Innovation, Agility, and a Fight for Survival: A Love Story

Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and CIO

Board of RegentsUniversity System of Georgia

3,300 mile Private CloudVirtual Library Software Store

Enterprise Security and ePrivacy

Distance Education Learning Management

Enterprise Financials Enterprise BI

Library OperationsStudent Information

Collaboration

Agenda• Fight For Survival

• Innovation and Agility

• A Love Story

PREMISE 1: GROWING THREAT

This space for rent by Chinese National Army. Please contact Dr. Curt

Carver as we can read all his email anyway.

Emerging Threats(on a scale of 1 to 10)

10 United States, United Kingdom, Russia

11 China

3 Iran

Can You Defend Against 100,000 Professionally

Trained Hackers?

Consider Mandiant Report on AG1

• Believed to be People’s Liberation Army Unit 61398.

• State sponsored, state funded, state secret.

• Since 2006, they have compromised 141 companies spanning 20 major industries.

• Maintained access for an average of 356 days. Longest measured access was 1,764 days.

PREMISE 2: WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

First Rule of the InternetAgreement does not scale

Effect of the WWW on the Normal Curve of Behavior?

It is the best of times, for morons and geniuses alike.

Quick Recap

We live in a world of growing threats where a battle for the truth rages conducted by morons and geniuses alike, operating from safe havens created by a flattening of the norms of human behavior which threaten the very existence of mankind…. [run-on but

very depressing sentence continues]

INNOVATION AND AGILITY

Innovation and Agility• There is a need for constant innovation. If you are

not moving forward, you are falling behind, rapidly.• You are not really innovating unless you are failing

occasionally.• There is a need for constantly increasing agility or, • Do money-making things faster for less, forever.

http://www.oecd.org

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

With Education You are Seeing…

• Consolidation• MOOCs, flipped classrooms, adaptive

everything• Cloud Services• BYOD, BYOI, BYON• Analytics• Globalization

Key Decisions Needed Now• Rather than focus solely on preventing security attacks, how can

I improve my response?

• How do I sense and respond quickly to a rapidly changing environment?

• How do I build an innovative organizational culture that fails gracefully?

• How do I lose control safely?

Why a Love Story?• Threats create

opportunities.

• Change creates opportunities.

• CIOs sense these changes and threats first and must embrace their role as CIOs and CSOs.

Questions, Comments, a Conversation

Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.Vice Chancellor and CIO

Board of Regents University System of Georgia