Top CIO Shares His Views On IT Security

Joseph R. Cleveland is acutely aware of the IT security challenges facing American business today. He's the CIO for Lockheed Martin, the aerospace technology giant that has a worldwide work force of more than 130,000 and enjoyed sales of $31 billion in 2003. CIO Today magazine interviewed Cleveland last week for its article Lockheed Martin CIO Joseph R. Cleveland: Managing Technology in a Post 9-11 World, available here:
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In the interview, he tells the magazine about the challenges of securely managing the data and communications infrastructure in a company with a distributed workforce and a myriad of business partners. Cleveland describes how he and his colleagues must do this against a backdrop of constantly changing technology and threats and the new regulatory demands of Sarbanes-Oxley. During the course of the brief Q&A, Cleveland gives readers a peek into the IT decision making process in the multi-billion dollar company and also shares his insight into the types of technology he'd like to have deployed across Lockheed Martin in the next 12 months.