you go, just in case there is a last-minute update from a vendor affected by something at the conference.  You won’t want to be walking around with a vulnerable computer when everyone is looking for a target to test out the new exploit.

Encryption:

An oft-overlooked protection against theft is full disk encryption, but only when it’s used correctly.  If you set up encryption on your laptop, make sure that hibernation and suspend states are being protected by something as well.  Failing to do this could mean that all your preparation and encryption goes to waste if the computer is on while stolen.  Be sure to also encrypt any sensitive files on your phone and your USB drives.

Set Passwords:

Double-check that your operating system’s auto-login feature is disabled, that you don’t have passwords stashed away inside the battery bay of your laptop or phone, and that your phone is set to require a password.  Be sure to clean your touchscreen devices after entering your password so that a thief can’t use your fingerprints to determine the password.

Prevent Data Leakage:

Should you be crazy (or desperate) enough to use the wifi, be sure to use HTTPS connections with NO certificate errors.  Even with this precaution, don’t be too sure.  There have been several issues found in SSL implementations in programs in the past few years, and it’s best to be safe.  If you have to use the internet, use your mobile phone as a tether or use SSH encryption.

SSH Tunneling is a great way to stay secure on the road by using it as a tunnel to another server (assuming you have one that you wish to use).  Create a tunnel to shove your internet traffic through by creating a local proxy with the -D command-line option.  The syntax is ssh -D [PORT] [username]@[IP ADDRESS].  Then set the proxy settings on your browser of choice to “localhost” for the hostname of the proxy, and [PORT] for the port.  It’s a socks proxy, so be sure to select that option.  This method works on Windows using Cygwin or Putty as well as Linux.

SSH Tunnels encrypt your traffic to and from your server, ensuring the security of your local connection, so long as you heed any warnings about changed keys (this could mean someone is attempting to intercept your traffic).

Phones:

Install tracking software with remote wipe and backup capabilities.  Lookout is a great application for android that combines all the features together.  You’ll sleep easier knowing that if your phone is lost or stolen, you can still wipe it and have all your data offsite.

Security Checklist

Disable the following:

    • Any Ad-Hoc wireless network holdovers from XP (free public wifi, hpsetup, ect…) these can be used to connect to and take advantage of your computer in many nefarious ways.
    • Any phone wifi hotspots, unless you have WPA2 encryption with a strong password/passphrase.
    • Boot from CD (unless you are using a liveCD system)
    • Autorun (if not already disabled)
    • Any Unnecessary Services (Filesharing in particular)

Enable the Following:

    • Screensaver lock
    • BIOS passwords
    • Hard drive passwords

Mental:

    • Check NDA’s
    • Check materials being brought to conference.  Do I really need this USB drive to come with me?

Physical:

    • Are my RFID badges out of my wallet?
    • Are my ID badges out of my wallet?
    • Do I have to bring my authentication tokens?
      • Do I have a safe place to put my tokens in the hotel?

Digital:

    • Am I using an encrypted tunnel to the internet?
    • Are my thumbdrives encrypted?
    • Are my devices encrypted?
    • Did I do updates the same week I leave?
    • Are all the applications up-to-date, including my Antivirus?
    • Do I have login passwords set and required for all my devices?

Potential Rookie Mistakes:

If you want to go a notch above secure and just below paranoid, some people recommend that you use non-persistent liveCD operating systems booted from USB.  I do NOT recommend this as they are usually at least somewhat out-of-date and can’t be updated (because they are non-persistent, even on USB).

Stay safe out there!

 

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Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E)

Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E)

The Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) is an overarching construct for integrating operational intelligence capabilities in support of DoD missions. This community is closely related to the DoD Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) community, but the focus here is more on the operational military. Here is a bit from the DI2E conference site:

The first Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) Worldwide Conference & Technology Exposition will take place at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion. The theme of this year’s conference is “Converging the Enterprise”. The DI2E is the logical integration of the successes of the Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) and Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC) Enterprises to support our defense, national, and international partners with all-source intelligence and counterintelligence.

The 2011 DI2E Worldwide Conference and Technology Demonstration brings together developers, program offices, and users to focus on how to best deliver a professional, fully integrated, and seamless Enterprise. This Enterprise will provide the best intelligence, counterintelligence, and security information under any condition or circumstance, whenever and wherever, in support of the warfighter, coalition and the national intelligence requirements.

This is a great conference for learning about emerging mission needs in this domain.

To get more info and to register see: http://www.ncsi.com/di2e11/index.html

The agenda is below:

Morning Session – Strategic Perspectives

Enhance awareness of how JIOC, DCGS and IC initiatives are key enablers to effective implementation of information sharing within the broader Defense Intelligence and Command and Control Enterprises.

0750 – 0800

Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson
Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command
0800 – 0815

Guest Speaker

Mayor Dwaine Carawary
Mayor of Dallas, Texas
0815 – 0900

ISR and the Operational Commander

General Raymond T. Odierno
United States Army, Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command
0900 – 0945

Warfare in the 21st Century

Major General (P) Michael T. Flynn
Special Assistant to Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, United States Army
0945 – 1030

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1030 – 1200

Strategic Perspectives from CSA’s

Moderator:
Mr. Kevin P. Meiners
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Portfolio, Programs, and Resources, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Panel Member:
Mr. Grant M. Schneider
Deputy Director for Information Management and Chief Information Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency
Major General Theodore C. Nicholas
Deputy Director, Signals Intelligence Directorate, National Security Agency
Mr. David Bennett
Program Executive Officer, Global Information Grid Enterprise Services
Mr. Paul E. Muench
Deputy Chief Information Officer, National Geospatial – Intelligence Agency
1200 – 1300

Technology Exposition/Lunch

1300 – 1345

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Keith Barber
Implementation Lead for “On-Line, On-demand” Services, National Geospatial – Intelligence Agency
1345 – 1515

Panel Presentation: Services Panel

Moderator:
Ms. Mary Lynn Schnurr
Senior Technical Advisor, Army Intelligence Chief Information Officer, Information Management, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2 Headquarters, Department of the Army
Panel Members:
Mr. Robert “Bo” T. Marlin
Deputy Director, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Capabilities, United States Air Force
Major General (P) Michael T. Flynn
Special Assistant to Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, United States Army
Mr. James T. Simpson
Principal Deputy for Intelligence, Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence, United States Navy
Mr. Eric S. Downes
Enterprise Information Management Office and Chief Information Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
1515 – 1600

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1600 – 1645

Workshop Sessions

  1. Workshop #1: NGA’s NSG Expeditionary Architecture (NEA) — Current and Future Capabilities

    Mr. Jay Driscoll

    Program Manager, NSG Expeditionary Architecture, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

    Breakout discussions on the current and future expeditionary architecture to include discussions on: NSG Video Services (NVS), coalition information sharing (Afghan Mission Network), and unclassified information sharing via the Protected Internet Exchange (PIX).

