b'InsightsHow do you lead?capability across the DHS enterprise. We need to modernize the network by taking advantage of GSAs Enterprise The Navy has a motto: honor, courage, and commitment.Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle to begin that I bought into this motto long ago. You need to be committedmodernization. It is fundamentally important to how we to what you do every day. A leader must also have courage tomove forward with our network in delivering new capability do the difficult tasks and the honor to follow through on theirat lower cost. Priority number one is getting EIS out the door, commitment. That is, leaders must always, and in everyon the street, and awarded. At the end of the day, it is about context, maintain their integrity.simplifying network management and delivering higher quality performance that ensures information flows smoothly A leader must also prioritize. You must limit your prioritiesacross all DHS missions and devices. This entails maturing a while you also empower your staff. Leadership is about, asvirtual network, exploring mega data opportunities and data I said, exhibiting the U.S. Navy motto: honor, courage, andportability, accelerating network innovation and agility, and commitment. But its also about taking seriously the power ofultimately, enforcing a zero trust network. delegation. Priority number two is in the security field. We are looking Would you outline the strategic vision that guided your efforts?to optimize our Security Operation Centers (SOC). SOCs are how we assess and defend our websites, apps, databases, Lets start with my IT priorities. When I arrived at DHSdata centers, networks, and desktop computers from these priorities were made clear to me. My priorities were tocyber intrusion and attacks. Most of the centers operate modernize the network, secure the network, and deliverindependently from each other. We have 16 SOCs. We started a long road here in a crawl, walk, run strategy. Were beginning to get into our walk phase. The SOC optimization is part of a wider DHS effort to simplify and amplify cybersecurity. That effort involves contracting, operations, and tools, such as Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM). We have delegated aspects of the optimization effort to component chief information security officers (CISOs). The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) CISO has the lead for identifying what tools we want to have on our network. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) CISO is focusing on policy and procedures. Across tools and procedures, we have to recognize that DHS components may have uniquely different missions and we need to make allowances for those differences, ensuring that we dont make it harder for them to achieve their missions. The Secret Service has the lead here. It has been developing the single multiple award contract that will provide a central pool of services from which all DHS SOCs can pick and choose. Another key priority focuses on department and component data. We completed a study exploring how to instantiate a DHS chief data officer. Is it a CDO policy? Is it a CDO with a lot of authority? What is it? That is the problem weve been wrestling with. We have also laid out an intelligent automation strategy that deals with robotic process automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI). Were not going to jump immediately to AI. Wed probably fail. It is about: how do you start small and then build your way up to AI? Were focusing this effort on mission-support aspects of DHSthe business systems. 52 www.businessofgovernment.org The Business of Government'