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Cybersecurity plagues Fort Hood

Here's a double-dose of déjà vu. I served at Fort Hood in the 1st Cavalry Division for a couple of years in the mid-1980's during my 8 year Army stint, and Ft. Hood is just a few miles up the road from my current home, Austin.

Frank Tiboni writes on FCW.com:

The Army's biggest base has a cybersecurity problem to match its size.

Fort Hood, Texas, the largest Army base in the world and home of the 4th Infantry Division — the service’s first digitized force — has a huge information security problem, said Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran, the Army’s director of information operations, network and space in the Office of the Chief Information Officer. He spoke June 8 at the Army Information Technology Conference sponsored by the Army Small Computer Program.

Some Army IT leaders think the best way to solve the information security problem at Fort Hood is to operate IT as an enterprise. For example, the base has 96 domains on the military’s unclassified network. Consolidating e-mail, servers and storage systems would improve network management, operations and security, Moran said.

posted by Fergie @ 6/09/2005 06:40:00 AM