The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has started a program to test improvements in workstation security, particularly in a cloud computing environment.
“The commercial cloud and the numerous innovative technologies that it is spawning offers computer security professionals the ability to recreate a user environment that is fundamentally more secure than current workstation and virtual desktop offerings while still being accessible and affordable,” said an announcement regarding the launch of the Virtuous User Environment, or VirtUE, program.
“The goal of VirtUE is to create a user environment that is far more resilient to current phishing and web-based attacks. VirtUE will seek to reduce security engineering costs by enabling collaboration and the instant sharing of user security environments among organizations. All documentation and software that is produced by VirtUE performers will be released as open source products, supporting intelligence community-wide transparency efforts,” it said.
The first phase is to run through May 2019 involving four performance teams overseen by an outside test and evaluation advisor.
