GSA's veteran CISO retires
The long-time chief of the General Services Administration's IT security program retired at the end of June to move halfway around the world.
Kurt Garbars, who served as the General Service Administration's chief information security officer for almost 20 years, retired and relocated to Australia's southern coast.
According to his LinkedIn page, Garbars' last day at the agency was June 30.
Garbars said he moved to Adelaide in the state of South Australia to pursue a master's degree in winemaking. His retirement was first reported by FedScoop.
During his 17 years as GSA CISO, Garbars created the Lightweight Authority to Operate process aimed at making compliance and reporting requirements more agile, but still backed by tangible security.
A GSA official confirmed to FCW that Bo Berlas, who had been director of security, has stepped in as acting CISO.
Berlas is also a long-time GSA security official, steeped in creating secure processes for the agency. In 2012, when he was a senior IT security specialist at GSA, he received a Fed 100 award for his work on shepherding analysis and accreditation processes for the agency's infrastructure-as-a-service contract.
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