WASHINGTON D.C INTERVIEW WITH ENERGY DEPARTMENT CIO TALKING ABOUT A MORE SECURE IT ENVIRONMENT Interview with Energy Department CIO Tom Pyke (full version):

Tom Pyke | A more secure IT environment
Interview with Energy Department CIO Tom Pyke (full version)

The Energy Department has endured several high-profile lapses in computer security in recent years, ranging from intrusions and thefts of sensitive information to losing laptops and carelessly disposing of PCs that contained information from one of its laboratories.

CIO Tom Pyke was tapped last year to be the cowboy in the white hat, when he came to DOE after more than four years as CIO at the Commerce Department. A career government employee, Pyke started at the National Bureau of Standards—now the National Institute of Standards and Technology—where he was director of the Center forComputer Systems Engineering, and then director of the Center for Programming Science and Technology. He also served as CIO and director for High Performance Computing and Communications at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, so he understands very high-endcomputer technology, and how it is applied at DOE’s labs around the country.

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