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Lonny Anderson, Director of NSA Technology Directorate, CTO and CIO, National Security Agency
Though generally tight-lipped, the National Security Agency has long been a center of IT innovation in government given its role as a nexus for signals intelligence and digital espionage. CIO Lonny Anderson is NSA's top tech geek.
NSA is on the front lines of cybersecurity, helping other agencies with guidance, engineering, and threat analysis. Agencies sometimes use NSA red teams to probe their networks for weak points. NSA has also been a key player in establishing cybersecurity standards for use government. The agency recently developed the Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device, which lets intelligence and military officials send and receive classified phone calls and e-mails and browse secret Web sites. Its research arms have done work in areas such as secure Linux and language and voice analytics. Sponsored ContentDeveloping an Enterprise Cloud Computing StrategyA strategy of growing the cloud from the inside out delivers many of the benefits of cloud computing and positions Intel IT to utilize external clouds over time. IT@Intel: Better Together: Rich Client PCs and Cloud ComputingCloud computing poses new questions about the optimal enterprise client computing strategy. Find out which combination of client platforms and service delivery models best meets the needs of users and IT organizations. |