  2. Workshop #2: DI2E Framework

    Panel Moderator:
    Mr. Kevin West

    Deputy Director, Enterprise Programs, ISR Programs Directorate, Office of the Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

    Panel Members:
    Mr. Ed Lane

    Program Officer, National Reconnaissance Office

    Mr. John Snevely

    DCGS Family of Systems, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence) – ISR Programs

    This breakout session will discuss how the DI2E framework fits into the overall Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E). In addition, it will provide insight into the systems and processes that will be used to build, field and sustain the DI2E framework. Finally, the session will discuss the relationship of the DI2E Framework to emerging national level capabilities.

  3. Workshop #3: DI2E and Human Derived Intelligence: the Challenge, the Opportunity

    Mr. Kelly Hughes

    Deputy Chief, Office of Technology, Defense Counterintelligence and HUMINT Center, Defense Intelligence Agency

    Panel Member:
    Ms. Sarah Klingensmith

    Chief, Architect & Integration Division

    The Defense Counterintelligence and HUMINT Center (DCHC) Office of Technology (DXT) is uniting counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) stakeholders to collaboratively design a CI and HUMINT IT architecture that supports “unity of effort, integration and interoperability”. This cooperative approach for those working with human domain data helps ensure this critical and timely data is available to Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms for tasking, posting, discovery, sharing, processing, exploitation, access and dissemination. The workshop will focus on human domain information sharing requirements, the current and future operational environment, and the impact of technological change. Current DXT integration and interoperability efforts will also be discussed to ensure the support enduring of human domain capabilities.

  4. Workshop #4: DCGS OUFT — Operational Users Forum, An Introduction to Enterprise Mission Threads

    Mr. Keithon Grigsby

    DCGS Operational Users Focus Team Lead, United States Joint Forces Command

    The Operational Users Focus Team (OUFT) is a corner stone of the DCGS governance structure and acts as the primary link between the enterprise and the Joint Task Force Commander (and below). The OUFT reviews joint policy, CONOPS, standards, business processes, and TTPs for their impact on the DCGS enterprise and or operational users through continuous interface with COCOMs, Services, CSA’s, National Agencies, and multi-national partners. This breakout session will provide a forum for the OUFT, operators and users to discuss the development of business processes/mission threads which guide the transformation of the DoD DCGS Enterprise.

  5. Workshop #5: AFPAK Lessons Learned

    Mr. Irving “Mac” Townsend Jr.

    Senior Technology Officer for Data Management, Defense Intelligence Agency

    Short and long term solutions to intelligence sharing and collaboration problems for the AFPAK mission begun in FY10 as part of USD(I) ISR TF Information Sharing for Afghanistan initiatives have helped us to codify mechanisms to solve these problems for AFPAK and at any COCOM for operational and humanitarian missions. Stand up of specialized networks (classified and unclassified), interaction with coalition partners, movement of data within and between networks, discovery of data, database interaction, cloud interaction, and knowledge management to bridge the understanding of technology as it specifically applies to the mission are all capability facets addressed to holistically solve these problems. Finally, in conjunction with the DI2E Framework, incorporation of an overall architectural framework that originally leveraged existing IC data layer and DCGS-IC components was developed as the framework to ensure that current and future AFPAK.

  6. Workshop #6: COCOM/JIOC Challenges, Gaps & Requirements

    Mr. Mark S. Chandler

    Senior Advisor, Warfighter Support, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

    Provide status updates on deployment of the DI2E Framework to USSOUTHCOM/USCENTCOM, formulation of the JIOC Functional Requirements Document, followed by discussions on COCOM challenges, IT Gaps/Requirements.

  7. Workshop #7: DCGS-A: Empowering the Warfighter through Advanced Technology

    Moderators:
    Colonel Timothy P. Hill

    Director of Futures, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command

    Colonel Charles A. Wells

    Project Manager, Distributed Common Ground System – Army

    Colonel Edward Riehle

    TRADOC Capabilities Manager, Sensor Processing

    DCGS-A serves as the Army’s foundation layer for ISR data and is the Army’s Cornerstone system for Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination. This breakout session covers DCGS-A’s use of cutting-edge technologies such as Cloud computing and advanced analytics in order to achieve precision search and analysis on huge data sets in near-real time. The discussion includes an update on the Army’s move to an objective Cloud architecture and other efforts to leverage cutting-edge technology in support of the Warfighter.

  8. Workshop #8: Standard Profile Practices — A Quantum Leap for Enabling Capabilities

    Mr. James Feagans

    Office of the Director of National Intelligence IC-CIO/ICEA, Chief IC Enterprise Standards and Governance PM

    The need for interoperability and validated solutions prior to global events is now more than ever fundamental to Joint Operating Environments. The DNI/CIO and DoD/CIO is actively partnering to establish standards based profiling practice that allows technical solutions to be exposed, reused and recombined in an agile, modular quick delivery manner. This workshop introduces the discipline of standards based profiling as an International Standards Organization (ISO) practice, the Joint DoD/IC governance process and an overview of the ER2 tool suite that’s providing advanced capabilities for developers, acquisition and program managers the IC Standards Repository.

  9. Workshop #9: Tactical Users Breakout Panel

    Moderator:
    Lieutenant Colonel Michael F. Garcia

    Assistant TRADOC Capabilities Manager – Sensor Processing

    Panel Members:
    Sergeant First Class Charles Buman

    Knowledge Manager, 513th Military Intelligence Brigade

    Sergeant First Class Morgan Brady

    Knowledge Manager, 470th Military Intelligence Brigade

    This panel presents tactical user/operational support personnel DCGS-A experiences. Panel members will describe successes/challenges experienced as operational users with focus on the tactical edge. They will highlight how today’s technologies are enabling current efforts and future technology requirements. Attendees will have the opportunity to take part in a question/answer session.

