Whole Lotta Security Goin' on in June

Because June marks the culmination of several initiatives to standardize information technology practices to improve information security, Karen Evans, administrator of the Office of Electronic Government and Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget, took a moment on Tuesday to discuss the big picture at a conference sponsored by 1105 Government Information Group in McLean, Va.

Evans said the upcoming deadlines for agencies to comply with several IT initiatives was a deliberate choice, designed to help tie together the separate initiatives into one coherent security strategy across the government. She discussed the Trusted Internet Connection initiative, the shift to the newest Internet protocol called IPv6, the issuance of HSPD-12 credentials and the Federal Desktop Core Configuration, which requires users operating with a Microsoft desktop environment to adopt a standard configuration for the desktop.