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NASA Memo: Protection of Sensitive Agency Information

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
April 3, 2012
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NASA Memorandum for the Record: Protection of Sensitive Agency Information
“This memorandum reinforces NASA policy regarding the protection of Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) information. The memorandum applies to all Centers, Mission Directorates and their supporting commercial contractors that process NASA information. Individuals responsible for handling SBU information should be cognizant of the requirements outlined within this memorandum to ensure the protection of all SBU data.”
Stolen KSC Laptop Has Employee Personal Info On It (Update), earlier post
NASA IT Security is a Mess – Stolen Laptops and Hacking JPL, earlier post

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One response to “NASA Memo: Protection of Sensitive Agency Information”

  1. m m says:
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    This memo is a combination of spineless and stupid.

    It’s spineless because NASA as an agency still hasn’t figured out yet how it will handle “data at rest” encryption.  So Bolden is just pushing the burden of figuring this out to all the individual projects with SBU data.  Instead of NASA having one, consistent response to questions about DAR, we will have a cacophony.  The right thing to do here would be to respond back to detractors “we don’t have a solution yet that works for the whole agency, so we’re going to fix that.  Until we do, we’re not going to do this.” But that would require a spine.

    It’s stupid because it includes servers.  Servers do not have the same problem with loss and theft that laptops do.  Meanwhile, they tend to be performance constrained.  If you encrypt the data on them, then your performance goes down.  Servers serve many people.  Do we really want to hobble our servers?