Morning Session — User Perspectives

Provide a forum for exchange of ideas, enterprise level transformation activities, the roles of our coalition partners, and an opportunity to explore the full spectrum of DI2E related initiatives.

0750 – 0800

Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson
Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command
0800 – 0830

Keynote Speaker

Brigadier General Brian J. Donahue
Director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computer Systems, United States Central Command/J6

United States contribution to the Afghanistan Mission Network has enabled the supported CJFT CDR’s intent – changing the coalition operational norm in AFG by enabling a true coalition fight. CENTCOM believes this is not a niche requirement for this current fight in AFG – it is the new national norm and must become part of the CENTCOM manned posture.

0830 – 0945

Panel Presentation: COCOM/JIOC Panel

Moderator:
Mr. Mark S. Chandler
Senior Advisor, Warfighter Support, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Panel Members:
Mr. Robert T. Hunt
Deputy Director (Support), Joint Intelligence Operations Center U.S. European Command (JIOCEUR)
Mr. John A. Marshall
Chief Technology Officer, J2, United States Joint Forces Command
Captain Joseph B. Spegele
Deputy Director of Intelligence for North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command
Colonel David J. Gibson
Division Chief, Intelligence Operations Division, Intelligence Directorate, United States Transportation Command
Mr. Michael N. Schulman
United States Strategic Command Assistant J2 for Intelligence Support & Chief, Defense Intelligence Agency Forward Element
Mr. Bill “Rod” Moore
Deputy Director of Intelligence, United States Central Command
Captain Bruce F. Loveless
Commander, Joint Intelligence Operations Center, United States Pacific Command
Mr. Konrad J. Trautman
Director of Intelligence, United States Southern Command
Mr. Russell W. Horton
Chief of Intelligence Transformation, United States Forces Korea
Mr. David N. Singley
Chief, Enterprise Integration and Information Sharing Division, Deputy Directorate for Warfighter Support and Integration Directorate for Intelligence, J2
Mr. Gary H. Thompson
Deputy Director, Directorate of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance, United States Southern Command
Colonel Mike Ellert-Beck
Joint Intelligence Operations Center Director, United States Cyber Command

Panelists will discuss operations in their theater, how DI2E/IT supports their operations, and what their primary requirements are; this will be followed by free-flowing discussions with the audience.

0945 – 1030

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1030 – 1200

Panel Presentation: Information Sharing & Interoperability of Services/Applications

Moderator:
Mr. Neill Tipton
Director, Information Sharing and Partner Engagement, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Panel Members:
Dr. Ann M. Carbonell
Director, National System for Geospatial-Intelligence Expeditionary Architecture, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Mr. Mark S. Chandler
Senior Advisor, Warfighter Support, Joint and Coalition Warfighter Support, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Ms. Annette L. Redmond
Special Advisor for Enterprise Intelligence Operations, Army Intelligence & Security Command
Mr. James Harris
Chief, Office of Enterprise Management, Defense Intelligence Agency
1200 – 1300

Technology Exposition/Lunch

Afternoon Session

Providing a framework through the DI2E Community for interoperability with all COCOMs, CSAs, DoD, and the IC for the purposes of disseminating discoverable and reusable services through web applications.

1300 – 1430

Panel Presentation: Warfighter — The Tactical Perspective

Panel Moderator:
Colonel Barry Harris
Commander, 513th Military Intelligence Brigade, Intelligence and Security Command
Panel Members:
Colonel Paul D. Nelson
Commander, 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing, Langley Air Force Base
Mr. Duane “Dewey” Dannewitz
Director of Capabilities Integration for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command’s Joint Training Counter-IED Operations and Integration Center and Training Brain Operations Center
Mr. Vincent Kapral
Senior Intelligence Technical Advisor and Intelligence Product Lead for Readiness, Modernization, Training, and Assessments, Navy Cyber Forces
Captain Christy Whitfield
DCS, G-2, Plans Officer, United States Army Special Operations Command
Colonel John M. Altman
Chief of the Technology Division, for the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2, in the Headquarters, Department of the Army, Pentagon
Mr. Bernard D. Rogan
Chief Knowledge Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity
1430 – 1515

Technology Exposition/Networking Break

1515 – 1630

Panel Presentation: Coalition Panel

Moderator:
Mr. Richard Radcliffe
Director for International Technology and Architectures, Information and Partner Engagement Directorate, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Joint and Coalition Warfigther Support, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Panel Members:
Mr. Chad Hodgens
Director Battlespace Awareness, Joint Capability Coordination Division, Vice Chief of Defence Group, Australian Department of Defence
Commander Peter Kwant
Branch Head C4ISR, Department Operational Policy, Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Royal Netherlands Navy
Lieutenant Colonel David A. Quick
Chief of Defence Intelligence, J2 Force Development, Canadian Forces
Mr. Terrance J. Meyer
Intelligence Chief Information Officer, United States Central Command
1630 – 1715

Workshop Sessions

  1. Workshop #1: NGA Initiatives for Improving Motion Imagery Interoperability and Usage

    Mr. Donnie Self

    Chief, Sensor Assimilation Division, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

    With the constant and insatiable demand for motion imagery, the session will cover NGA’s vision for motion imagery as well as NGA’s best practices and experiences implementing a motion imagery capability including working with the commercial broadcast industry. Additional topics to be covered include motion imagery interoperability & standards and their importance.

  2. Workshop #2: Next Generation Risk & Acceptance (R&A) Related to Secure Trusted Cloud Computing

    Moderators:
    Mr. Rob Vietmeyer

    Cloud Computing Lead in the Enterprise Services & Integration, Office of the Department of Defense (CIO)

    Mr. Todd G. Myers

    Chief Technology Advisor, NSG Expeditionary Architecture, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

    The purpose of this panel session is to elaborate on current R&A and the requirement to establish two distinct processes to R&A the physical infrastructure independent from the virtual hosted services in order to provide a trusted state compute and application hosting not bound to the physical infrastructure in order to serve on-demand and self-service mission needs across DoD and the IC.

  3. Workshop #3: Activity Based Intelligence

    Mr. William T. Roberts

    Chief, Analysis & Applications Division, InnoVision Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

    The impending exponential increase in data resulting from the flood of full motion video sensors and emergence of gigapixel-class sensors in theater demands a new analytic paradigm to effectively and efficiently provide support to ongoing operations. This session will take a look at the solution—ABI, enabled by extracting the activities of interest from the raw data streams and disseminating in standards-compliant formats, combined with advanced analytics and assistive, automated exploitation capabilities providing alerts and notifications thereby reducing data discovery and allowing analysts to focus their efforts on higher level problems.

