U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said cloud computing will play a major role as the nation’s spy agencies work to integrate computer and information systems to share more data securely.
Cloud computing has “huge potential for achieving savings and promoting integration,” Clapper told an audience today at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy group in Washington.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper delivered the keynote address at The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) event, "Information Sharing: Adapting and Improving an Expanded ISE" Thursday morning. Watch on CSPAN.
Over the past year, the threat environment facing our nation has evolved from one that primarily emanates from outside our borders to one that increasingly comes from within our communities.
By Jason Miller
Audio Interview on Federal News Radio
President Barack Obama's executive order last week codified many of the steps agencies took in the last 11 months since WikiLeaks made a huge cache of classified information public.
But what may not be readily apparent in the mandate is the expansion of the role of the Information Sharing Environment (ISE).
By Ellen Nakashima
The White House will issue Friday an executive order on computer security to prevent breaches of the sort that occurred with the release last year of hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the Web site WikiLeaks.
The order, coinciding with National Cybersecurity Month, replaces an outdated policy predating the Obama administration and caps a seven-month review of procedures for handling classified information.
By Marc Ambinder
By executive order, President Obama will instruct federal agencies today to better safeguard their classified secrets, to set up internal audit systems, and to make sure that reluctance to share critical intelligence in the aftermath of the WikiLeaks exposure does not hamper collaboration across agencies.
By Eric Schmitt
WASHINGTON — The White House plans to issue an executive order on Friday to replace a flawed patchwork of computer security safeguards exposed by the disclosure of hundreds of thousands of classified government documents to last year.
The order by President Obama culminates a seven-month governmentwide review of policies and procedures involving the handling of classified information, and recommendations on how to reduce the risk of breaches.
During the past year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Privacy Office expanded the breadth of its privacy and FOIA-related initiatives throughout the department, the federal community and with international partners, according to an annual report issued by DHS’s Chief Privacy and Freedom of Information Act Officer, Mary Ellen Callahan.
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The Agriculture Department has a standard language to share information about orange juice production. The Homeland Security Department is developing a lexicon for cybersecurity.
Both of these agencies, along with several others, are using the same tool to create their common vocabulary to make information sharing easier.
