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The Judges for the 2011 Government Big Data Solutions Award have reported back and results have been tabulated. Judges had to choose from a diverse and large set of nominees in 2011, and we can only assume that the list will grow for 2012. It was great working with an all start team of professionals who know Big Data capabilities and government mission needs. Our judges included: Doug Cutting (creator of Lucene and Hadoop), Alan Wade (former CIA and … [Read more...]
Richard Spires, CIO of DHS, provided written testimony on 12 services that they have moved to the cloud. The first service often moved to the cloud is email, which DHS has started by putting FEMA's email to the cloud. They have 8 private clouds already set up, and 3 services in the public clouds. The private cloud services are below: SharePoint as a Service - "We are currently migrating Headquarters and United States Citizenship and Immigration … [Read more...]
In this week's Blog Talk Radio, Bob Gourley and John Dodge talk about the new avenues of attack in the cyber world. In addition, they hit on the #cloudsecurity tweets of the week on Twitter. Highlights of the re-tweets are an interview with CIA CTO Gus Hunt and some thoughts on moving from a private cloud to a public cloud. The two also hit on topics like HP's integrated suite of security tools and the importance of testing applications, especially web … [Read more...]
During the recent GEOINT conference I spoke with SGI and Cloudera about the meaning of their recent announcement. They just announced a strategic agreement where SGI will ship Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Enterprise Management Suite factory installed on SGI Hadoop Clusters. Although this is good news for both companies there is better news for users of Apache Hadoop. Benchmarking of this Cloudera CDH/SGI platform … [Read more...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rF3Q2ewa4E In an interview at the HP Protect 2011 conference on Monday, September 12, 2011. Bob Gourley and Tom Reilly, Vice President and General Manger of Enterprise Security at HP, discussed two studies on cyber crime from the Ponemon Institute and Coleman Parks. The median cost to an organization due to cyber attack was $5.9 million a year, 56% more than last year, and the time it takes to resolve the attack … [Read more...]
Since I wrote my fist post on the virus affecting the drone fleet at Creech Air Force base, information has begun to trickle in and some interesting commentary has emerged. The Air Force has followed their official press release stating that the virus, which they say was a credential stealer, was merely a nuisance with a statement by General Robert Kehler, head of U.S. Strategic Command, which oversees Cyber Command. Gen. Kehler confirmed that the … [Read more...]
A friend who is a former Representative and a respected advisor of many senior politicians recently asked me for some thoughts on cyber legislation. In general, people ask my thoughts because of time I've spent working strategic cyber issues in the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA) or because of my history at DoD's Joint Task Force for Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND) or perhaps because as a techie and a writer I try to track technological … [Read more...]
A just-released GAO report says Federal CIOs do not have the authority they need to do their jobs - and serve the public. Should federal CIOs be given more power? What stands in their way? Enterprise CIO Forum community manager John Dodge and Bob Gourley, CTOvision.com editor-in-chief who used to work for the federal government, explore the problem of un-empowered CIOs in Federal IT. Listen to internet radio with ECIOForum on Blog Talk Radio … [Read more...]
John Dodge (@thedodgeretort) and Bob Gourley (@bobgourley) review the Enterprise CIO Forum's (@ECIOForum) top 10 Cloud Security Tweets of the week in the following podcast. Tweets selected by John included: zdnet: Will cloud security ever be sufficient? http://t.co/vLJjhFAY cloudsa: (ISC)² and The Cloud Security Alliance Expand Cloud Security Offerings to their Memberships... http://t.co/c80DntRK chrispirillo: How secure is … [Read more...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of3CfNJ84oQ Bob Gourley and HP's Andrzej Kawalec, CTO of Enterprise Security continued to discuss emerging security issues at the HP Protect 2011 conference on Monday, September 12, 2011, exploring problems with traditional approaches to enterprise security. Andrzej began by defining the customary enterprise security approach. We've been taking a very reactive stance to cybersecurity, focusing on responding to … [Read more...]