John Nemoto
Vice President, CGI Federal
John Nemoto leveraged cloud technology via the $7 billion Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to introduce various FedRAMP-approved cybersecurity solutions, greatly improving the security of over 65 federal agencies.
In compliance with the cyber executive order, he led a team in the deployment and management of industry-leading cloud-based endpoint detection and response tools at CISA, resulting in CGI being the first federal integrator to complete such mission critical deployment at any federal agency through the CDM program.
As part of the mandate, Nemoto and his team built and delivered these critical security capabilities through a shared services cloud platform that also provides the enablement of a major CISA priority, the Persistent Access Capability. This tool allows CISA’s cyber experts to see into top SaaS tools used throughout federal networks in real-time. This enhances their ability to actively find and address cyber threats in federal networks, systems and cloud platforms.
Why Watch
Nemoto’s team is addressing AI dangers, particularly from cloud-based AI systems, by developing AI and machine learning models. These models analyze vast amounts of data from cloud systems to better detect cyber threats and significantly speed up response times for stopping and fixing security risks.
“We need to be ready, willing, and able to continuously re-assess and re-adapt what tools we are going to bring to the evolving threat vectors,” Nemoto said. “We also need to be agile in our approach, and realize that previous successes may no longer be applicable. The ever-increasing and evolving cyber threats we face, the duality of emerging technologies —these require leaders and experts to be more innovative, collaborative, and agile in our strategies across the cloud landscape.”
