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July 6, 2009
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Infrastructure Never Secure?
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| Look who’s back on tour: Dave Matthews Band hits the Nissan Pavillion on August 8, part of 40 summer dates around the country, including hits off new release: Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux Kin. Grab your ticket before it’s too late. |
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| Last week, we sat down with new Deloitte cyber guru, Gary McAlum for insight on DoD’s cyber command: “Our infrastructure will never be completely secure because we're going against highly skilled and well-resourced enemies, but the key will be keeping our most important information safe.” (Oh, good, the Starbucks Frappacino recipe stays with us.) |
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As former Chief of Staff for the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations (JTF-GNO if you're in a hurry) at the U.S. Strategic Command, he's got the bona fides. Gary applauds President Obama for the attention he’s paid to cyber, including the reaction to Melissa Hathaway’s 60-day cyber review. Gary tells us over the next ten years, security will become a premium the gov't and corporations will be willing to pay for. “Right now security is seen as an add-on, but we’re in a transformational period where it will be at the forefront when building a network.”
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Gary came to Deloitte 10 months ago to help develop cyber security solutions and strategies for the company’s federal partners. We’ll take his word that he marked the Fourth by getting up at 3:30 a.m. to go fishing with a buddy on the Potomac. He’s also quite the scuba diver, although his son (aka, his diving-buddy) just joined the Air Force. “Scuba is a lot like cyber security: When everything is working in harmony, it looks beautiful, but when something goes bad, it can get really scary."
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| Breaking News: SAIC |
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 Contracting giant SAIC announced this morning that it's signed an agreement to purchase Seattle-based engineering and infrastructure consultant R.W. Beck. Terms were not disclosed and the deal awaits shareholder and regulatory approval. SAIC said R.W. Beck, founded in 1942 and now with 550 engineers, will join its Infrastructure, Logistics and Product Solutions Group while Beck Disaster Recovery will join the Homeland Protection and Preparedness business unit. |
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| In To Africa |
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Picture this scene, one that has remained unchanged for thousands of years: An African herdsman stands on a hill overlooking his flock. Then, he pulls out a cell phone and completes a deal to sell off a couple of sheep to a buyer in the next village. Wait, back up. Thinking about new technology use is where African Development Foundation CIO Larry Bevan comes in. “As a micro agency, we face similar challenges with less resources than the larger agencies and departments,” says Larry, whose big project these days, after finishing off the last bit of USADF’s information security audit, is installing a VoIP phone system connecting the agency’s Washington offices to those in 20 African nations.
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Larry, a Kansas City-native, joined the Peace Corps after grad school, serving in Niger. “I can still remember riding my moped on goat paths going from village to village, visiting ag co-ops,” he says. He joined USADF in ‘03 after stops at the Corporation for National Service, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and Booz Allen. USADF provides direct grants to small enterprises, helping to support growth in the most marginalized African nations. Unfortunately, Larry's family doesn't count as a loan-eligible small enterprise, even though his two daughters recently graduated from college and high school; also, we hear he’s quite the boater, plying the waters of the Chesapeake whenever he can.
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