Light Bulbs Slowly Illuminating at NASA?

June 12th, 2010 admin

I’ve seen a few glimmers of hope appearing in the .gov space recently, so I wanted to note them here. Linda Cureton in her NASA CIO blog said: We have struggled in the area of cyber security because of our belief that we are able to obtain this ideal state called – secure . This belief leads us to think for example, that simply by implementing policies we will generate the appropriate actions by users of technology and will have as a result a secure environment. This is hardly the truth. Not to say that policies are worthless, but just as the 55 mph speed limit has …


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