--- sean@donelan.com wrote: From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> https://fcw.com/articles/2016/04/11/lyngaas-halvorsen-update.aspx --------------------------------------------- Wow, this is big news in that article for the companies that deal with selling network devices and computers to the DoD: (Defense Department CIO is Terry Halvorsen) "Halvorsen also briefed reporters on updates to the department's cybersecurity scorecard and its certification process. He said he expects to announce revisions in the coming weeks to DOD's accreditation and certification process for commercial IT products and services. "I think we have reached a point where we no longer can do specific hardware or software accreditation," he said, meaning a piecemeal approach won't keep up with continual updates to, say, cloud offerings. "Our process wouldn't sustain that," he said of certifying cloud offerings that are always being updated. "We need to look at how we do certification and accreditation by process and at some point maybe even by vendor."" scott