Zafesoft provides enterprises with new means of securing content while ensuring users get access to the info they need. The designers of the technology are some of the greatest minds in the security business. The company CEO, Sandeep Tiwari is a world renowned IT business professional with extensive experience in delivering functionality at scale. He has also created technologies and has a history of success. Zafesoft's co-founder A Shukla has two … [Read more...]
National Security Strategy as Art
February 9, 2011 By
Wordle is a capability for generating "word clouds" from text. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the body of the text. The Wordle below was created based on the newly released 2011 National Security Strategy. Wordle of the US Military Strategy 2011 What conclusions can you draw about our strategy from this art? Probably not many. But it is interesting to note that intelligence is just about missing … [Read more...]
CTOs: Provide your inputs on how the government will implement cloud computing constructs
February 8, 2011 By
Our nation's technologists have always come to the aide of their nation. There are many great exemplars in this domain. two of my personal favorites are: Edwin Land, inventor famous for his work on consumer cameras but also a key designer of reconnaissance systems (including the U2). Frederick Terman, the thinker most responsible for creating what is now Silicon Valley, and the lead researcher on some of the most significant US/allied technologies in … [Read more...]
Looxcie: a wearable camcorder that streams via bluetooth to your phone
February 4, 2011 By
Looxcie is a great device that lets you film exactly what you see. I've been testing one out for the last several weeks and have enjoyed learning about it and thinking about its potential uses in the enterprise. It has a lightweight, over the ear form factor that frees your hands and eyes up while capturing video and audio. Looxcie (pronounced Look-See) is fun to use and when combined with its very low cost and well engineered capabilities will likely … [Read more...]
The most well thought out research agenda for cyber security I have seen to date
February 2, 2011 By
Opinion: the most mature research agenda on the topic of cyber security is the one established by our nation's Department of Homeland Security. I'm keeping an open mind, and would love to learn of other cyber security research agenda's that might be as well defined. But I have to tell you I have seen research programs associated with cyber for years and this one is impressive. The details of the topic areas of this research activity are embedded in a … [Read more...]
Recap of the Government Big Data Forum of 26 Jan 2011
February 1, 2011 By
On 26 January 2011 government IT professionals, federally-focused systems integrators and IT vendors met in the Government Big Data Forum to dialog on issues of common concern on the topic of overwhelming data. This event, sponsored by Carahsoft, included presentations, discussions, panels and a tech expo all focused on the issue of "Big Data" in the federal enterprise. Attendees heard from speakers like Dawn Meyerriecks, Deputy Director of … [Read more...]