Northrop’s Ron Foudray: New Cyber Strategies Needed in Federal IT

Northrop Grumman’s Ron Foudray has suggested that federal IT experts re-examine their cybersecurity strategies and seek new methods beyond encryption to protect information, GSN reported Wednesday.

Ashley Bennett writes that Foudray, vice president of business development at Northrop’s cyber solutions division, noted cybersecurity best practices include “moving away from protecting assets at the perimeter” and employing solutions that encompass the whole enterprise data.

Foudray encouraged enterprises to adopt data security models that are “more evolved” to address privacy and security issues, noting vulnerabilities compounded by data proliferation via mobile and cloud computing.

“Depending on the size of the organization implementing the cyber framework, big data techniques and technologies may be required to detect anomalies and events in the torrent of otherwise harmless data flowing through the enterprise network,” he said.

“The NIST cyber framework is very useful for communicating how to manage risk by establishing a detection baseline and aggregating and correlating the event data,” Foundray added.