  4. Workshop #4: Industry Advisory Group (IAG)

    Moderator: Mr. Dave Chesebrough

    President, Association for Enterprise Information

    The DCGS Industry Advisory group will hold a workshop on modes and methods of industry engagement with DCGS/DI2E. Industry and government representatives will identify and discuss topics that address enterprise aspects of DCGS and the evolving intelligence information enterprise.

  5. Workshop #5: CSA and Reserve Compnenet (RC) IT Way Ahead and Interoperability with DI2E

    Mr. Thomas Tucker

    Senior Analyst, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Warfighter Support, Warfighter Requirements and Evaluation Directorate, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

    This session will provide status update of CSA & RC IT capability integration into the DI2E, their interoperability with COCOM/JIOC operations/architecture followed by associated discussions.

  6. Workshop #6: Identity and Access Management Panel

    Moderator: Mr. Ron Spear

    Senior Enterprise Engineer, DCGS Enterprise Activation Team – DCGS Multi-Service Execution Team Management Office (DMO)

    Panel Members:
    Mr. Gregory C. Hall

    Co-Chair of the Authorization and Attribute Services Committee, ODNI CIO

    Mr. Arthur R. Friedman

    Senior Strategist for Privilege Management, OASD(NII / DASD IIA

    Mr. Jeff Gilliatt

    Chief Engineer, DCGS Multi-Service Execution Team (MET) Office (DMO)

    Discover progress and challenges to identity management and allowing access or not based on that identity, which are fundamental to balance the need-to-protect with the responsibility-to-provide. The panel will share insight from a policy, standards, and technical point of view into DoD and IC intelligence information enterprise identity and access management.

  7. Workshop #7: The DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB): Data Services Layer of the DI2E Architecture

    Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Tschour

    Director, Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) Multi-Service Execution Team (MET) Office (DMO), Intelligence and Special Programs Division, AFPEO C2ISR Directorate, Electronic Systems Center, Hanscom Air Force Base

    The DCGS enterprise established a baseline infrastructure and common services among the DCGS Programs of Record called the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB). The DIB will be leveraged as the data layer of the DI2E to enable intelligence sharing among DCGS, the Joint Intelligence Operations Centers (JIOCs) and the Intelligence Community as well as coalition partners. Topics will include:

    • Metadata development, test and management
    • The DIB Evolution to the DI2E Data Framework with MTS demo.
  8. Workshop #8: Building “The Big” Enterprise: Information Sharing Across Communities

    Moderator:
    Ms. Lorraine Wilson

    Director for Enterprise Engineering and Knowledge Management, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence

    This panel will look at the design considerations, constraints and imperatives as we collectively engineer the information enterprise to enable sharing information across many communities, with many customers, who have very different mission needs. The DOD and the DNI have information sharing initiatives underway to meet their community and customer specific needs. USD(I) has established the DI2E which is meant to further articulate the information sharing framework for the Military Intelligence Community in order to ensure intelligence information (both traditional and non-traditional intelligence) is available to support the full spectrum of operations, planning and decision-making activities; from strategic to tactical; from the highest levels of classification to the unclassified security domains.

    The challenge for the DI2E is that it must be consistent with DOD CIO and DISA as well as the national Intelligence Community directions. This panel will focus on those intersection areas that are most critical to creating a broad information sharing environment that supports the DOD/IC missions and will highlight the particularly challenging issues or those most critical to taking this from a “Powerpoint” discussion to real capability.

    User Perspectives

Inspire new thinking — the roles industry can play in assisting in the area acquisition of services, capability metrics, and rapid delivery of solutions to the Warfighter.

0800 – 0805

Welcoming Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson
Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command
0805 – 0850

Using an Integrated Framework Approach to Manage An Enterprise

Mr. Robert W. Noonan
Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

In order for the Department to develop, field, and manage the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, it needs to look beyond the latest technology. Five critical areas of focus, Policy, People, Operations, Technology, Management; are essential to successful enterprise mission accomplishment.

0850 – 1020

Panel Presentation: Industry Leaders Panel

Moderator:
Mr. Robert W. Noonan
Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Panel Members:
Mr. Andras Szakal
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM United States Federal
Mr. Steven Lefrancois
Chief Technology Officer, Verizon Federal, Verizon Business
Mr. David Fastabend
Vice President, Advanced Information Systems, ITT Information Systems
Mr. Edward Bush
Vice President, C4ISR Networked Systems (CNS), Northrop Grumman
Mr. Brian I. Geehan
General Manager, Department of Defense Services, Microsoft
Mr. John D. Thomas
Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intelligence Systems, SAIC

The panel is composed of leaders from across industry that are providing the technology that is at the heart of the intelligence information enterprise, and for whom robust enterprise capabilities are a matter of extreme importance, both for their own operations and those of the clients they serve. The panel will explore the imperatives, strategies, potential roadblocks and pathways for success for DI2E as they consider the real challenges faced in creating a fully integrated and seamless enterprise. Panelists will relate the DI2E strategy to their experiences with their own companies and customers.

1020 – 1035

Break

1035 – 1150

Panel Presentation: Emerging Technologies Panel — Cloud Technologies

Moderator:
Mr. John Marshall
Chief Technology Officer, Joint Intelligence Directorate, United States Joint Forces Command
Panel Participants:
Mr. Thomas Preston
Solutions Program Manager, Global Government Solutions and Corporate Security Programs, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Dr. Albert N. (Chip) Copper III, Ph.D.
Principal Engineer, Brocade Communications Systems Inc.
Mr. Lewis Shepherd
Director of The Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments (MSI)
Colonel Charles A. Wells
Project Manager, Distributed Common Ground System — Army
Mr. Robert Gourley
Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Crucial Point, LLC
Ms. Lorraine Wilson
Director, Enterprise Engineering and Knowledge Management, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Mr. Joseph A. Smith
Technical Executive, Sensor Assimilation Division, Acquisition Directorate, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Ms. Jackie George
Cloud Program Manager, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Panel Members both from government and industry will discuss current cloud technologies being employed within the community and industry. The panel will address how cloud technologies are enabling the community to share information more easily in a cloud environment. Industry panelist will focus on next generation technologies that will change our everyday lives.

