Only Fernando Burbano is Chief Information Officer or the U.S. Department of State and co-chair of the Federal CIO Council for Security, Privacy and Critical Infrastructure Protection. It's important to the private sector, and it's of unique concern to government agencies as well, with so much information to protect. So I think that speaks for itself.
Security is right up at the top of management concerns for IT managers in government.
Security is largely a hardware and software issue and early on, firewalls were what everyone was talking about. It seemed at one point to be enough to protect Web sites. Certainly not enough anymore. Well, first of all, I would like to say that firewalls are still important. But I would like to add that as any other kind of technology, they come in different flavors.