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NASA Has A New Chief Information Security Officer

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 19, 2016
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NASA Has A New Chief Information Security Officer

NASA hires cyber mainstay as CISO, FedScoop
“NASA CIO Renee Wynn selected [Jeanette] Hanna-Ruiz to officially begin on Aug. 8 after spending 20 years in public sector information security positions, according to an official release Tuesday. Hanna-Ruiz helped write the Cyberspace Policy Review that outlined the country’s cyber strategy when President Barack Obama took office in 2009. She also worked at the Department of Homeland Security-National Security Agency Joint Cyber Coordination Group, and helped develop the DHS’ cyber missions and capabilities. … NASA received an F in May on a Government Accountability Office-issued FITARA scorecard, which compiled scores based on agencies’ achievements in four categories: data center consolidation, IT portfolio review savings, incremental development and risk assessment transparency.”
NASA Totally Flunks FITARA Scorecard 2 Years In A Row, earlier post
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Jeanette Hanna-Ruiz, LinkedIn
“More recently, Hanna-Ruiz has traveled from January to May on a “mindfulness and meditation journey” that had her walking more than 800 miles in 100 days, and living with monks and nuns throughout France, Nepal, Thailand and other places.”
Keith’s note: This is interesting. Unlike the way in which most people who job hop here in DC, this is an example of someone who actually did a personal operating system reinstall and reboot. Having spent a month living at Everest Base Camp in Nepal, I totally recommend the Himalayas for wetware system upgrades.

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5 responses to “NASA Has A New Chief Information Security Officer”

  1. Neal Aldin says:
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    Good to see NASA name someone who apparently knows something about the subject to a critical position. Apparently it took an F on the GAO FITARA scorecard for NASA to find and place someone with the right education, experience and expertise into a leadership position.

    I’d like to see this kind of change in a lot of other areas-technical areas, safety, public affairs, education instead of astronauts, friends, spouses, or people with unrelated non-applicable backgrounds. Poor personnel choices are a primary reason behind much of the NASA program being in shambles today.

    Just as was done with this security officer position, I’d like to see a wholesale change-out of leadership in a lot of these areas. .

  2. Daniel Woodard says:
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    I would like to know if she has hands-on experience coding system software in both Unix/Linux and Windows environments, and decoding server logs and hack attempts. We need an IT security manager who understands that password rotation actually reduces security since it makes passwords impossible to memorize.

    • fcrary says:
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      But the security manager can simply create a policy against users writing down their password (or saving them on a computer, which is much worse.) Then, if anything happens as a result, it is the user’s fault, not the manager’s.