1150 – 1235

Enterprise Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Alignment

Mr. George H. Labovitz, Ph.D.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ODI and Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior, Boston University Graduate School of Management
1235 – 1245

Closing Remarks

Mr. Christopher B. Jackson
Deputy Chief, ISR Integration, Experimentation, and System Support Division (J28), United States Joint Forces Command

 

 

 

 

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Big Data Challenges Driving DoD Research Agenda

Big Data Challenges Driving DoD Research Agenda

The Secretary of Defense signed a memorandum on 19 April 2011 which articulates the Science and Technology (S&T) priorities for the Department of Defense (DoD). This memo flows from extensive planning including reviews of all defense missions and architectures to support those missions. The result: seven S&T priorities have been identified for strategic investment.

These seven priorities are:

(1) Data to Decisions - science and applications to reduce the cycle time and manpower requirements for analysis and use of large data sets.

(2) Engineered Resilient Systems - engineering concepts, science, and design tools to protect against malicious compromise of weapon systems and to develop agile manufacturing for trusted and assured defense systems.

(3) Cyber Science and Technology - science and technology for efficient, effective cyber capabilities across the spectrum of joint operations.

(4) Electronic Warfare / Electronic Protection - new concepts and technology to protect systems and extend capabilities across the electro-magnetic spectrum.

(5) Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) - advances in DoD’s ability to locate, secure, monitor, tag, track, interdict, eliminate and attribute WMD weapons and materials.

(6) Autonomy - science and technology to achieve autonomous systems that reliably and safely accomplish complex tasks, in all environments.

(7) Human Systems - science and technology to enhance human-machine interfaces to increase productivity and effectiveness across a broad range of missions

The CTOvision blog will use these seven priorities to continue to inform our writing and analysis. We have already been focusing on Big Data topics that are directly relevant to all of these S&T areas and will continue to do so. Several of these topics are also closely related to Cyber Security, which has long been a focus area of this site.

We have a few immediate recommendations that flow from this memo:

  • If you oversee technology activities at an integrator serving in the DoD market, this memo should help you build your roadmap of R&D efforts. The Pentagon is also building investment roadmaps but the R&D spending you can influence in your company may generate capabilities that accelerate DoD capabilities faster and may result in significant enhancements to the nation’s defense capabilities.
  • If you serve DoD by providing solutions, you should immediately invest time in learning and implementing solutions based on the stack of capabilities in the Hadoop Framework. For some ideas on how see Common Hadoopable Problems.
  • You will find continued articulation of use cases for Big Data, including use cases that flow from this DoD S&T agenda, in the Government Big Data Newsletter. Please sign up to receive this letter and stay in tune with these mission needs.
  • Learn more about how you can reduce the cycle time and manpower requirements for the analysis of and use of large data sets by tapping into the wealth of free information at Cloudera.
]]> http://ctovision.com/2011/05/big-data-is-critical-to-the-dod-science-and-technology-investment-agenda/feed/ 1 CNO Part 1: Computer Network Exploitation http://ctovision.com/2011/05/cno-part-1-computer-network-exploitation/ http://ctovision.com/2011/05/cno-part-1-computer-network-exploitation/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 19:37:01 +0000 Dillon Behr http://ctovision.com/?p=12701

This is the first part in my series about Computer Network Operations (CNO).  Again, I welcome any and all discussion on the matter and hope that this post will help educate our readers and encourage dialogue between them.

  • Computer Network Exploitation (CNE): Includes enabling actions and intelligence collection via computer networks that exploit data gathered from target or enemy information systems or networks. Joint Pub 3-13

CNE, which can include cyber-espionage, has many advantages at the strategic, operational, and the tactical levels.  Strategically, an adversary may find it more beneficial to collect data against us rather than make an offensive move against us, for fear of retaliation.  Again, a vulnerability in our network is an open door for another to come take information.  This is generally physically harmless, but the amount of information that walks out the door daily is staggering and it adds up.

This has been one of the biggest problems that the U.S. has had to deal with in recent years, as witnessed during the release of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables over the Wikileaks website last summer.  China and other countries steal our government and our industry secrets every day.  Of course, that is not to say that we aren’t stealing theirs as well, but we need to continue to become better, while getting better at securing our own information.

In an excerpt from the book Toward a Theory of Space Power: Selected Essays, Benjamin Lambeth, a RAND researcher, says “unlike the air and space environments, cyberspace is the only military operating area in which the United States already has peer competitors in place and hard at work.”[1] Naturally, most hold China to be our main competitor in this arena, and in fact most other areas as well, but there are and will be other adversaries, state-level and below, that have designs on exploiting the United States through the cyber domain.  What are some strategies that we should seek to continue growing in this area?

[1] Lambeth, B. (2011). Airpower, space, and cyberwar. JFQ, (60), Retrieved from http://www.ndu.edu/press/lib/images/jfq-60/JFQ60_46-53_Lambeth.pdf

 

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The US CapitalWant the recipe for a real government shutdown? Combine 30% annual data growth, an explosion of virtual data, and an outdated federal back-up infrastructure. Adding more storage is not fixing the problem. But what’s the alternative? According to a new survey from CTOlabs.com and Carahsoft, there are numerous forward-thinking government IT professionals using data duplication technologies to manage virtual machines, optimize infrastructures, and enhance disaster recovery and continuity.

Join Federal Computer Week for this complimentary webcast to gain insights into how overwhelmed agencies are turning the tables on data redundancy including:

• Why forward-thinking federal agencies are embracing this game-changing technology;
• Current strategies, hurdles, and best practices for protecting, managing and replicating mission critical data and
• Key take-aways from survey findings.

Speaker:

Bob Gourley, The Founder of CTOlabs.com

Bob Gourley is the founder of CTOlabs.com, a provider of technology concept development, vendor evaluations and technology assessments focused on enterprise grade technologies. Mr. Gourley’s first career was as a naval intelligence officer, which included operational tours afloat and shore. He was the first J2 at DoD’s cyber defense organization JTF-CND. Following retirement from the Navy, Mr. Gourley was a senior executive with TRW and Northrop Grumman, and then returned to government service as the Chief Technology Officer of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Gourley was named one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the globe by InfoWorld in 2007, and selected for AFCEA’s award for meritorious service to the intelligence community in 2008. He was named by Washingtonian magazine as one of DC’s “Tech Titans” in 2009; and one of the “Top 25 Most Fascinating Communicators in Government IT” by the Gov2.0 community GovFresh.

