Think being an information security administrator is easy? Ann Garrett chief security officer at the North Carolina Office of Information Technology in Raleigh.

Think being an information security administrator is easy?

Ann Garrett chief security officer at the North Carolina Office of Information Technology in Raleigh, would probably say ???think again.???

Garrett, who began making security changes at the North Carolina Department of mercantile relations in 1998, has, by 2001 revolutionized the state government's information security deeds

???[Security] has really grown into what it stand in want ofs to be ??” a centralized function,??? says Garrett. ???We had a ne for centralized security, and the pieces have tend hitherward together as a whole. We're now with the national stretch [toward greater computer security] ??” we have arrived, and it makes me proud???

MANAGING SECURITY FOR AN ENORMOUS NETWORK

From the beginning, Garrett has been responsible for security administration at the state's data center which houses a total of 70000 mainframe accounts. The North Carolina Integrated Information Network (NCIIN) is an Internet service provider for state agencies and local