La Agencia de Sistemas de Informaci\u00f3n de Defensa (DISA) est\u00e1 lidiando con una monta\u00f1a de \u201cdeuda tecnol\u00f3gica\u201d, y la situaci\u00f3n s\u00f3lo empeora a medida que evoluciona la nueva tecnolog\u00eda, dijeron el mi\u00e9rcoles los l\u00edderes de DISA en TechNet Cyber en Baltimore.\u00a0La deuda tecnol\u00f3gica se produce cuando ya hay una gran cantidad de tecnolog\u00eda obsoleta en una organizaci\u00f3n y luego se le a\u00f1ade tecnolog\u00eda nueva. Eso, explicaron los l\u00edderes de DISA, significa que la actualizaci\u00f3n de la tecnolog\u00eda antigua queda relegada al final de la cola, dej\u00e1ndola envejecer cada vez m\u00e1s, aunque siga utiliz\u00e1ndose de forma habitual.<\/p>\n
TECHNET CYBER 2024 \u2014 The\u00a0Defense Information Systems Agency<\/a>\u00a0(DISA) is dealing with a mountain of \u201ctechnology debt,\u201d and it\u2019s only getting worse as new technology evolves, DISA leaders at TechNet Cyber in Baltimore said Wednesday.<\/p>\n Technology debt happens when there are already heaps of outdated technology within an organization, and then new technology is piled on top. That, DISA leaders explained, means updating the old technology gets kicked to the back of the queue, leaving it to grow older and older even as it remains used on a regular basis.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we are not updating and modernizing the way that we should be along the way, we tend to build out that technical debt so it becomes more expensive,\u201d said Caroline Bean, director of joint enterprise services at DISA, during a media roundtable here in Baltimore Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe need to make sure that technical debt is not pre-framed as just cost. There\u2019s a lot more that comes with technical debt. There\u2019s people, there\u2019s operational aspect, there\u2019s efficiencies.\u201d<\/p>\n The technology debt within DISA is so extreme that Bean said they are still running a system that was created in the 1970s. She explained that the problem with such legacy systems is that they are no longer sustainable, with the people who know how to sustain them becoming a rarity and original parts hard to find.<\/p>\n Those legacy systems also pose cybersecurity risks,\u00a0Brian Hermann<\/a>, cybersecurity and analytics director at\u00a0DISA, said during a panel discussion Wednesday.<\/p>\n \u201cIt [technology debt] amounts to, essentially, cyber risks when we have capabilities that have not evolved over the course of the last 10 years,\u201d Hermann said.<\/p>\n