He holds three masters degrees, including a master of science degree in scientific and technical intelligence from the Naval Postgraduate School, a Master of Science degree in military science from USMC University, and a Master of Science degree in computer science from
James Madison University.

Moderator:

Steve Lesueur, 1105 Editorial Contributor

Date: May 12, 2011

Time: 2:00 PM ET

Duration: 1 hour

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The DoDIIS Conference Agenda is now up at the conference site, and it really looks to be a great one. The confernece will be great for technology leaders in government, technology providers from industry, and the mission-focused executive leadership who seeks to guide both. If you want to shape the future, come to the DoDIIS conference and see what secure enterprises with advanced analytical missions are up to.

I’ve pasted the full agenda below, but some key highlights include:

  • An overview by DIA’s CIO and Director of DS, Mr. Grant Schneider.
  • Insights into secure collaboration provided by Mr. John “Mike” McConnell, former Director of National Intelligence and a mentor to legions of us who have long revered him.
  • An overview of the mission needs put on the DIA technology team, provided by the Director of DIA Lieutenant General Ron Burgess.
  • Insights into the human element of the system provided by noted professor and thinker Robert Axelrod.
  • Deep dives into successes in innovation and information sharing, “CIA Style” presented by champion innovator Mr. Geoffrey Fowler, Director and Managing Editor of the World Intelligence Review (WIRe).
  • Many breakout sessions are scheduled, including a wide range of mission-focused topics and advanced technology deep dives. I personally plan on hitting the ones on Hadoop (of course, since “Big Data” is an issue we should all be accelerating into our enterprise). I’ll also attend the “Data Center for the Future” talk since DoDIIS planners are always at the forefront of datacenter design and I’m sure I’ll pick up some good tips there.  I also noticed a breakout on the “Egyptian Revolution and Twitter” that might be insightful.

I hope to run into about 2000 of my friends at the event. I’ll also be blogging a bit from there, as will Ryan Kamauff and Chris Barnes.  And look for us on Twitter as well. We are at: @bobgourley, @Ryan_Kamauff, @ChrisBarnesCP

And, consider this a pre-announcement: we are putting the finishing touches on a site meant to pull together our evals of DoDIIS technology and twitter feeds/etc during the event. Find it at http://dodiistech.com

For more details and to register see: http://www.ncsi.com/dodiis11/index.html

Here is the DoDIIS agenda:

Sunday 1 May

Evening reception/strategy sessions/networking.

Monday 2 May

0750 – 0800

Announcements

0800 – 0830

Keynote Speaker

Mr. Grant M. Schneider Deputy Director for Information Management and Chief Information Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency

0830 – 0915

Secure Collaboration — Technology to Support the Mission

Mr. John “Mike” McConnell Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

0915 – 1000

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1000 – 1045

Keynote Speaker

Lieutenant General Ronald L. Burgess, Jr.Director, Defense Intelligence Agency

1100 – 1145

Vulnerabilities of Wetware Professor Robert Axelrod Walgreen Professor for the Study of Human Understanding, University of Michigan

1145 – 1300

Networking Break/Technology Exposition/Lunch

1300 – 1345

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1400 – 1445

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1445 – 1545

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1545 – 1630

Breakouts / Learning Labs

Tuesday 3 May

0750 – 0800

Announcements

0800 – 0845

The Real Business Value of IT: How CIOs Create and Communicate Value

Mr. Richard Hunter Vice President Distinguished Analyst, Gartner

0845 – 0930

Disruptive Innovation in Computing, and Mission Impact in the Next Decade

Mr. David McQueeney Vice President of Software Research, IBM

0930 – 1030

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1030 – 1115

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1130 – 1215

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1215 – 1330

Networking Break/Technology Exposition/Lunch

1330 – 1415

Potential for Two-Way Collaboration

Mr. Terry Kline Vice President and Chief Information Officer, General Motors

1415 – 1515

IC Executive Board: Integrating the Intelligence Mission through Technology

Moderator:
Mr. Al Tarasiuk Assistant Director of National Intelligence and Chief Information Officer, Intelligence Community
Panelists:
Mr. James Beagles Acting Director, Chief Information Officer, Department of Homeland Security
Mr. David DeVries Principal Director, Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
Mr. Dean E. Hall Associate Executive Assistant Director and Deputy Chief Information Officer, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Mr. Kelly A. Miller Deputy Chief Information Officer, National Security Agency/Central Security Service
Mr. Paul E. Muench Deputy Chief Information Officer, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Mr. Grant M. Schneider Deputy Director for Information Management and Chief Information Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency
Mr. Neill Tipton Director, Information Sharing and Partner Engagement, Department of Defense
Ms. Jill Tummler Singer Chief Information Officer, National Reconnaissance Office
Ms. Jeanne C. Tisinger Chief Information Officer, Central Intelligence Agency

1515 – 1615

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1615 – 1700

Breakouts / Learning Labs

Wednesday 4 May

0750 – 0800

Announcements

0800 – 0845

Unifying Intelligence Strategies — The Central, Critical Node to Achieving Integrated Intelligence

Mr. Robert Cardillo Deputy Director for Intelligence Integration, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

0845 – 0930

Innovation in Information Sharing — CIA Style

Mr. Geoffrey K. Fowler
Director and Managing Editor, World Intelligence Review (WIRe), Central Intelligence Agency

0930 – 1030

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1030 – 1130

Services Panel: Secure and Collaborative Intelligence to Support the Warfighter

Panel Moderator: Mr. James R. Martin Director, ISR Programs, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence)
Panel Members:
Mr. Robert “Bo” T. Martin Deputy Director, ISR Capabilities, U.S. Air Force
Mr. Gregory B. Palmertree Chief Technology Officer, Marine Corps Intelligence
Ms. Lynn Schnurr Senior Technical Advisor, Army Intelligence Chief Information Officer, Information Management, Deputy Chief of Staff, G2 Headquarters, Department of the Army
Mr. Jack Y. Gumtow Chief Information Officer, Office of Naval Intelligence

1130 – 1215

The Path to Secure and Agile Cloud Computing

Mr. Michael Capellas Chairman and CEO, VCE, The Virtual Computing Environment Company

