FAA plans new IT security
News: Government
9/13/2001 8:54
FAA plans new IT security
FCW
Posted By: Benjamin D. Thomas
9/13/2001 8:54
The Federal Aviation Administration is moving forward with a pair of information
technology security initiatives that were set in motion long before Tuesday's terrorist
attacks, according to the agency's chief scientist for IT. Marshall Potter, technical adviser
and chief scientist for IT at the FAA's Office of Information Services, said Version 2.0 of the
FAA's Information System Security Architecture will cover all of the agency's IT assets, as
opposed to older versions that only covered the National Airspace System (NAS).
"As of now, it will be released internally to the FAA on Oct. 1," Potter told FCW at the 21st
Century Commerce International Expo in Phoenix Sept. 11. He said that work had been
under way since January to come up with "bad scenarios" and how the FAA would deal
with them from an IT perspective, but he said, "I expect no one would have given very much
credence to the actions of today."
