March Z007
North Carolina Department of Correction
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MIS plans to update
assessment of security
RALEIGH I Management Information Systems
(MIS) will soon have an independent assess¬
ment of the department’s information security
posture, and Michael Singletary will lead the
division’s initiative. The assessment will be
a collaborative effort conducted by the State
Auditor’s Office and security specialists from
the Symantec Corporation.
As MIS has been addressing security is¬
sues that were revealed in a 2003 assessment,
it has realized that additional resources are
Michael needed, said Singletary, the department’s re-
Singletary cently-hired chief information security officer.
“First, we must take a management ap¬
proach to attack the problems,” he said. “We need to
become more proactive rather than reactive; we need
to seek to prevent problems, rather than waiting to re¬
spond when a problem occurs.”
The new assessment, which was slated to begin the
first week of April, will identify what progress has been
made since 2003, and what still needs to be done. Sin¬
gletary expects the review will be completed within two
months .
“We have an idea now of what needs to be done, but
the assessment will give us an independent third party
analysis of our present condition.”
Singletary will have a core team of three persons -
himself; Kim Smodic, a network security specialist; and
another person soon to he named to fill the network se¬
curity analyst position.
In addition to enhancing DOC’s information security
policy-making, Singletary sees his section taking on
three vital roles related to managing information secu¬
rity: monitoring, employee awareness and consultation.
“We must keep our guard up for such dangers as
Gwen Norville
OSDT growth leads
to leadership addition
RALEIGH I The growth of the Department
of Correction’s training needs has result¬
ed in the addition of an assistant direc¬
tor for the Officer & Staff Development
Training division. Filling the position is
Gwen Norville, formerly executive officer
for the Division of Prisons (DOP).
The appointment was announced by
Dan Lilly, OSDT director.
“Since its inception, OSDT has provided, coordinated,
scheduled and evaluated training throughout the De¬
partment of Correction,” Lilly said. “DOC training needs
have expanded from field sites to the Justice Academy,
to on-site sessions for new institutions and to regional
response to division needs.”
Lilly said OSDT began 25 years ago with a staff of
nine employees and has grown to more than 50 employ¬
ees in five regional assignment sites across the state.
“The addition of the assistant director position will
ensure we stay focused on the new millennium training
needs of DOC and the strategic training initiative,” he
said.
Norville brings the assets of executive management
experience in the Division of Prisons and an OSDT
knowledge base, Lilly said.
Among Norville’s responsibilities are:
► Job task analyses for basic and intermediate curricu-
lums.
► Training delivery and evaluations, technologies and
curriculum development.
► Seeking innovations and resources available for the
continued expansion of deliverable services.
► Working with the Curriculum Management Section
to coordinate reports on training consistency and stan¬
dards compliance.
Norville has been a certified instructor since 1991
and has received numerous specialty instructor certi-
See SECURITY, page 3
See NORVILLE, page 3
DOC helps DOT ‘sweep’
CHARLOTTE I The Department of
Correction teamed up in March with
two other state government agen¬
cies to attack the state’s litter prob¬
lem in the Charlotte area.
DOC assigned additional inmate
work crews to pick up litter along
stretches of 1-77 in the greater
Charlotte area over a three- weekend
period. The work was coordinated
with the Department of Transporta¬
tion and the Department of Crime
Control and Public Safety.
Besides additional inmate litter
crews, more Highway Patrol officers
Charlotte area highways
kept an eye out for littering and
helped ensure traffic safety while
lanes of 1-77 were closed during the
litter pickup.
DOC relocated inmate crews
from Cabarrus, Cleveland and Gas¬
ton counties to assist in the effort.
A total of 60 minimum-security
inmates each day picked up and
bagged litter, which DOT crews col¬
lected and hauled to the landfill.
“The Department of Correction
welcomes this plan to help restore
the appearance of Charlotte area
See LITTER, page 4
Correctional Officer Thomas Felton, Char¬
lotte CC, demonstrates the spirit of coop¬
eration among participating agencies as he
chats with a Department of Transportation
supervisor.
