VA's chief information security officer resigns

GovExec.com tells us that the CISO for the VA says he wasn’t able to do his job and implement security.

The chief information security officer for the Veterans Affairs Department, who resigned Thursday and was subsequently placed on paid administrative leave for his final two weeks of employment, said Friday that he had been prevented from fixing the department's information security weaknesses.

CISO Pedro Cadenas, in an interview with Government Executive, said that the department's recently crafted IT policy changes placed the responsibility for fixing years of neglect directly on his shoulders.