IT-United States CIO:Innovation is an endless resource-Znet Video

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The beauty of innovation is that it is an endless resource, unlike many things in our lives and, and everything else. Throughout, throughout American history, we draw on that resource, you know, when, when we're in times of need. I think initiatives like Future First, the modularity, the technology that exists, the people we have in the pipeline in an economic downturn to, to bring to bear on the federal landscape and, and the, and the private sector, that opportunity has never been greater to seize and to drive forward a new phenomenon, and the great thing about this is we're all Americans.
Doing hard work here, helping define what happens in the government will not only lift and this ship that is the federal government and make us run better, but it will life all you up as well. The general problem with cyber security is a lot of times people will use cyber security as an excuse to not move forward on, on innovating, not move forward on platforms, not shift to the cloud and get that. And I think, I think we, you know, making that distinction between cyber as that blanket excuse really makes a false choice between security and innovation.
I think security and innovation should dovetail into an opportunity. When you have an opportunity when you move to cloud, when you build a new system, when you deploy something new to bolster our, our, not only our innovation but our cyber security footprint. You know, everything nowadays are, is connected. A data center you have on premise is as connected as a, as a cloud provider, and we need to really bolster the footprint of, of cyber security and be ever vigilant on our, on our existing infrastructure and the investments we have there to really evolve, evolve security and, and to move forward on that.