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 . . .
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."

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