“On April 17, the chief information officer of the Veterans Affairs Department, Scott Blackburn, announced his resignation. He served under former VA Secretaries Bob McDonald and David Shulkin, and led a number of health IT projects during his 4-year tenure, including the MyVA transformation.”
“But what does this mean for the newly appointed acting CIO, Camilo Sandoval?”
“According to VA’s “2017 Year in Review” report, it had 376 large data centers around the country that were inefficient, costly and noncompliant with the Office of Management and Budget’s Data Center Optimization Initiative memo or FITARA. So, after evaluating its data centers for potential consolidation, VA closed 24 of them in 2017.”
“VA’s goal is to close 68 more in 2018…”
“The most recent Office of Inspector General report of the major management challenges and high-risk areas found VA still struggles to secure its systems and networks holistically and effectively…”
“Yet, OIG found VA information system security shortfalls and inconsistent implementations of security programs. Specifically, there were control flaws in security management, access controls, configuration management and…” Read the full article here.
Source: Top Challenges New VA CIO Needs to Solve – By Amanda Ziadeh, April 20, 2018. GovernmentCIO.
