A Request From The Security Innovation Network: Please help us find the most innovative new cybersecurity companies

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The mission of the Security Innovation Network™ (SINET) is to advance innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. SINET increases awareness between builders, buyers, researchers and investors in the Cybersecurity domain, in particular the Defense Industrial Base and the Federal Government. SINET utilizes a top down – [...]

Seeing the Digital Future: 1961 AT&T Video on The Challenge of Change

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In a short time we have come a long way, says this video (embedded below) from the AT&T Archives. The piece, from 1961, will make you smile at some of the technology considered state of the art at the time. That’s reason enough to watch it. But you may also enjoy the great, relevant messages [...]

TwitPolls: Some Relevance for Enterprise Technologists

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Early adopters have  been evaluating TwitPolls for the last several weeks. I’ve tested it out with our @CTOvision account and see great promise for this easy to use engagement tool. Here is a bit more on TwitPolls and some of its relevance for enterprise technologists: TwitPolls is powered by the technologies and leadership team of WayIn, [...]

Microsoft Presents a Vision of the Future

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Here is a Microsoft vision piece mean to show us some ways that future technologies can help us make better use of our time and get things done. It is a pretty cool video that can help us think through requirements for what we want out of the future. It features several devices, including a [...]

Cyber Physical Systems Virtual Organization Holds National Symposium on Moving Target Research 11 June 2012

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On 11 June 2012 the Cyber Physical Systems Virtual Organization will be holding a symposium on Moving Target Research. In this context, think of Moving Target as meaning the creation of a dynamic attack surface to adversaries done in a way that dramatically increases the work factor required to successfully attack a system. This cybersecurity research [...]

Update on Splunk Live DC: 15 May 2012

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Splunk Live DC will be held Tuesday 15 May 2012 at the Ronald Reagan center in downtown DC. This will be a great event to exchange lessons learned on the use of Splunk capabilities for Big Data analysis. Lessons learned and use cases on government related topics will be a key feature. The agenda includes [...]

Could A Technology Loop Be Causing Your Epic Mind Fail?

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It is a fact of modern life: We all run the risk of getting too distracted by our IT, especially IT connected to our social media. Today, for example, my priority is finishing a White Paper for a favorite client, and I promise I will do that, but I just saw this really cool clip [...]

Microsoft Surface Parody

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Microsoft’s Surface was not the first Touch Table. But it rapidly became the most widely deployed and with an extensive network of partners it was quickly supported by many mission-focused applications. It is a serious platform that has many solutions and tools built upon it. I’ve also seen it used for entertainment and gaming. So [...]