Federal CIO Suzette Kent says OMB to look at modernizing systems, protecting data moving forward

Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent said today that the Office of Management and Budget is wrapping up a series of tasks under the federal IT modernization initiative and moving into an implementation phase aimed at protecting data and modernizing systems.

“Our next set of work and our next set of activities … are around the actions we are going to take to protect the data and what those protocols and environments are,” Kent said at the MeriTalk Cyber Excellence...