[amtap book:isbn=1934840807] The world does not change in discrete, binary steps. There is a great deal of continuity from the past to the present and on to the future. But many of us sense things are different in the world today. Technology is changing every life and every business, economic megatrends are producing changes, war and conflict and terrorism inject uncertainty, and the entire dynamic of human events is moving faster and faster. On … [Read more...]
Threats In the Age of Obama
January 30, 2009 By BobGourley
Filed Under: Books, CTO, Cyber Security Tagged With: Barack Obama, CCSA, cio, CTO, cyber, terrorism, The Future of Technology
We Have A Cyber Czar, and He Has Spoken
January 30, 2009 By BobGourley
A debate has been running for months both among government thought leaders and the technical literati on whether or not the US should appoint a "Cyber Czar" who can exert authority over IT security in the federal space or perhaps even aspects of the nation's IT defenses. This is a complex discussion that has had some of the greatest thinkers in and out of government involved. A great snapshot of issues and the opinions of many well reasoned experts … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cyber Security Tagged With: CCSA, CERT, cio, CTO, cyber, Enterprise, Network Security, Russian government, Technology Leadership, The Future of Technology, Vladimir Putin, YouTube
A Blog I Like: ShepherdsPi
January 28, 2009 By BobGourley
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Microsoft's Institute for Advanced Technologies in Governments, Lewis Shepherd, publishes a blog on technologies relevant to enterprises big and small. Lewis writes about tools, techniques and concepts in ways that bring home the real utility of advanced technologies. Recent posts have been on word-clouds and other ways of visualizing information, semantic constructs, flexible devices and of course … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CTO, Cyber Security Tagged With: Bill Gates, CTO, cyber, Disruptive IT, Enterprise, Great CTOs, microsoft, social media, Technology Leadership, The Future of Technology, vmware
Vint Cerf of Google and Bob Gourley of CTOvision.com on CIO Talk Radio
January 26, 2009 By BobGourley
On Wednesday 28 Jan 2009 at 10am Eastern I'll be on CIO Talk Radio with one of the stars of the global technology community, Vint Cerf. The topic we will be discussing is cloud computing and the next technology revolution in the US. Vint is fantastically qualified to discuss this topic, and I'm honored to be sharing a microphone with him and look forward to learning from the interaction. Every time I get the pleasure of interacting with Vint it ends … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cloud Computing, CTO Tagged With: Bob Gourley, cio, collaboration, CTO, Disruptive IT, Enterprise, Google, Great CTOs, IEEE, information technology, Internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names, ITU, microsoft, Security, standards, Tech/Internet, Technology Leadership, The Future of Technology
Social Media and the National Security Professional
January 24, 2009 By BobGourley
This is an update of an article I published last August in Social Computing Magazine (a great enterprise Web2.0 site edited by Dion Hinchcliffe). A key goal of this piece has been to encourage more in the national security world to use capabilities like Facebook, LinkedIn, Blogs, and of course Twitter. If you know someone you would like to encourage to use these sites please feel free to lift from this. If you know of other sites or capabilities … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CTO, Web2.0 Tagged With: Barack Obama, cio, Cloud Computing, collaboration, CTO, Enterprise, Facebook, Lewis Shepherd, LinkedIn, social media, Tech/Internet, technology, Technology Leadership, The Future of Technology, Twitter, vmware, Weblogs, YouTube
The Future of Cyber Security and Cyber Conflict
January 23, 2009 By BobGourley
As I write this there is evidence that the Russian's are once again attacking another country through massive denial of service attacks. For a recap with analysis you will not see elsewhere see The Kyrgyzstan Cyber Attack That No One Is Talking About . This is not the first time that a major nation state has been accused of launching attacks like this. Russia has been implicated as responsible for two other large scale attacks (Estonia and … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cyber Security Tagged With: Barack Obama, CCSA, Cloud Computing, CTO, cyber, Cyberspace, DoD, Enterprise, Melissa Hathaway, Network Security, Security, Tech/Internet
Steve Ballmer and Cloud Computing
January 21, 2009 By BobGourley
In this video Steve Ballmer shares some views on Cloud Computing and helps shed some light on why what we have now in most data centers is not really "cloud" computing in the technical sense. I think we all need to be ready to use the term two ways. When talking to users and non-technical types we will probably always hear the term used to refer to anything that occurs in a different location, and this is the simplest definition of the term. In that … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cloud Computing, CTO Tagged With: Cloud Computing, CTO, Disruptive IT, Enterprise, microsoft, Tech/Internet
Federal Government Technology Directions and the Fed CTO
January 19, 2009 By BobGourley
Technologists in and out of government have been very excited about the work of the Obama transition team, especially the work of their technologists. A group known as the TIGR (Technology, Innovation and Government Reform) Team has brought some of the best and brightest minds together to strategize and impact the action plans of the federal government. We have now been treated to an insider's view into the workings of this team. The Change.gov … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cloud Computing, CTO Tagged With: apps, Barack Obama, cio, Cloud Computing, collaboration, CTO, cyber, Disruptive IT, Enterprise, Google, Great CTOs, innovation, Mashup, R&D, social media, standards, Tech/Internet, Technology Leadership, The Future of Technology, Vivek Kundra, vmware, Web/Tech
Government 2.0 Camp 27-28 March 2009 in DC
January 17, 2009 By BobGourley
Have you ever heard of an Unconference? Have you ever heard of a BarCamp? If these are new terms please read on, there are some important aspects of these concepts that CTOs should be familiar with. And there is a specific BarCamp Unconference coming up 27-28 March in the DC area focused on Gov2.0 that I'll mention below. But first, back to those two terms. An Unconference is a participant driven conference, normally facilitated, but never … [Read more...]
Filed Under: CTO, Web2.0 Tagged With: apps, Barack Obama, Cloud Computing, collaboration, CTO, Disruptive IT, Enterprise, Gov2.0, innovation, Mark Drapeau, social media, technology, Technology Leadership, The Future of Technology, Vivek Kundra, vmware
Cloud Computing and Net Centric Operations
January 14, 2009 By BobGourley
I've just posted a draft paper on my site on the topic of Cloud Computing and DoD's Net Centric Operations. My intent with this paper is to keep beating it up till it is in condition to publish, and I would value your comments on the paper. Please check it out at: Cloud_Computing_and_Net_Centric_Operations-3 [late entry: for an updated version of that paper see: http://www.whitehouse.gov/cyberreview/documents/ ] One of the things I learned while … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Cloud Computing, CTO Tagged With: Adobe, AFCEA, Cloud Computing, collaboration, CTO, cyber, DISA, Disruptive IT, DoD, Enterprise, Network Security, Tech/Internet, Technology Leadership, Thin Client, Twitter