Sat, May 26, 2007
Agency Will Market IT Services To Other Agencies, Too
In an effort to save some money by sharing services, Federal
Aviation Administration Chief Information Officer David Bowen
announced Thursday the FAA will begin providing information
technology security for the entire Department of Transportation by
October.
The FAA is in the process of finalizing an agreement with the
department to merge the IT security operations, and hashing out
budgets.
The agency considers this a logical move, since the FAA already
conducts its own IT security 24/7/365. The agency even provides
weekend and after-hours IT security services for other, smaller DOT
agencies which are limited to business-hours-only operations.
"We don't see many civilian agencies with the security expertise
and infrastructure and ability to detect malevolent events as we do
in FAA," said Bowen.
The FAA's IT security operation is projected to mesh seamlessly
with the rest of DOT as it is comprised of a lot of automation,
according to Federal Computer Week.
"We're seeing lots of alerts, and the vast majority of them are
dealt with automatically," Bowen said. "It alerts us only to those
that are serious."
The FAA is a big fan of shared services and it eager to do it -
the agency has already saved $10 million by engaging in shared
services.
The agency is planning to streamline and consolidate agency-wide
IT functions by putting everyone on the same page, as it were, by
taking a dashboard approach. This means a user can view summaries
of projects, activities and aggregate data so they can track
progress and 'drill down' to identify trouble spots easily and
quickly.
According to Bowen, the FAA is also going to try for approval
from the Office of Management and Budget and get named a Center of
Excellence for IT security so it can market its IT security service
to other agencies.
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