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Kosta Kalpos
Senior Advisor, Cybersecurity
Department of Homeland Security
THE EINSTEIN EVANGELIST.
Kalpos has taken DHS’ Einstein
3 Accelerated to new heights by expanding adoption of the network defense system from 25 percent of the .gov enterprise in 2015 to more than 90 percent in 2016. He advised and briefed every civilian agency on the program and also serves as senior adviser to the White House, where
he provides operational guidance to the Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. CIO on Einstein activi- ties. His stellar performance has also earned him a DHS leadership award and the NASA CIO Award.
Rob Karas
Director, National Cybersecurity Assessments andTechnical Services
Department of Homeland Security
SPEED TESTER. It’s one thing to conduct a dozen penetration tests on high-value government assets in one year, but conducting 53 such tests in 100 days requires the leadership of someone like Karas. In May 2016, the Office of Management and Budget asked NCATS to do just that. Karas and his team had already developed a scorecard, vulnerability tracker and dashboard for identifying and mitigating critical vulnerabilities. Karas led efforts to modify those tools and procedures so DHS could fulfill OMB’s request. The resulting products have improved DHS’ ability to determine the network security status of any federal agency.
Stephanie L. Keith
Chief of Cyber Workforce Strategy and Policy Division
Department of Defense
A ROADMAP FOR THE CYBER WORKFORCE. Keith went well beyond her basic marching order of implementing the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education Cyber- security Workforce Framework by creating a tool that other organiza- tions can use to improve workforce recruitment, training and retention. The DOD Cyber Workforce Frame- work is a lexicon of 52 unclassified roles, with descriptions and aligned tasks. Keith even devised data ana- lytics to determine which steps are essential to the success of DOD’s cyber mission. Her efforts earned the support of DOD, the Department of Homeland Security, the National Institute of Standards and Technol- ogy, the Office of Personnel Manage- ment and others.
Thomas P. Kidd
Director of Strategic Spectrum Policy
Department of the Navy
MAKING WIRELESS WORK.
Kidd led an initiative that reduced the cycle time for the commercial broadband siting process on Department of the Navy installations from approximately five years to
less than one. Ensuring that the department’s systems and personnel have adequate access to commercial wireless technology is necessary for future enhanced telecommunications capabilities and is an important factor in the quality of life for sailors,
Marines and their families. Kidd has advised the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the House Energy and Commerce Committee on how the department’s Streamlined Process for Commercial Broadband Deployment policy could be implemented across the federal government.
Peter E. Kim
Chief Information Security Officer
Department of the Air Force
CYBER HYGIENIST. Kim is lead- ing the Air Force’s alignment with the Defense Department’s Cyberse- curity Scorecard, an action plan to improve cyber hygiene across DOD and service networks. He also spear- headed the creation of the Cyber Secure campaign, which is educating 300,000 airmen about cybersecurity, and he is forming strategic industry partnerships to ensure that the Air Force is on the cutting edge of cyber- security. Kim drove the deployment of state-of-the-art cyber defense tech- nology to over 500,000 endpoints on Air Force networks and reduced the time for taking cybersecurity actions from days or weeks to mere seconds.
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