Tuesday, 31 May 2016
ICIT Forum 2016: Security in a Connected World: SmartCities, Transportation & IoT
While Smart City technologies have the potential to improve the quality of life for our citizens, they are creating new vulnerabilities which can be exploited by our enemies to disrupt critical services and cause physical harm. During this panel discussion, we hear from federal and technology experts on the risks posed by smart city technologies and what must be done to improve resiliency. Panelists include Arlette Hart (CISO, FBI), Jerry Davis (CIO, NASA, Ames Research Center & ICIT Fellow), Biff Lyons (ICIT Fellow, Parsons), Steve Stratton (ICIT Fellow, ForcePoint) and Kevin Chalker (ICIT Fellow, GRA Quantum).
ICIT Critical Infrastructure Forum
April 25, 2016
Ritz-Carlton Pentagen City, Arlington VA
Additional Videos from the 2016 ICIT Forum:
Keynote: Critical Infrastructure Security (Richard Ledgett, Deputy Director, NSA) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA63U…
Keynote: IT Modernization & Cybersecurity (Tony Scott, CIO, Federal Government) – https://youtu.be/WBu_jzApmgk
DevOps (CIO, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG4xo…
Threat Intelligence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPeD2…
Energy Sector Security- https://youtu.be/0sJ91XWURgo
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Monday, 30 May 2016
Suicide rates – and how Medicaid can help
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released results this week to document that suicide rates have increased by 24 percent since 1999. The increase has been especially rapidly among women and among middle-aged people of both genders between the ages of 45 and 64. This is just a huge problem. Quite properly, the story has gotten much play. This morning’s New York Times includes a front-page story: “U.S. Suicide rate surges to a 30-year high.”
I’m glad that the story has gotten so much attention. Yet the generalized calls to action seem oddly divorced from the actual policy levers through which we might reduce this problem. Here for example is my friend (and Twitter sparring partner) Ron Fournier: For the full article click here
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Missouri health information exchange bills panned
KERFUFFLE IN MISSOURI OVER HIE BILLS: Controversy is brewing in the Missouri legislature over a bill that would create a health information commission empowered to dictate health information standards and regulate “health information organizations.” Mike Dittemore, executive director of the Lewis and Clark Information Exchange in neighboring Kansas, says the commission would “mandate good behavior” in an industry known to have some bad actors. He tells Morning eHealth that data flow in Missouri is still siloed and the new regulator would expedite the exchange of patient records. He points to Kansas as a good example of a state doing things right and says linking the two states, which share Kansas City, has been extremely difficult. — But it’s not so simple, says Angie Bass, chief operating officer of the Missouri Health Connection. The precise powers of the new state-wide commission aren’t yet clear and that’s scary Bass said. In addition, it could interfere with federal standards. “We feel like there isn’t a problem to be solved and this is an overreach of government,” Bass told us. For the full article click here
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Thursday, 26 May 2016
PEOPLE POWER IS THE LOST KEY TO CYBER RESILIENCE
by Nick Wilding, Head of Cyber Resilience, AXELOS
Corporate and personal reputations are hard-won but they can be ruined in an instant. As countless examples have shown, businesses large and small are being successfully attacked by cyber criminals with often catastrophic impacts. The fact that so many organisations, of all sizes and in all sectors, have had their most valuable and commercially sensitive information compromised reflects the scale of the problem. It also highlights that no one is safe. All organisations are at risk and you can never be ‘bullet-proof’. But organisations can manage their cyber risks more effectively by adopting an organisation-wide response, led from the top that effectively balances business opportunities and risks as well as the processes, technologies and critically the people that make the organisation tick.
“It’s a well-known fact that the great majority of cyber-attacks succeed because of human error – an unwitting mistake made by anyone. “
Until this happens they will remain as vulnerable as anyone else. Cyber resilience can be described as the ability of any organisation to prevent, detect, respond and recover from the impacts of an attack with minimal damage to their reputation, market value or competitive advantage. In a resilient organisation protecting your business and most precious information is as much about preparing for an attack and setting up structures and processes to deal with one as and when it happens.
It’s a well-known fact that the great majority of cyber-attacks succeed because of human error – an unwitting mistake made by anyone. Anyone from the boardroom to the frontline. Cyber-criminals, like those in the real world, are opportunists and they are adept and persistent at exploiting these ‘unlocked doors’ into any organisation.
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