Getting Clean: 8 Initial Steps Toward Cyber Hygiene

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March 26th, 2020 by Sean Roche

Sean Roche is former Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation. The Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) was created to accelerate the integration of advanced digital capability across all of CIA’s mission areas and is responsible for a wide range of espionage missions including cyber intelligence, open source collection, secure global communications, worldwide mission information systems, data curation, and data science. He successfully worked to overhaul the legacy personnel systems and practices to create CIA’s first digital workforce.

This is part two of his series on Dangerous and Expensive Addictions to Legacy Systems

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