Federal CIO Scott offers a new idea to measuring cyber progress

From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500AM

By Nicole Ogrysko

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“Cybersecurity incidents are an example, or a form of an example, of a defect or an error,” federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott said Sept. 9, at the NextGov Prime 2015 event in Washington. “If we measure those in an objective way, we can tell over time whether we’re actually making progress.”

Agencies’ next steps, he said, are focusing on the fundamental design of legacy networks, storage and computing systems — most which were designed and built 10-to-20 years ago — and finding a way to prevent the defects.

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