From: FedScoop
By Greg Otto
There are a number of ways you could describe what happened when John Oliver’s call to action over new net neutrality rules crashed the Federal Communications Commission’s website. A catastrophe. A disaster. A debacle.
FCC Chief Information Officer David Bray calls it a “distraction.”
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A rational beginning
For Bray’s team, a key portion of 2014 was spent going through a rationalization process, where those 207 systems were picked apart. Helping with this process were two people Bray plucked from the Department of Homeland Security: Mary Ellen Seale and Chuck Aaron. Seale’s first task was to conduct several audits of FCC’s systems: a full sweep of the entire enterprise that included a “cyber hygiene” examination, a vulnerability assessment and complete measure of FCC’s existing hardware inventory. After gathering up each system, Bray and his team put every system it found on the chopping block.
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