Suzette Kent on how IT modernization is really a cybersecurity play

FedScoop: There’s always a cybersecurity angle, and federal CIO Suzette Kent found hers during a keynote at CyberTalks.

Kent, whose tenure has thus far been defined largely by the administration’s IT modernization goals as set out by the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) and the attendant cross-agency priority (CAP) goals, pivoted a bit to talk about cybersecurity on Thursday morning. Her thesis? IT modernization is critical to security.

“It’s a little bit of a chicken and egg kind of discussion,” she said. Cybersecurity is about a lot of things, one crucial (if relatively mundane) way an agency can get to a more secure future is by updating its IT foundations, she said.

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