Rod Turk: Oh absolutely. In fact, when I take a look at Department of Commerce, and I think the same is true with most other departments, basic cyber hygiene is really what we need to be looking at—at a very base level. And as you take a look at what’s going on in the department, making sure that we know what our assets are, making sure that we’ve got the proper configuration set on each one of those assets, and then being able to determine patch levels as I mentioned earlier.
JIm Flyzik: Right.
Rod Turk: I think those are 3 critical elements in the cyber hygiene process; and if we take that analogy another step in terms of the healthcare kind of analogy…
JIm Flyzik: Right.
Rod Turk: Looking at like a center for disease control let’s say…
JIm Flyzik: Okay.
Rod Turk: Where all things “health” come to the center for disease control…
JIm Flyzik: Right.
Rod Turk: They do information, they do knowledge, they do research—those kinds of things, I think that’s what Homeland Security is looking towards in terms of a resiliency for the network; to be able to do that kind of a function for the cyber world. So the term “cyber hygiene” really does have kind of a…
JIm Flyzik: I like it.
Rod Turk: A lot of threads into how we really need to take a look at the cybersecurity role.
JIm Flyzik: Yeah.
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