Protecting the Crown Jewels. The Air Force is doing a “terrific job” of protecting its lower level applications from cyber attacks but not so with its “crown jewels,” says Kenneth Brodie, chief information security officer, for Air Force’s Office of Information Dominance and Chief Information officer. Brodie says at the annual Symantec government symposium that the “crown jewels, which are sitting on those backend databases and those ERPs (Enterprise Resource Planning) and mission planning systems and weapons systems, those are those are the things that when we start moving up into the application layer, we don’t pay enough attention to that. Things like software assurance and hardening applications. I just think that we do a very good job with that. We’re starting to move in that direction.”