Government Information Security Podcast

Back in the 1950s, not too many years removed from World War II, Dickie George was in grade school, and he recalled drills in which pupils hid under their classroom desks in preparation for a bombing attack. Then, he said, people understood threats. "In today's cyber world, cyber is so much more complicated than a bomb that it's really hard for people to really understand the threat, and understand how to defend themselves against that threat," George, technical director at the National Security Agency's Information Assurance Directorate, said in an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com. "That education is what we have to achieve as a nation, so that we can all work together to make ourselves a much harder target." In the second of a two-part interview, George discusses the: Risk federal IT faces because of a dearth of cybersecurity professionals needed to safeguard information systems. Competition among government agencies and the government and business in recruiting far too few cybersecurity professionals