3rd Infantry Division The Frontline May 13, 2010 - Fort Stewart ...

2A The Frontline May 13, 2010
Lt. Gen. Rick Lynch
Commanding General, IMCOM
Defender 6
The Installation Management
Community is committed to leveraging
the power of technology to expand our
communication capabilities and
enhance our ability to serve and support
Soldiers, Army Civilians and
Families. In today's world, information
technology is at the core of all we do at
work, at home, and at play. Smaller,
more powerful and less expensive IT
products hit the market every day.
Becoming savvy with state-of-the-art
technology helps us work smarter,
learn more efficiently and play harder.
Over the past six months, I have visited
many garrisons, listening to many
members of the Army Family to better
understand how they prefer to receive
information and communicate.
Because more than 75 percent communicate
and retrieve information
through the Internet and other electronic
means, I now communicate
through my Facebook page and the
IMCOM Twitter, Flickr and YouTube
sites. This implements the Deputy
Command Sgt. Maj. James Ervin
Garrison Command Sergeant Major
What do Will Smith, Bill Gates, and one
out of eight Americans have in common?
All have been victims of identity theft,
11 million victims in 2009 to be exact! An
eye-opening 12-percent increase from
the year before.
In 2009, the U.S. Government had more
than 79 million records compromised
that contained Personally Identifiable
Information. All of us have to do a better
job in protecting PII while in the performance
of our duties.
We have a personal obligation and a
regulatory responsibility to ensure that we
and our organizations do our part by:
• Encrypting all e-mails containing PII.
• Shredding documents that contain
PII when no longer operationally
required.
• Securing Mobile PII data; positive
personal security control when transporting.
Identity theft is also becoming a serious
problem with the advancement of social
networking sites, innovative approaches
to steal your identity pop up each week. It
is becoming a constant struggle to protect
yourself from criminal activity and to
ensure your personal data is safe. You
wouldn’t give your personal information
Kevin Larson
Fort Stewart Public Affairs
Secretary of Defense,
Feb. 25, 2010, memorandum
that requires DoD
unclassified networks be
configured for Internetbased
capabilities like
YouTube, Facebook,
MySpace, Twitter and
Google Apps.
Because IT is so critical
to how we do business
and communicate,
I have made IT one of
the focus areas of the
Services and Infrastructure Core
Enterprise in my role as co-lead of the
SICE board. SICE is a collaborative and
cross-functional team of more than 15
commands, organizations, and staff
offices formed to develop solutions to
Army-wide challenges. Presently, the
SICE team is developing plans to modernize
and standardize IT services on
Army installations. The results will
enhance delivery of IT in the deployment
process, training, and programs
such as Comprehensive Soldier Fitness.
Also, look for improved IT to lead to
improvements on how we deliver on
Installation Management Command recently unveiled both its campaign plan outlining
how every Soldier, Family Member, and Civilian plays a vital role in supporting
our nation's warriors and a new IMCOM logo.
The plan is a living document that focuses on six areas, or "lines of effort:"
Soldier, Family and Civilian Readiness; Soldier, Family and Civilian Well Being;
Leader and Workforce Development; Installation Readiness; Safety; and Energy
Efficiency and Security. The new IMCOM brand showcases the installations
importance as the Army's home.
"All agencies and directorates will integrate these lines of effort in their operations
and implement the IMCOM strategy," said Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield Garrison
Commander Col. Kevin Milton.
The new logo, developed to coincide with the 2010-2017 Installation Management
Campaign Plan rollout and to run in conjunction with the IMCOM emblem, is representative
of the four major facets of Army community life: stewardship, readiness,
facilities and Families, said chief of Strategic Communications of Assistant Chief of Staff
for Installation Management/IMCOM Kathy Aydt.
"You have the green with the tree which symbolizes our stewardship," she said. "You
have the flag at the top that symbolizes our readiness in support of the Army. You see
the facilities, the structures which represent the infrastructure that we're responsible for
and of course you see the Family grouping at the bottom. You may note that you can't
tell who are Soldiers, or if there are Soldiers there...we also have a large civilian workforce
that is very important to us. In this day and age not only Soldiers deploy but [so
do] civilians. Those things were intentionally built into this logo, and probably on some
level it's why it has such a wide appeal."
The campaign plan will deliver sustainable installation communities that
ensure a mission-ready Army by empower strong Soldiers and resilient Families,
Col. Milton said. The first priority is to ensure Soldiers and Army Civilians are
ready to answer the nation's call.
"Here at Stewart-Hunter, we will implement the plan by developing and sustaining
programs, services and capabilities that meet the needs of our Senior Commander to
our promises of the
Army Family Covenant
and Army Community
Covenant.
The most important
components of IT – telecommunications,information
assurance and
data processing – tie into
every aspect of installation
management. We
use telecommunications
to connect Soldiers to
their Families by video
teleconference when they deploy. Techsmart
Soldiers and Family Members
use it when they ‘tweet’ to friends and
Family through their Twitter accounts.
Information assurance measures and
practices reduce risk and ensure our
communication and information
remain secure from malicious attacks.
IA enables Soldiers and Civilians to
communicate with government-issued
Blackberries, knowing conversations
are secure from unauthorized individuals.
Most of us use data processing to
manage our bits and bytes of information
each day when we work on desk-
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Supporting Army Soldiers, Civilians and their Families with IT
top computers, laptops, scanners and
copiers. And cell phones may be the
most powerful device of all since they
incorporate all three of these IT components.
