The U.S. Information Chief Wants To Modernize The Government’s Cybersecurity

Nov 03

By staffing up and installing emerging technology, the federal chief information officer hopes to improve government cybersecurity.

Hamza Shaban, BuzzFeed News Reporter

Tony Scott, the country’s chief information officer, wants to overhaul the way government IT is run. On Friday, he will announce a long-term cybersecurity strategy focused on hiring elite technologists, utilizing emerging tech, and fostering consistent, rapid responses to cyberattacks.

“Most of the things we have built systems out of today have their design point 10, 15, even 20 years ago,” Scott told BuzzFeed News. “I’m talking about operating systems, I’m talking about hardware and software. What we’ve had to do in response to today’s cyberthreats is kind of air-bag and Bubble Wrap the things that we’ve built. And we can only do so much of that.”

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