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Posts Tagged ‘ federal government ’

A National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

June 27, 2010
A National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

The White House has issued a draft for comment of a new National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The strategy draft was introduced by Howard Schmidt in a White House blog: A National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace Howard’s introduction included: “Today, I am pleased to announce the latest step in moving...
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CTO Perspectives on Cyber Security Bill

June 12, 2010
CTO Perspectives on Cyber Security Bill

On June 10, 2010, the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) unveiled a major cybersecurity bill designed to modernize, strengthen, and coordinate US Cyber defenses. Senators Collins, Carper and Lieberman introduced this bill with the clear articulation to defend not just federal networks but the Internet itself.  As portion of the...
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Live Blog from Gov 2.0 Expo – Introduction to Government Social Publishing with Drupal

May 25, 2010
Live Blog from Gov 2.0 Expo – Introduction to Government Social Publishing with Drupal

Kieran Lal of Acquia led a great talk (adventure) on the use of government Social Publishing and Drupal.  Kieran is the Drupal community adventure guide for Acquia, which provides commercial subscriptions for Drupal. He is a board member of the Drupal assocation, coordinates testing.drupal.org, and the Drupal security team. Recently he’s been involved in...
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2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

May 21, 2010
2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference

The 2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 23-27 May in Phoenix Arizona.  This venue is hosted by the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer.  The focus is on topics relevant to mission success for the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS).  DoDIIS is all about facilitating the...
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FBI CIO Chad Fulgham: Delivering Real Capability

May 20, 2010
FBI CIO Chad Fulgham: Delivering Real Capability

The FBI has some critically important missions. They have always been sent to address the big crimes, the hard challenges that required the most advanced training and skills.   And they have always had roles in counter espionage and counter terror (with both those roles growing in the last several years).  They have long been...
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Intelligence Community Executive Forum on Cyber Operations

May 13, 2010
Intelligence Community Executive Forum on Cyber Operations

Carahsoft is a unique, trusted firm that helps government find and rapidly acquire the right technologies and helps high tech firms successfully interact with government (which has famously onerous processes for businesses that want to serve the federal mission).  Carahsoft is a client of my firm and one of the things I’m particularly proud...
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Twiki and Gov2.0: Innovative Open Architecture Platform and Solutions

April 13, 2010
Twiki and Gov2.0: Innovative Open Architecture Platform and Solutions

I am so proud to be associated with Twiki.  Some of the personal reasons I enjoy working with them is an ability to interact with and learn from their CEO Jitendra Kavathekar (@JeetKavathekar) and their founder Peter Thoeny (@peterthoeny).  Both are enthusiastic teacher/leader/thinkers.  I also appreciate the opportunity to work with members of the...
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Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: The Challenge

February 22, 2010

Several specific and new requirements have been given to the national security community as part of the White House review of security and intelligence systems following the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas day. Collection, processing, organization, and dissemination of information is a priority in the new requirements. This post provides an articulation of some...
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DHS Opens the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC)

October 30, 2009
DHS Opens the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC)

If you are an enterprise CTO I’m hoping you already have the site of the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) bookmarked.  It it has been a while since you have seen their site please check it out at http://www.us-cert.gov They provide important resources for any enterprise technologist, not just security professionals. Organizationally they...
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Great IT change came with a whisper not a bang

October 8, 2009
Great IT change came with a whisper not a bang

I have a thesis I would like to try on you. In the IT world, like in many other human endeavors, the things that get measured get improved. And the things that don’t get measured are easy to ignore.  So, when the world’s largest IT enterprise (the US federal government) starts measuring IT differently...
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