Government Information Security Podcast

As the government adds new applications to its information systems, the more openings it creates for attackers to gain access, creating a continuing battle between IT security professionals charged with safeguarding the systems and those seeking to cause them damage. "The more functionality that's there, the more ways there are for an attacker to get it to operate it in way that no one ever conceived," Dickie George, the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Directorate technical director, said in an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com. "The better the system is, the more interesting it is, the more capability it has, the more opportunities there are for an attacker to find the way in. We are notorious for always needing new types of functionality. We want our equipment to do be able to do more things, and every time we increase the functionality, we allow for problems." In the first of a two-part interview with GovInfoSecurity.com's Eric Chabrow, George discusses: The strength of today's techno