1215 – 1315

Networking Break/Technology Exposition/Lunch

1315 – 1400

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1415 – 1500

Breakouts / Learning Labs

1500 – 1545

Networking Break/Technology Exposition

1545 – 1630

Breakouts / Learning Labs

Thursday 5 May

0750 – 0800

Announcements

0800 – 0845

NIST Cloud Computing Program: Useful Information for USG Cloud Adopters

Ms. Dawn Leaf Senior Advisor, National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Technology Laboratory and Senior Executive for Cloud Computing

0845 – 0930

Keynote Speaker

Mr. James Stout Senior Director, DoD Customer Executive, Avanade Federal Services

0930 – 0945

Networking Break

0945 – 1030

Intelligence Studies: What Academia Provides

Professor James Breckenridge Dean of the Walker School of Business and Chair of the Department of Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst College

1030 – 1100

Closing Remarks

Mr. Grant Schneider Deputy Director for Information Management and Chief Information Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency

 

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As a former DoDIIS CTO, one of my favorite things at the yearly DoDIIS Worldwide Conference is the expo floor. Visiting the many vendors and government displays there is a great way to get a snapshot of available technology. Firms that show technology at DoDIIS bring capabilities that are ready to go now. And, for the most part, the technologies there have great enterprise capabilities that work at scale.

 

Crucial Point will have a team of technology evaluators at the event. We will be visting every company there to ensure we have the latest info on capabilities. This helps us advise clients on technology selection, helps us perform due diligence assessments, and also provides great info we can use for our concept development at CTOlabs.com Additionally, time on the expo floor generates plenty of info and material for our writing here at CTOvision.com and at FedCyber.com.

For a snapshot of vendors that will be there, check out the official conference site at: http://www.ncsi.com/dodiis11/exhibitor_list.html

Here is the current list:

  • (ISC)2
  • ABSi Corp.
  • Actividentity, Inc.
  • Adobe Systems Incorporated
  • Advanced Programs, Inc.
  • Aeronix, Inc.
  • AFRL
  • Akamai Technologies Inc.
  • Alertus Technologies
  • AMX
  • API Cryptek, Inc.
  • Application Security, Inc.
  • ArcSight, an HP Company
  • Aruba Networks, Inc.
  • ASG
  • Aspera, Inc.
  • Autonomy, Inc.
  • Avaya Government Solutions
  • AvePoint, Inc.
  • Avocent, A Division of Emerson Network Power
  • Basis Technology Corp.
  • Battelle
  • Belkin International Inc.
  • Bivio Networks
  • Blue Coat Systems
  • Blue River Information Technology
  • BlueArc Corp.
  • BlueCat Networks
  • BlueSpace Software
  • BMC Software, Inc.
  • Breaking Point Systems
  • Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
  • CACI International, Inc.
  • Carahsoft logo
  • Carahsoft Intelligence Solutions/MetaCarta
  • Carahsoft Open Source Solutions
  • Carahsoft Storage and Security Solutions
  • CGI
  • Chiliad
  • Circle Twelve, Inc.
  • CIS Secure Computing, Inc.
  • Cisco logo
  • Citrix Systems, Inc.
  • ClearanceJobs.com
  • CommScope
  • CommVault
  • Coraid
  • Core Security Technologies
  • Crestron logo
  • CRU-Dataport
  • CSC logo
  • CTGi logo
  • Data Security, Inc.
  • Data Tactics Corporation
  • Decisive Analytics Corporation
  • Defense Intelligence Agency
  • Defense Systems
  • Dell logo
  • Deloitte LLP
  • DISA Computing Services
  • DLT Solutions
  • Double-Take/Vision Solutions
  • DRS Defense Solutions logo
  • Eagle Ray, Inc.
  • eIQnetworks, Inc.
  • Endeca
  • Enterprise Information Services, Inc. (EIS)
  • ESRI
  • Expert System
  • Extron Electronics
  • F5 Networks
  • Fast Lane
  • FasTrac Program
  • FGM, Inc.
  • Fidelis Security Systems
  • Fortinet logo
  • FortiusOne
  • FUJITSU – FCPA
  • Fusion-io
  • General Dynamics
  • Global logo
  • Google, Inc.
  • Global Technology Resources, Inc. (GTRI)
  • Graybar
  • GTSI Corporation
  • HandySoft Corporation
  • Harris Corporation IT Services
  • High Assurance Platform (HAP) Program Office/NSA
  • Highly Reliable Systems
  • Hitachi Data Systems
  • HP Software
  • i2
  • IBM logo
  • iDirect Government Technologies
  • IEEE Xplore Digital Library logo
  • immixGroup
  • Imperva
  • Infoblox
  • Informatica
  • Integrity Global Security
  • Invertix Corporation
  • ipTrust
  • Iron Bow Technologies
  • Isilon logo
  • JackBe Corp.
  • Janya
  • Jive Software
  • Juniper Networks
  • KLAS Telecom, Inc.
  • Kofax, Inc.
  • L-3 Communications
  • Layer 7 Technologies
  • LexisNexis
  • LexisNexis OSINT
  • Leiberman Software
  • Lockheed Martin
  • LogLogic
  • LogRhythm
  • LTI DataComm
  • LynuxWorks, Inc.
  • MadCap Software
  • Mark Logic
  • MaxVision, LLC
  • MEGA
  • Merlin International, Inc.
  • Metastorm
  • MicroLink, LLC
  • MicroPact
  • Microsoft
  • Military Information Technology
  • MXI Security
  • NASA SEWP
  • National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC)
  • NetIQ
  • NetScout Systems
  • Network Integrity Systems
  • NIH, Information Technology Acquisition & Assessment Center (NITAAC)
  • NIKSUN
  • NitroSecurity, Inc.
  • NJVC, LLC
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Nova Datacom logo
  • Ntrepid Corporation
  • NuWave Solutions
  • Objective Interface Systems
  • Occam Solutions
  • Oceus Networks
  • Oculus Federal Corp.
  • Owl Computing Technologies logo
  • Palantir Technologies
  • Palo Alto Networks
  • PAR Government Systems Corporation
  • ParAccel, Inc.
  • PIERS
  • Pitney Bowes Business Insight
  • Polycom, Inc.
  • Proofpoint, Inc.
  • PTFS
  • Q1 Labs
  • Quantum
  • Quest Software, Public Sector Inc.
  • Raritan, Inc.
  • Rave Computer
  • Raytheon BBN Technologies
  • Real-Time Innovations (RTI)
  • Red Hat, Inc.
  • Riverbed Technology
  • Rose Electronics
  • SafeNet, Inc.
  • SAS
  • SDL Language Weaver
  • Security Engineered Machinery, Inc.
  • ShoreTel, Inc.
  • Simulyze, Inc.
  • SitScape, Inc.
  • Six3 logo
  • SMSi
  • SNR Systems
  • Solera Networks
  • Solers, Inc.
  • Sourcefire, Inc.
  • Spectra Logic
  • Spirent Federal Systems
  • Splunk
  • Sterling Computers
  • Stingray56 (formerly HETRA Secure Solutions)
  • StorageHawk
  • SusQtech
  • Swish Data Corporation
  • Sybase Federal, a SAP GSS company, Inc.
  • Symantec
  • TechGuard Security
  • Technically Speaking
  • Telos Corporation
  • Texas Memory Systems
  • The Boeing Company
  • Thetus
  • ThunderCat Technology, LLC
  • TIBCO Spotfire
  • TKC Integration Services, LLC
  • Touch Media Enterprises
  • Transition Networks
  • Tresys Technology
  • Triad Technology Partners
  • Tripwire
  • Trusted Systems, Inc.
  • TVAR Solutions
  • Unified Cross Domain Management Office (UCDMO)
  • VAV-Signal Safeguard
  • Verdasys
  • Verizon Business
  • Vertica Systems
  • VideoBank
  • ViON logo
  • Vivisimo
  • VMware
  • Wave Systems Corporation
  • Wind River
  • Wolfram
  • WolfVision, Inc.
  • Wyse Technology, Inc.
  • Xceedium, Inc.
  • Xirrus

