The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics component is driving hard this year toward further adoption of cloud services and automation of security processes, the bureau’s chief information security officer (CISO) said during a Jan. 25 webinar organized by ATARC.
“We’re in the process right now of moving to the cloud. We have a very big project that we’re moving on right now,” said BLS CISO Angela Pompey.
Pompey explained that while other Federal agencies have been on a faster march toward cloud adoption and security automation, BLS has been slower on those fronts due in part to limited funding.
“I still have to manage my agency resources,” she said, adding, “we don’t have a $700 million budget, so it’s a struggle for us.”
“One of the things I think that’s important when talking about enhancing cloud security, without compromising the critical assets and maintaining a level of resource allocation that makes sense, is automation,” Pompey said.
“The ability to automate security processes that would be conventionally be handled through manual operations would be critical to optimizing our resources,” she said.
Pompey also explained that BLS has been making gains through hybrid technology environments.
“We’ve been able to leverage that hybrid environment … by automating some of these processes and looking at our tools and seeing where the overlap is and where we can use one tool for both environments,” she said.
