Virginia Local Government IT Executives (VALGITE)
April 26, 2010
Bruce Sturk & Leslie Fuentes – City of Hampton
Overview
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What
Why & How
Challenges
Next Steps
Virginia’s Operational Integration Cyber Center of Excellence
“VOICCE”
What
Virginia’s Operational Integration Cyber Center of Excellence
(VOICCE)
An environment that:
- Simulates a city or community (municipality)
- Tests cyber related events or impacts
- Evaluates and assess current cyber processes and procedures
- Supports National level organizations cyber capabilities development
An operational facility that:
- Hosts systems
- Hosts technical expertise
- Creates scenarios
A training facility to facilitate:
- Experimentation
- Structured evaluations
- User workshops
A “Municipal” Cyber Test Bed
Grant Background
National Cyber Leap Year
Objectives of Nation
Cyber Leap Year:
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construction of a national
research & technology
agenda to ID the most
promising ideas and brings
them to fruition
jumpstarting gamechanging, multi-disciplinary
development efforts
Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative (CNCI) within Homeland Security Presidential
Directive (HSPD)-23, developed by the Networking and Information Technology Research and
Development (NITRD) Program Senior Steering Group (SSG) for Cybersecurity.
Local Government:
Federal & State Collaboration:
DoD, DHS, DARPA, etc.
Virginia Modeling Analysis & Simulation Center
VMASC
Academia:
HU, UVA, VT,ODU, NSU, NIA, etc.
Industry:
Carriers, Integrators, HW/SW/security vendors,
Cloud Vendors, etc.
Synergize Satellites of Excellence to Capture Core Competencies
Not an all inclusive list but…
Why…
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Create World-Class
“Municipal Cyber Lab”
supporting the
Comprehensive National
Cybersecurity Initiative
“When it comes to cyber security,
government and the private sector need
to recognize that an individual
vulnerability is a common weakness.”
Melissa Hathaway,
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Support State & Federal
Initiatives: Plan: “To train the
way we’ll respond, training
scenarios must capture the
benefits of information sharing &
risks of Cyber incidents.”
How…
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Leverage:
• Surrounding communities of
interest (Local Gov’t., Cyber
Industry, State & Federal)
• Deep understanding of local
government operations
• Experienced work force who
understand the challenges
and create workable, timely
solutions
• Leading edge Modeling &
Simulation labs
VOICCE 1st Year Grant Activities
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Pilot Project & Proof of Concept
activities
• Develop initial cyberspace data collection / research &
study baseline information
• Define a VOICCE cyberspace experimentation set of
processes, procedures and responses
• Develop cyberspace municipal event scenarios
• Develop VOICCE architectural design with typical(s) of
local IT department tools & resources
• Execute and assess initial VOICCE construct / scenarios
• Distribute VOICCE Proof of Concept Report
Focus On Local Government
Roll of VALGITE and localities
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Localities identify most pressing local risks & needs
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Incident response
Training
Tools & resources
Risk assessment
others
Localities identify proof of concepts, scenarios &
requirements with VOICCE collaborators
VOICCE resources build scenarios and assist in
scenario utilization
VOICCE reports on progress and research
VOICCE Progress To Date
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Established 501-3c (VOICCE Inc.) – Feb 2010
Participated in Virtual Crisis Response Experiment with Army
Research Laboratory, Joint Future Laboratory, Suffolk, VA to
learn about virtual collaboration tools and human factors of
working in a virtual environment – Feb 2010
VOICCE presentation to MuniGov2.0– Mar 2010
Temporary collaboration space through OpenVCE (in a
Virtual Collaboration Environment)* managed by the
University of Edinburgh includes virtual office and
collaboration tools (website and other collaborative tools) –
Mar 2010
VALGITE presentation – Feedback from VA Local
Governments on the VOICCE project – Apr 2010
Department of Homeland Security – meeting to get feedback
on our approach and plans – May 2010
* OpenVCE I-Room awarded second place in the
collaboration category in Federal Virtual World
Challenge 2010-04-01
The Commonwealth Has a “VOICCE”
http://openvce.net/voicce
Bruce Sturk
Director of Federal Facilities Support
City of Hampton
bsturk@hampton.gov
757-727-6884