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Bob Gourley is Crucial Point LLC’s founder and editor of CTOvision.com. Bob has received industry recognition including Infoworld top CTO award, AFCEA’s meritorious service award, and recognition as one of the top 100 “Tech Titans” in DC by Washingtonian magazine. He was named one of the “Top 25 Most Fascinating Communicators in Government IT.”
CTOlabs.com, a site we produce in service to enterprise CTOs seeking ideas, concepts and evaluations, has just undergone a major makeover focused on making content easier to discover. The layout is now presented in a newspaper format with large headlines, lots of images, and automated suggestions of content related to what you are looking at. Please take a moment to look over the site's new design at http://ctolabs.com, and follow CTOlabs.com on … [Read more...]
On 28 September 2011, FedCyber.com will facilitate a one-day Government-Industry Cyber Security Summit to be held at the Newseum in Washington DC. This event is free for government cybersecurity practitioners. The FedCyber.com Government-Industry Summit will bring together thought leaders who know the cyber mission in a venue designed to enhance our collective understanding of the threat, build on existing strategies to mitigate challenges, … [Read more...]
The amount of data being created is growing faster than humans can analyze. But fast analysis over the right data can solve tough challenges. Those facts are driving the continual pursuit of new solutions to Big Data challenges. Solutions to these Big Data issues hold the promise of helping many sectors of our life, but the missions and data of governments make the government sector one of particular importance. The government has special abilities to … [Read more...]
Cyberspace is our interconnected information technology. And since everything either is or is becoming connected, one of the defining characteristics of cyberspace is its complexity. This adds burden to cyber defenders. Defense teams require experience, education, training and a mindset that lets them continually learn. They also must forge broad teams across multiple subject and functional areas. An ability to rapidly collaborate and exchange data while … [Read more...]
Our premier publication is our monthly technology review. Every month we send this to over 6000 technology thought leaders. Our monthly recaps reporting from the CTOvision.com blog as well as tech trends from the IT industry. We also provide links to our technology assessments in our monthly. Other products include our Daily CTOvision.com summary, the Daily Fedcyber.com summary, and the Government Big Data Newsletter. We would like to add you to our … [Read more...]
I just found word of this 25 August webinar on the Carahsoft website and wanted to share it. I plan on attending to get the latest on i2-based anti-fraud solutions. i2 is widely known in our community as the gold standard for dynamic analysis of links and relationships for investigations. And they are known for working with others in the software stack (including working with great tools like Thetus and Endeca). So if you are sick of having glitzy … [Read more...]
As a former enterprise CTO and current technology watcher, I was struck at the incredible brilliance of yesterday's announcement by Dell and Cloudera. In a move that will help enterprises of all sizes serve a very wide range of missions, those two organizations have announced a new relationship that will enable something that has never really existed before. Enterprises can now buy a Hadoop-centric solution that has been validated from end-to-end and … [Read more...]
Crucial Point is part of the FulcrumIT team, which supports the JDISS program office in Suitland, MD. Crucial Point support to this team has resulted in lots of positive feedback for our company's ability, hard work and mission-focus. Client satisfaction and our ability to exceed requirements is now fueling more growth. We are hiring immediately for key technical positions. Positions we are hiring for include systems/software engineers, Senior … [Read more...]
The cyber security e-mail lists, Twitter streams, Facebook messages and chat circuits were abuzz today over a new report released from the Brookings Institution. This piece, titled "Pirates of the ISPs: Tactics for Turning Online Crooks into International Pariahs," was authored by Noah Shachtman. Noah is a Fellow at the Brookings Institution 21st Century Initiative. Many of us in the tech community also know him well from his many contributions … [Read more...]
On 28 September 2011, FedCyber.com will present a one-day Government-Industry Cyber Security Summit to be held at the Newseum in Washington DC. The FedCyber.com Government-Industry Summit will bring together thought leaders who know the cyber mission in a venue designed to enhance our collective understanding of the threat, build on existing strategies to mitigate challenges, and leverage the nation's greatest technologies to enhance our defense in … [Read more...]