FOR THE CIO, CTO & CISO

CIO: What Does Innovation Look Like? Everyone talks about innovation, but quantifying it can be a bit, well, fuzzy. Here three CIOs put innovation into more concrete terms. Read more
[CIO.COM]

CTO: Microsoft Azure’s CTO Wants Blockchain to Connect Every Industry. Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich envisions a world where every industry is involved in a blockchain consortium. In fact, since the network effect of a blockchain is only amplified by the number of participants, he thinks this future will prove inevitable as companies seek efficiency in numbers. And there’s evidence so far to suggest that Russinovich is right. Find out more
[COINDESK.COM]

CISO: OMB Taps Current Fed to Fill Federal CISO Role. Seven months after President Barack Obama announced he would be appointing a federal chief information security officer to act as the point person on agency cybersecurity, the administration named Gregory Touhill as the first to occupy the post. Touhill is currently the deputy assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications in Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications. Read more
[FEDERALTIMES.COM]

CTO: Use Ransomware to Get Security Buy-in, says Trend Micro CTO. Ransomware is one of the top cyber threats to business, but organisations should use that to engage stakeholders and review processes and defences, says Trend Micro CTO Raimund Genes. Find out more
[COMPUTERWEEKLY.COM]

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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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CIO, CTO & CISO – Daily Tech Update – September 12, 2016

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