Part III of the conversation with Amrit Williams, Michael Smith and Dan Philpott moves on to look at private sector adoption of government-developed IT security standards and policies, a field guide to current NIST FISMA documents, and which private organizations—mostly government contractors–must comply with government security standards. The discussion concludes on increasing government IT security spending and how the government will spend it. In particular, will the new spending emphasize tools and capital goods and relatively neglect developing human expertise in the field.

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