From: FCW
By Ken Ammon
Unless we take a new approach, the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to modernize the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) program could repeat the same missteps that plague the previous effort. Namely, lack of flexibility, long implementation times and little or no integration with existing cloud security initiatives like the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program (CDM).
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Yet the new version of TIC 3.0 may not be substantially different from TIC 2.2. The latter forced federal IT projects to move at the speed of government. It involved customized, one-of-a kind deployments that took years to implement, and were typically obsolete before they were deployed.
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