Posts Tagged ‘ Compliance ’

The Future of Cyberspace Security: The Law of The Rodeo

October 20, 2008
By Bob Gourley
The Future of Cyberspace Security: The Law of The Rodeo

This is an update of my now annual assessment of the future of technology associated with good and evil in cyberspace which was first posted here. Predictions of the future of technology are increasingly starting to sound like science fiction, with powerful computing grids giving incredible computational power to users and with autonomous...
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Melissa Hathaway Op-Ed on Cyber Security

October 14, 2008
By Bob Gourley

Below I’m going to post, in its entirety, the text of an e-mail I received from the ODNI notification service.   The subject is an op-ed written by Melissa Hathaway, a senior leader who has been spearheading significant coordination action in the federal government (opinion: Melissa is perhaps the most effective SES-level leader in the...
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Performance Management In Organizations and Computers

October 13, 2008
By Bob Gourley

There are some interesting analogies between performance management applied to organizations and performance management applied to computers. In both cases, performance metrics are crucial to success.  In organizations, what we reward gets measured, and what gets measured can be more efficiently and effectively done.   In our computers, what we decide is important gets measured, and...
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Securing Enterprise Data and Computer Power

October 3, 2008
By Bob Gourley

In March I posted an entry on a significant enhancement in the computing realm, the thin client.   That post focused on how thin client computing is changing the net assessment in computer security (see:  http://ctovision.com/2008/03/computer-security-a-change-to-the-net-assessment/ ). I’ve been really pleased to watch thin client computing take off.  How widespread is adoption now?  In August Sun announced...
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Another government IT program succeeds beyond all expectations!

September 10, 2008
By Bob Gourley

In 2002 congress passed the E-Government Act.  It mandated that the approximately 300 federal entities that can make rules expose those rules in a modernized way and also specified that regulations in draft will be exposed so comments can be solicited. The government’s response: OMB and CIO’s from throughout the government established an eRulemaking solution...
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I hope to see you at the Synergy Conference

August 4, 2008
By Bob Gourley
I hope to see you at the Synergy Conference

The second annual Synergy Conference and expo will be held 12-15 August 2008 at Marco Island, FL.  Last year’s conference provided a great way for participants to learn from each other and interact with speakers from both operational and intelligence backgrounds.   I sure enjoyed it. It was one of my last official events before...
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Compliance enhances IT support to the mission

August 1, 2008
By Bob Gourley
Compliance enhances IT support to the mission

I’ve previously blogged about Triumfant, a company that has mastered the automated detection and resolution of IT problems.   I also think of them as the world’s greatest compliance monitoring capability.  What do I mean by compliance?  I mean compliance in the context of the many rules, regulations and configurations...
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