Government Information Security Podcast

Chief of Computer Security Division Describes New Challenges Computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are actively working on a number of projects aimed at helping federal agencies secure their IT systems. Helping direct those projects is Curtis Barker, chief of the Computer Security Division at NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. The division provides standards needed to protect federal government information systems against threats to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and services. In an interview, Barker describes active projects underway in the division, including: Identifying information security processes that can be automated; Improving ways for federal information security managers to more easily identify controls NIST identifies as crucial to secure government IT; and Identifying the security challenges of Web 2.0 and cloud computing so federal agencies can safely implement these technologies. Barker has been at NIST for more