Counties dance to Dickey's tune

摘要

Kevin Dickey vividly recalls his ini-tiation as CISO for Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay Area. At a formal meeting, the county's then CIO introduced him to department heads as "the guy who's going to hack into your systems." Dickey moved quickly to defuse the intimidating introduction. "No, time out. I'm here to help. I'm here to make sure we don't have problems,not to find them," he countered. That was seven years ago, when Dickey broke ground as the first information security officer in California's 58 counties. Since then, he has established infosec standards throughout Contra Costa's 38 departments. He has also helped develop a set of infosec best practices and policies that many California counties are implementing.