Posts Tagged ‘ FDCC ’

Enhancing Security and Functionality At The Same Time

February 24, 2009
By Bob Gourley

Have you ever been sucked into the false debate over how much IT spending should be spent on security?  I used to all the time.  Some folks point to a rule of thumb that goes something like “ten percent of the IT budget should be applied to security.”  That old school formula may well...
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CTOs, Global Cyberwar and Our Collective Future

December 8, 2008
By Bob Gourley
CTOs, Global Cyberwar and Our Collective Future

If you are a technologist, please take a moment to download the PDF of the report by the U.S. Commission on Cybersecurity.  This report, titled Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency, is the best proclamation of the challenges of cyber I have read.  It is also a roadmap that will help any trying...
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Update on Federal Cloud Computing

October 29, 2008
By Bob Gourley
Update on Federal Cloud Computing

My last several briefings, including one yesterday at the FIAC, have addressed some of the dramatic changes underway in the IT world.   That briefing is attached here: Download FIACGourleyBrief.pdf The conference had a focus on information assurance, computer security, network security and Chief Information Assurance Officers (CISO) in the federal space.   So I not...
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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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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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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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Automated Resolution of IT Problems

July 11, 2008
By Bob Gourley
Automated Resolution of IT Problems

In January 2008 I was named to the advisory board of Triumfant, a company who has mastered the automated detection and resolution of IT problems.  Of all the IT firms I’ve seen, they are the ones with the most comprehensive approach to automated resolution management and the only one...
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