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Former U.S. officials call for transparency in cybersecurity of 2020 Census

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Nearly a dozen former U.S. officials with cybersecurity and intelligence backgrounds are calling on the Census Bureau to be open about how it plans to protect the troves of sensitive information it will collect in the 2020 Census. In a letter released Monday by the Georgetown University Law Center, 11 officials write that Americans deserve to know that the systems and technical protocols the bureau is using will not put collected information at risk. “This is especially important in an age in which new types and sources of cybersecurity threats seem to emerge almost weekly,” the officials say, addressing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and acting Census Bureau Director Ron Jarmin. Signatories on the letter include former White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel, former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen and other Obama administration officials. Cybersecurity is especially pertinent for the upcoming census because it will be the first to allow […]

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DHS’s diagnostics open door to collaboration among agencies, says Commerce official

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A funny thing happened when the CIO Council at the Department of Commerce sat down to figure out how to deploy the new tools coming from the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Monitoring, or CDM, program. Rod Turk, the department’s CISO and acting CIO, said people on the council —which brings together the CIOs from all the various agencies and bureaus that make up Commerce — started asking questions. “Questions like, ‘Why do we have multiple Security Operation Centers and Network Operation Centers?’ … We have three SOC’s just in [the Commerce headquarters building] … What can we do  more efficiently?” recalled Turk, who said he’s sat on the council for about eight years. Turk spoke at a breakout session on CDM on Thursday at the 2017 McAfee Security Through Innovation Summit hosted by FedScoop and CyberScoop. Under the governmentwide CDM program, DHS pays for cybersecurity tools and services that monitor the IT networks […]

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A funny thing happened when the CIO Council at the Department of Commerce sat down to figure out how to deploy the new tools coming from the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Monitoring, or CDM, program. Rod Turk, the department’s CISO and acting CIO, said people on the council —which brings together the CIOs from all the various agencies and bureaus that make up Commerce — started asking questions. “Questions like, ‘Why do we have multiple Security Operation Centers and Network Operation Centers?’ … We have three SOC’s just in [the Commerce headquarters building] … What can we do  more efficiently?” recalled Turk, who said he’s sat on the council for about eight years. Turk spoke at a breakout session on CDM on Thursday at the 2017 McAfee Security Through Innovation Summit hosted by FedScoop and CyberScoop. Under the governmentwide CDM program, DHS pays for cybersecurity tools and services that monitor the IT networks […]

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