Federal Government “From the Data Center to the Hybrid Cloud, Our Public Sector Customers Rely on Netapp to Help Them Succeed in Their Critical Missions
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To learn more, please visit www.netapp.com & ecs.arrow.com ROB STEIN VICE PRESIDENT, NETAPP U.S. PUBLIC SECTOR NETAPP is the #1 PROVIDER of STORAGE SOLUTIONS * to the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT “From the data center to the hybrid cloud, our public sector customers rely on NetApp to help them succeed in their critical missions. Our team is dedicated to deliver innovation and partnership, so our customers can evolve their technology environment to move their mission forward.” *Market Connections’ Federal Storage Market Appraisal FY2013. april 30, 2015 • VOLUME 29 NUMBER 6 No Shadow 100M, 100Y, 12K No Shadow 100M, 100Y, 12K What can NetApp offer you? Over two decades OUR SOLUTIONS of experience in the Clustered Data ONTAP provides the data control customers Federal market need in a single platform that spans the local office to the data center to the cloud. 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And there are Performance.gov. on standard personnel security and risks to relying on automation to fer- The leaks from former National suitability forms is taking longer than ret out insider threats. Security Agency contractor Edward planned. But it’s clear that the over- “The unintended consequence that I Snowden and the Navy Yard shooting all objective of preventing leaks and often worry about as we add more and drew attention to efforts to improve sabotage is a high priority for insti- more technological measures for mon- and automate processes by which tutions that collect and guard secret itoring data and data access is that clearances are granted and how information. people will start to think it’s not their access to classified information and The Defense Department issued job anymore to stop anomalies,” said networks is monitored. a directive establishing an insider Neal Ziring, technical director at NSA’s A big piece of the effort is develop- threat program in September 2014, Information Assurance Directorate. ing systems for continuously evaluat- and DOD reports that it is on track There is also the risk of tuning ing the activities and risks posed by to have a continuous evaluation capa- threat detection to be overly sensi- the population of 5.1 million Ameri- bility extended to 225,000 personnel tive to single anomalies. cans with access to classified informa- by December. Ziring said that like any intelligence tion and working on IT strategies to As it stands, the government is work, insider threat detection requires support acquisition and development. scheduled to deploy an initial govern- a mosaic approach, where data is cor- According to the latest update on mentwide insider threat program by roborated and fused to shape a larg- Performance.gov, the Office of the the end of the year, with final operat- er picture that takes into account Director of National Intelligence ing capacity achieved by the end of employee activities on IT networks missed a December 2014 goal to roll 2016. and around classified information, out an initial continuous evaluation The ultimate goal, which is partially financial pressures or sudden unex- capability for individuals with the complete, is to have regular — ideally plained changes in income, among most sensitive clearances. 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April 30, 2015 FCW.COM 3 0430fcw_003-011.indd 3 4/8/15 2:23 PM Contents TRENDING 3 WORKFORCE Piecing together the insider threat puzzle FCW CALENDAR Where you need to be next 8 OVERSIGHT FBI wants ‘legislative fix’ on device encryption, and GAO says the Library of Congress is rudderless on IT 9 SECURITY Obama declares foreign cyberthreats a ‘national emergency.’ Plus, Editor’s Note: Good management or measurement make-work? 10 PEOPLE Commerce aims to lead feds in data, and an FCW Insider news roundup 22 11 INNOVATION What exactly does a digital service team do? BIG DATA Big data goes mainstream 16 Agencies have moved beyond the buzzword and are making DEPARTMENTS big data part of their everyday missions 12 COMMENTARY Why it’s time for a town BY SARAH LAI STIRLAND hall meeting BY TOM BAYBROOK RECORDS MANAGEMENT What’s wrong with tying feds’ pay to the economy Reeling in digital records 22 BY STEVE KELMAN The Fish and Wildlife Service’s Jason Duke transformed Sanctions are a good step a jumble of files on a variety of media into a searchable toward cyber offense database BY PETER HARRELL BY CHAD HUDNALL 28 DRILL DOWN ‘A tale of two contracting methods’ EXEC TECH BY MARK ROCKWELL Cloud brokers, the sequel 24 30 BOOKSHELF The broker definition continues to evolve as new roles When search knows emerge and cloud deployments become more complex what you need BY TROY K. SCHNEIDER BY JOHN MOORE 33 FCW INDEX 34 BACK STORY The future according to DARPA 4 April 30, 2015 FCW.COM 0430fcw_004.indd 4 4/8/15 2:35 PM Editor-in-Chief Troy K. Schneider Vice President, Art and Brand Design SALES CONTACT Executive Editor John Bicknell Scott Shultz INFORMATION Managing Editor Terri J. Huck Creative Director Jeff Langkau MEDIA CONSULTANTS Senior Staff Writer Adam Mazmanian Assistant Art Director