Rod Turk: Well, I’m really happy to say that I’m one of the 23. The Department of Commerce is one of the 23…
JIm Flyzik: All right.
Rod Turk: That John referred to; and we have benefited greatly from John’s work over at the Federal Network Resiliency group over in Homeland Security. We are implementing a continuous monitoring tool in the Department of Commerce—commerce wide.
JIm Flyzik: Okay.
Rod Turk: And in fact, this is…for the Department of Commerce, it’s the first shared service type initiative within the department in the IT organization as well as the information security areas. So we’re really excited about this. We’re about 50% deployed right now. We expect to be totally complete with the deployment by the end of the fiscal year; and this is then going to provide us with information regarding patch levels, asset management, and secure baseline information that we think at the device level is going to give us some real serious input into our security in the process.
JIm Flyzik: Terrific. It covers all the subcomponents or the plan is to cover all subcomponents…
Rod Turk: All 12 of the subcomponents in the department.
JIm Flyzik: In the census and [00:01:02]
Rod Turk: [00:01:03] all of them.
JIm Flyzik: Yeah, terrific.
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