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We've recently heard a few big announcements for mobile computing in the military, which has long been blocked by security issues. First, the US Defense Information Systems Agency approved Dell Android 2.2 for use on Department of Defense networks with a few notable limitations. DoD users won't be able to access either classified data or the Android app store. Currently only one device, the Dell Venue smartphone, runs Dell Android 2.2, so the benefits … [Read more...]
A very interesting military organization was stood up in the late 1990's, a unit called the Joint Task Force - Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND). This command was created after a series of thorny cyber incidents that DoD had a hard time addressing with their current organizational constructs. Services had defensive organizations, DoD law enforcement had investigative and forensic experts, the intelligence community (DIA, CIA, NSA) had growing … [Read more...]