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Military cyber defenders face a tough challenge. Many of them have been trained in warfighting specialties like aviation, infantry, amphibious operations, submarine warfare etc, then one day they wake up with orders to a unit with operational cyber defense responsibilities. I've seen great champions from these disciplines, including F-14 pilots and RIOs, make fantastic contributions to operational network defense and have many life-long friends who … [Read more...]
Today DoD released its new Strategy for Operations in Cyberspace. We have all seen parts of this before, the DoD has done a great job of providing their intention via the speeches and testimony of senior leaders as well as articles published in leading journals. So those who track cyber security strategy will find few surprises in the document. Overall: I give this document very high marks for capturing the framework of actions that need to be … [Read more...]
Note: The following piece from the Pentagon's news service is being provided as a service to our readers, most of whom track this type of information very closely. Lynn: Cyber Strategy’s Thrust is Defensive By Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, July 14, 2011 – In March, a cyber attack on a defense company’s network captured 24,000 files containing Defense Department information. Nations typically launch such … [Read more...]
Response to our newly designed e-mail reports has been overwhelmingly positive. That makes us happy to continue doing what we love doing, which is all focused on informing you on the relevance of hot technology issues. We now support four key technology products delivered by e-mail. You can sign up for any using forms on this site or at this link: http://eepurl.com/ezkJE You can also contact us by form or e-mail and just let us know what distros … [Read more...]
In March we announced our move of CTOvision.com to a new Rackspace Cloud Site capability. After testing we also moved CTOlabs.com and, CrucialPointLLC.com there, and things were so easy/fast/enjoyable we later established DoDIIStech.com there. Using Rackspace gave us must faster performance and many other features. Lately things started to go wrong, however. I started getting error messages when I logged into the admin panels of my sites. My friend … [Read more...]
IBM's Watson, an artificial intelligence computer system which famously defeated two all-time Jeopardy! quiz show champions, may soon go from playing games to answering questions in the workplace and call centers as IBM looks to modify the technology for business. Watson was powered by distributed computing technologies such as Apache Hadoop, which was used for pre-processing, to answer the game's queries on diverse subjects from science to popular … [Read more...]
Dear CTOvision.com reader, If you are a professional with experience in cyber security and federal IT we would appreciate some help with a research project. The results of this research will be made public (you can be anonymous if you wish). The goal of this research is to provide helpful insights and inputs to the DFARS process regarding proposed cyber security rules for DoD contractors. Here is a link to the … [Read more...]
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab have been developing a suite of technologies to analyze social interactions that are now hitting the market. In one project, actors mimed emotions and volunteers interpreted their expressions. The majority answers were added to a database that serves as a visual library of expressions which is compared to realtime footage using 24 feature points on the face. Researchers incorporated this technology to glasses with … [Read more...]
There has been a lot of hype in the last week or so around the launch of Google+, the new social media project from the search engine juggernaut. Even the talk about the rumors surrounding the fall launch of iPhone 5 have been dwarfed by the topic. I have not yet had the pleasure of gaining access to G+, but I am awaiting my invite any day. Based on preliminary reviews and the features that it claims to have mastered, I believe G+ has great … [Read more...]
According to a review recently put out by the the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) was faced with a riddle. In recent years, violent crime and assaults on officers have been declining, training has been adapted to focus more on deescalating conflicts and avoiding physical confrontations, the department procured and trained officers on less-lethal weaponry, a non-disciplinary Early Warning System was put in … [Read more...]