 

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In February 2011 we reported on a Department of Homeland Security research agenda for cyber security, providing the opinion that this was “the most mature research agenda on the topic of cyber security.” That research agenda is fantastic and should help shape the future cyber ecosystem in very positive ways.

Now in March 2011, DHS has produced another significant, positive, virtuous document on the topic of Cybersecurity that deserves the attention of leaders, planners and technologists from across the country. They have given us a white paper titled “Building a Healthy and Resilient Cyber Ecosystem with Automated Collective Action.” This paper flows from discussion, dialog and workshops that collegially fleshed out concepts. It is well worth a read and should help us all move towards a better IT environment.

Things I liked about this paper:

  • It is collegial. It is not about “command and control,” it is about vision and collaboration.
  • It uses relevant models for complex systems like modern IT. Relevant models, like those based on life, can really help in our understanding of how to design for success.
  • It is well written, so it is easy to follow and fast to read
  • It focuses on the most critical threats, in my opinion. With no hype or hyperbole, it spells out clearly what the threat is and why we must rise to mitigate it.
  • It articulates “Resiliency,” an important emerging way of descirbing the state we need in IT that realizes attacks will always be with us.
  • It simply describes and moves out on concepts of healthy devices, strong authentication, automation, and interoperability.

I hope that has been enough to grab your interest. I think the authors would like your review and would appreciate your feedback. They are clearly writers and thinkers with open minds, and the document contains contact information you can use to connect with them.

You can also read context by Phil Reitinger (Deputy Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate) on the DHS blog at: http://blog.dhs.gov/2011/03/enabling-distributed-security-in.html

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The 2011 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 1-5 May 2011 at the COBO at Detroit Michigan. This is always an exciting event for technologists enthused about continued improvement of mission capabilities. The conference is focused on the mission of the US DoD intelligence enterprise, but the many topics tackled at the event are of interest to technologists from a wide range of enterprises.

For more see the official conference site at: http://www.ncsi.com/dodiis11/index.html

Here is some more info from the site:

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) announces the 2011 Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference!

Hosted annually by the DIA Directorate for Information Management (DS) and Chief Information Officer, DoDIIS Worldwide provides a unique opportunity for defense intelligence community members and industry peers to come together for knowledge sharing, training and discussion of current and future information technology (IT) challenges and requirements.

The conference’s 2011 theme, Secure and Collaborative Intelligence in Defense of the Nation, highlights the DIA Chief Information Officer’s commitment to developing and maintaining secure and reliable networks for Department of Defense personnel, services and information technology customers. Through partnerships and collaboration, the intelligence community facilitates the secure collection, analysis and presentation of actionable intelligence to warfighters and decision makers in a timely, comprehensive manner.

DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will attract more than 3,000 participants including 400+ exhibits from across the globe as well as expert speakers, interactive training sessions and daily networking opportunities.

We will be posting some additional context on the event in the coming days, and during DoDIIS will be blogging on some of the ongoing activities. We will also keep our twitter feed up at http://twitter.com/ctovision Please connect there and stay in touch.

 

 

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Vance Hitch, Department of Justice’s CIO, recently sat down with FedScoop and discussed his cybersecurity efforts.  DoJ has a phased approach to cybersecurity.  Included in these issues needed to be addressed are data loss prevention and insider threats. The results are some great context in video.

Mr Hitch was also kind enough to add some words on cloud adoption.  As a large contributor to FedRAMP, he is working to provide guidance and identify controls for cloud programs. Mr Hitch is one of the people in federal IT who is definitely worth noting.

The clip of his discussion with Fedscoop is presented below:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_kK6lU1rU

The following bio of Mr. Hitch is from the DoJ website:

Vance Hitch manages the Department’s $2.1 billion information technology program, overseeing management, acquisition, and integration of information resources across the Department. His oversight includes strategic planning, policy, capital planning, systems development, telecommunications, information security data management, enterprise architecture,

e-government, and user computing. He has served as the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Justice since April 2002.

Prior to coming to the Department of Justice, Hitch was a Senior Partner with Accenture. His projects there included the development of the IT Strategic Plan for the State of Maryland and a comprehensive re-engineering and automation of the City of Philadelphia’s Records Department. Other government organizations that he worked with include the Department of State, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, and multiple state and local governments. Altogether he devoted 28 years as a consultant to leading government organizations successfully through major change initiatives.

Hitch earned a Masters of Systems Management from George Washington University in 1973 and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Muhlenberg College in 1967. He served in the United States Navy from 1969 -1973, attaining the rank of lieutenant.

 

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