Every day, the universe of IT products
expands. Mobile handheld devices
like the current generation of smartphones
open up possibilities only
dreamed of a few years ago. The convergence
of cell phones, digital cameras,
music players, GPS, video games,
camcorders, electronic book readers
and mobile Web browsers rapidly
change how we communicate and
interact.
As the IMCOM commander, I am
dedicated to embracing these new,
exciting technologies and adapting
them to continue to be ahead of the
curve in supporting Soldier, Army
Civilian and Family well-being and
mission readiness. Each generation of
Soldiers brings a valuable, new perspective
to the Army. It is up to us to
stay in step with communication capabilities
that are in synch with a quality
of life commensurate with service.
We Are the Army’s Home.
From the CSMs Desk: Fight back against identity theft
unwittingly to a complete
stranger, but the harsh reality
is you are doing this
every time you sign up to a
SNS.
Two out of three online
U.S. households use social
networks such as Facebook
and MySpace, nearly twice
as many as a year ago,
according to the latest
Consumer Reports State of
the Net survey.
The Consumer Reports
National Research Center also states that:
• A projected 1.7 million online households
had experienced online identity
theft in the past year.
• An estimated 5.4 million online consumers
submitted personal information
to e-mail (phishing) scammers during the
past two years.
• Among adult social network users, 38
percent had posted their full birth date,
including year. Forty-five percent of those
with children had posted their children’s
photos. And 8 percent had posted their
own street address.
• An estimated 5.1 million online households
had experienced some type of abuse
on a social network in the past year,
including malware infections, scams, and
harassment.
The Consumer Reports
recommends seven things
to stop doing now on
Facebook:
1. Using a Weak
Password: A password
should have at least eight
characters. One good
technique is to insert
numbers or symbols in
the middle of a word, such
as the word "houses":
hO27usEs!
2. Leaving your full birth
date in your profile: It's an ideal target for
identity thieves. If you've already entered
a birth date, go to your profile page and
click on the Info tab, then on Edit
Information. Under the Basic Information
section, choose to show only the month
and day or no birthday at all.
3. Overlooking useful privacy controls:
Restrict access to photos, birth date, religious
views, and Family information,
among other things. You can give only
certain people or groups access to items
such as photos, or block particular people
from seeing them.
4. Posting your child's name in a caption:
Don't use a child's name in photo
tags or captions. If someone else does,
delete it by clicking on Remove Tag. If your
child isn't on Facebook and someone
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includes his or her name in a caption, ask
that person to remove the name.
5. Mentioning that you'll be away from
home: That's like putting a "no one's
home" sign on your door.
6. Letting search engines find you: To
help prevent strangers from accessing
your page, go to the Search section of
Facebook's privacy controls and select
Only Friends for Facebook search results.
Be sure the box for public search results
isn't checked.
7. Permitting youngsters to use
Facebook unsupervised: The best way to
provide oversight is to become one of
their online friends. Use your e-mail
address as the contact for their account so
that you receive their notifications and
monitor their activities.
I encourage the entire community
help us deter identity theft by being proactive
and realizing your identity is not
SAFE until you take steps protecting
your information.
Protect yourself and your Family
Members, prevent identity theft by also
destroying personal documents that
contain PII, which are no longer required.
To support this effort DPTMS and DPW
is sponsoring a Shred It…Don’t Share it
Day, May 18-19. For more information,
contact the DPTMS Security Division at
912-767-8613.
ensure that the 3rd ID and our tenant
units are trained and ready forces,"
he said. "Our Families resiliency
will be strengthened under the plan.
We will support the readiness needs
of the units that call Stewart-Hunter
home so we can ensure they can win
the current fight and be prepared for
the next."
Hand-in-hand with empowerment
is well being. This line of effort
focuses on renewing community relations to ensure high quality of life for Soldiers,
Families and Army Civilians.
"We are blessed with the finest neighbors possible here at Stewart-Hunter," Col.
Milton said. "The Army Community Covenant is alive and well here. This line of effort
for us is simply a recommitment to what is already true, that love and support flows
freely onto our installation from outside the gates."
Additionally, well being efforts will standardize and fund existing Family programs
and services and ensure that the Army Family Covenant continues to provide for all
Soldiers - single or married - and Families.
Leader and workforce development is vital to the plans’ success because professional
leaders leading a talented and motivated workforce will successfully execute the
mission, Col. Milton said.
"Our primary objective is to build and sustain a cadre of agile and adaptable leaders
and a multi-skilled workforce committed to delivering quality services to our Army
community," he said.
Workforce development rolls into installation readiness, which touches on the
energy, sustainability, and cost culture lines of effort, Col. Milton said.
"Installation readiness is all about sustaining resources and streamlining processes,"
he said. "We will manage installation facilities and support services to meet the needs
of generating and operating forces and other organizations' needs within the limits of
our resources."
The final line of effort – Safety – proactively and aggressively ensures the safe and
secure installations for Soldiers, Families and Civilians by making safety everyone's
responsibility.
"We have an inherent obligation to provide a safe and healthy environment for our
Army Family," Col. Milton said. "We are firmly committed to a growing culture of
safety awareness that pervades our daily operations and activities, both on and off
Stewart-Hunter, and which guide our actions at all times."
Editor’s note: Information for this article was taken from:
www.army.mil/-news/2010/04/08/37010-new-imcom-logo-to-illustrate- 2010-2017campaign-plan/