greg wilshusen is the director of information security at gao. jill itorros at washington business journal. this has been "the communicators." >> sunday on "newsmakers", senator tom harkin, chairman of the health education and labor and pensions committee. he will talk about the committee's work on the child left behind act. also the status of jobs legislation. that is at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> tomorrow on washington journal, the talk about the future of libya. alex lawson, the executive director of social security worke, has details of the 6.3% increase in benefits next year. and a political roundtable with politico's senior reporter

from wilshusen -- mr. wilshusen, again, just to follow up on jill's question, is there a government-wide system or standard that is used for security information, or is it each agency does what each agency wants? >> guest: there are federal government information processing standards that are developed and promulgated by the national institute of standards and technology. in addition -- nist also issues special publications, and these are information security guidelines that are recommended or suggested for federal agencies to use. in addition, ohb, office of management and budget, issues policy memorandums as art of its oversight role of federal activities. so there are government-wide policies and procedures as well as standards. and at the same time, though, federal agencies need to assess the risk and alie those standards -- apply those standards as they pertain to their own environments. so they're going to need to be able to assess the risk and determine which appropriate controls are necessary to mi

greg wilshusen is the director of information security issues at the gao. jill aitoro, senior reporter at the "washington business journal." this has been "the communicators." >> middle and high school students it's time to get those cameras rolling for this year c-span student kim video competition. make a five to eight minute video on this year's theme, the constitution and you come and get it to c-span by the deadline of january 20 and he can win the grand prize

having said that i would like to ask this question of miss wilshusen. did you look at federal agencies in using public cloud for undertaking this effort? what lessons did you learn and how did you apply them? what about private sector experiences? >> we certainly have within our strategy had numerous discussions with other federal government agencies, nasa, veterans administration, both of which have been aggressive in looking at cloud capabilities. we talked to a number of c r os within private sector firms as well as my staff who was involved in reaching out and and was well as advisory services that work in the it industry and serve that industry. a few lessons learned and we are still learning a lot of these lessons, one of our biggest issues beyond security which is the biggest issue, the next one is fundamentally a different business model. it changes, we are buying a service level agreement, we are not purchasing hardware or licensing software or integrating together. it is fundamentally how we procure this is very different. we have been working

find out more with the head of information securities, greg wilshusen tonight on "the communicators" on c-span2. "washington journal" continues. host: more about jobs now. on your screen, mark inspire peopley, c -- pinske, c.e.o., to talk to us about something called the create jobs for u.s.a. initiative. thanks for joining us. explain this new initiative. all about? guest: i'm happy to. thanks for having me on. we have partnered with starbucks to try to raise capital that will help finance job creation and job retention across the united states. very simply, the way it works is anyone who wants to make a donation of $5 or more can do that. and they can do that either on the web at createjobsforusa.org or by going into a starbucks store. and those who do will receive a red, white, and blue wrist band. but the real purpose is it will come to opportunity finance network which will quickly turn around and put that money back out into communities through a network of things called community development financial institutions or cdfi's. and those cdfi's are in the business of financing co

find out more with the gao's head of security greg wilshusen tonight on c-span2.middle and high school students it's time to get those cameras rolling for this year's c-span studentcam video competition. make a 5 to 8-minute video on this year's theme the constitution and you and get it to c-span by the deadline of january 20th and you could win the grand prize of $5,000. for complete details go to studentcam.org. >> capitol hill has a meeting for the congressional republican health care caucus. today the group will hear from a former american medical association lobbyist and a health insurance broker. you're watching live coverage on c-span2. >> okay, let's go ahead and call this forum of health caucus together. welcome to everyone who's here today. welcome to all who are watching on the internet and i would remind those who are watching the live stream of this, that your questions can be tweeted to health caucus and they will be included in the question and answer period. we have two very informed and informative panelists today. we're going to hear from them in

greg wilshusen is the information security issues director at the government accountability office.