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Meyerrose to blog, dialogue on IT security issues
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Open forum: Dale Meyerrose, CIO of the national intelligence office, is harvesting the opinions of a broad range of technical specialists via online discussion groups and blogs.
National Intelligence Office CIO Dale Meyerrose's blog
In a striking departure from the spy culture’s axiom that secret information always is preferable to information that’s openly available, the CIO for the director of national intelligence is harvesting the opinions of a broad range of technical specialists via online discussion groups and a blog.
Valuable insights
The Revitalizing Certification and Accreditation Initiative Web site states that the CIO office already has garnered valuable insights on improving its technology.
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose, CIO of the national intelligence office, is making over the security practices of a broad swath of agencies that his boss, director of national intelligence John Negroponte, oversees.
Meyerrose is coordinating the review of security issues such as certification and accreditation with Pentagon CIO John Grimes, a longtime Meyerrose colleague.
He said one part of the plan is to reduce the number of cross-domain interfaces, which some estimates put in the high hundreds or even thousands.
“We are going to maintain about two dozen joint cross-domain solutions,” Meyerrose said recently at the TechNet International 2006 Conference.
With the move to revamp the C&A processes, he said two teams would spend the next seven months going through suggestions, and would make proposals late this year.
“We’re truly looking for proposals from the community at large on how we can do business better,” he said. “Our 16 intelligence agencies are without peer in the world. We need to be without peer collectively. It doesn’t do us much good to be excellent individually.”
Steven Aftergood, director of the Intelligence Resource Program at the Federation of American Scientists, a leading independent analyst and frequent critic of intelligence community practices, said the open forum holds out the promise of breaking down barriers between the clandestine agencies and the broader IT world.
According to the project’s Web site, “The DNI CIO’s Certification and Accreditation Re-vitalization initiative is a five-month activity designed to solicit fresh and innovative ideas to improve the certification and accreditation processes.”
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