This was the keynote presentation at the Argyle Atlanta CIO Conference.

1. Innovation, Agility, and a Fight
for Survival: A Love Story
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and CIO
Board of Regents
University System of Georgia

2. Virtual Library
3,300 mile Private Cloud
Distance Education
Enterprise Security and ePrivacy
Enterprise Financials
Collaboration
Student Information
Enterprise BI
Software Store
Learning Management
Library Operations

3. Agenda
• Fight For Survival
• Innovation and
Agility
• A Love Story

4. This space for rent by
Chinese National Army.
Please contact Dr. Curt
Carver as we can read all
his email anyway.
PREMISE 1: GROWING THREAT

5. Emerging Threats
(on a scale of 1 to 10)
10 United States,
United Kingdom,
Russia
7
China
3
Iran

6. Can You Defend Against
100,000 Professionally
Trained Hackers?

7. 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.

8. PREMISE 2: WHAT IS THE TRUTH?

9. First Rule of the Internet
Agreement does not scale

11. Effect of the WWW on the Normal
Curve of Behavior?

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

13. 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]

14. INNOVATION AND AGILITY

15. 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.

16. The Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development
http://www.oecd.org

17. With Education You are Seeing…
• Consolidation
• MOOCs, flipped classrooms, adaptive
everything
• Cloud Services
• BYOD, BYOI, BYON
• Analytics
• Globalization

18. 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?

19. 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.

20. Questions, Comments, a
Conversation
Dr. Curtis A. Carver Jr.
Vice Chancellor and CIO
Board of Regents
University System of Georgia