Approved for 1 CompTIA CEU: A+, Network+, Security+, Cloud+, CSA+, and CASP; 1 GIAC CPE
The evolving threat to DoD information dominance requires DISA to become more innovative and efficient with the solutions needed to operate, sustain, and defend DISA’s data center, application, and networking systems. DISA continues to innovate in the area of CyberNetOps Solutions. The capabilities of all solutions used for NetOps, Situational Awareness (SA)/Analytics, and Defense Cyber Operations are becoming more interdependent, with NetOps tools used for Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), DCO tools used for NetOps, with both NetOps and DCO solutions having SA/Analytics capabilities built into the tool. DISA leaders have used the DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) to analyze the CyberNetOps solutions capabilities needed by DISA. This analysis showed redundant, overlapping, and underused capabilities. Using these results, DISA leaders identified opportunities for increased efficiency with increases in useable functionality, as well as provide opportunity for new solutions to replace converged capabilities. This session will review the business case for convergence, show the operational categories in DISA’s system architecture, identify the need for an Network Function Virtualization/Software Defined Networking capability on both the network and the out of band telemetry system, identify our future planning for continued convergence, and show how our use of DevOps supports a high tempo continual patch and deploy sustainment practice using the CyberNetOps solutions division’s portfolio based material release schedule and systems engineering capabilities. Attendees can expect to hear DISA’s plan to converge CyberNetOps application and hardware solutions into a more capability and effective system as DoD moves closer to the Enterprise Operational Support System (EOSS) that is a part of the Joint Information Environment.