CIO, CTO & CISO
CIO: 5 State CIOs Discuss Priorities, Share Recommendations. At NASCIO’s annual conference, five CIOs were given five minutes each to revisit their respective priorities and make recommendations based on their own experiences. Read more
[GOVTECH.COM]
CTO: FCC Names New CTO. Eric Burger was named chief technology officer of the Federal Communications Commission on Oct. 2. Burger previously served as director of the Security and Software Engineering Research Center, based in Muncie, Ind. The center focuses on telecommunications issues, including robocalling, access by people with disabilities and network stability. It represents researchers, faculty and students drawn from three institutions of higher learning: Ball State University, Virginia Tech and Georgetown University. Read the rest
[FCW.COM]
CISO: Think About How Your Customers Actually Use Your Mobile Apps. It’s not every day that a veteran chief information security officer writes a book that blasts the mobile community for torpedoing enterprise security. Find out more
[COMPUTERWORLD.COM]
CISO: McDonald’s New CISO Shares Insights on Talking to the Board. What advice does the new CISO of fast-food giant McDonald’s, who has served as CISO at two other major corporations, have for how to communicate with the board of directors? Tim Youngblood says the key is to know that the board’s role is “to understand what is the risk to our organization and are we doing the right things to address that risk.” Read more
[BANKINFOSECURITY.COM]
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NOW ON SLIDESHARE: Tech Update Summary from Blue Mountain Data Systems September 2017 https://www.slideshare.net/BMDS3416/tech-update-summary-from-blue-mountain-data-systems-september-2017.
IT SECURITY SUPPORT: Blue Mountain Data Systems is actively involved in implementing FISMA and NIST standards with Federal Civilian Agencies. Due to our extensive experience in this area, Blue Mountain has developed processes and organizational techniques to help ensure security deliverables are completed on time, and performed in the most efficient manner possible. We ensure that NIST-800-53 control requirements are treated consistently during definition, analysis, implementation, auditing, and reporting phases of a system. Find out more about Blue Mountain Data Systems IT Security Support Services. Call us at 703-502-3416.
BLUE MOUNTAIN DATA SYSTEMS HAS THE EXPERIENCE: 1994 to Present – U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. Responsible to the Office of Technology and Information Systems for information systems architecture, planning, applications development, networking, administration and IT security, supporting the enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act — ERISA. Within the EBSA, Blue Mountain is responsible for design, development and support for its various enforcement database management systems, as well as all case tracking and customer service inquiry systems. Blue Mountain also provides IT security services to the EBSA, in the form of FISMA Assessment and Authorization, System Security Plans, Risk and vulnerability assessments, monitoring and investigation support. Read more.
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