News, analysis and context on enterprise technology for the CTO
Last Saturday, the hacker collective Lulz Security disbanded after nearly two months of "high-quality entertainment at your expense," stating that they had always intended to keep their campaign to 50 days and were not responding to heightened law enforcement pressure. Throughout their internet rampage, the hacker group was heavily hyped by the media, often for good reason. They took websites associated with the CIA, U.S. Senate, and Brazilian … [Read more...]
The DoDIIS Conference Agenda is now up at the conference site, and it really looks to be a great one. The confernece will be great for technology leaders in government, technology providers from industry, and the mission-focused executive leadership who seeks to guide both. If you want to shape the future, come to the DoDIIS conference and see what secure enterprises with advanced analytical missions are up to. I've pasted the full agenda below, but … [Read more...]
Vance Hitch, Department of Justice's CIO, recently sat down with FedScoop and discussed his cybersecurity efforts. DoJ has a phased approach to cybersecurity. Included in these issues needed to be addressed are data loss prevention and insider threats. The results are some great context in video. Mr Hitch was also kind enough to add some words on cloud adoption. As a large contributor to FedRAMP, he is working to provide guidance and identify … [Read more...]
Forbes ran a nice piece on In-Q-Tel. The article is worth reading in its entirety. Here is a link: Startups Backed By The CIA. The In-Q-Tel mission is to identify, adapt and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community, including the Department of Homeland Security. As a teaser till you get around to the article, here is a list of companies in the order … [Read more...]
The Endeca Government Summit was yesterday. The agenda included some fantastic presentations from customers who have used Endeca to address issues requiring incredible scale (billions of records) and incredible scope (including the need to discover meaning in data in milliseconds) and human-focused interfaces (including, in every solution I saw, an ability to enable humans to interact with data in ways that search never enables). One of my … [Read more...]
A Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT conference was held 26-27 October 2010 in Washington DC. This event was provided a good mix of presenters from government and industry plus a handful of analysts/commentators/writers/journalists and bloggers. There was also an expo which enabled firms to give demos of capabilities relevant to the topics of Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Green IT. First a note about the conference organizers: I've … [Read more...]
The following article by renowned security capability developer Dr. Anup Ghosh was was originally posted at the Invincea blog and is reposted here with the author's permission. ============= Question: what is the most significant cyber event of 2010? Answer: Stuxnet. While security analysts continue to marvel over Stuxnet’s capabilities, one disturbing aspect to Stuxnet is current defenses would not defend against the next Stuxnet type threat. … [Read more...]
The next big Gov2.0 event is the 21-22 July 2009 Open Government & Innovations Conference (OGI). The list of speakers includes some of the greats from the federal IT scene, including: Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO Tim O'Reilly, Visionary of the Web2.0 movement David Weinberger, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School David Wennergren, ASD NII and DoD CIO Michael Wertheimer, CTO, ODNI Lovisa … [Read more...]