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Many of you likely work with sensitive data on a regular basis. Whether it be classified government information, personally identifiable data, or any other type of data that should be protected, there are many ways to secure it in the digital domain. In fact, securing that data digitally is the easy part. What about the threat of eavesdroppers? They could be intentional and malicious, or completely accidental and benign, but that doesn't make it … [Read more...]
Most enterprise technologists should see a continued payoff of the hard work in planning, architecture, documentation, development and configuration work that has been occurring over the last several years. Enterprise technologists were building Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) long before SOA was over-hyped. And most enterprise technologists I know were investigating constructs of scalable, elastic Cloud Computing capabilities long before that … [Read more...]
Software designed by open source standards has security built in and has been found to be fielded with far fewer faults per unit of code than proprietary development houses. There are many reasons for this. This factor is especially true when the open source code is commercially supported. For example, Linux, which has the strength of a huge open community and also the strength of thousands of paid developers from great companies like IBM, Oracle, … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing is one of the many things enterprise CIOs, CTOs and other engineers will master in delivering capability. I believe in the power of new Cloud Computing technologies and concepts and think we should all continue our focus there. I have said, and still say, the same thing about design approaches like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The constructs, methods and models of SOA are good practices that result in good designs for … [Read more...]
With this post I'd like to tell you a bit more about the coalition Open Source for America and why I believe it is so important for our collective future. I would also like to encourage you to join this coalition yourself. Whether you represent industry, academia, non-profit organizations or are an individual technologist this coalition needs your help and support. The coalition is designed to serve as a centralized resource for information on … [Read more...]
[amtap book:isbn=1430218916] For a combination of personal and professional reasons, Pro OpenSolaris is the perfect book at the perfect time for this period in my life. As a CTO with enterprise-grade experience I know Open Source Software and its many benefits. And as a security professional I have long known of the powerful security features of Open Source in general and Solaris specifically. As a computer scientist I have also been a long time … [Read more...]
Participants in this week's Enterprise 2.0 conference, hosted by the ODNI's ICES group and the CIA's WIRe team, were treated to a shared experience that is hard to capture in a blog post. So I won't try. But I will say this, we all had some great collaboration and coordination lessons and context, and we were able to participate in creating that ourselves because the conference organizers established a great ambiance and gave us access to wiki's, … [Read more...]
This is the third of three blog posts on technologies encountered during my visit to Redmond. This one is on Microsoft Surface. (First a note: although this is about Surface, Microsoft also announced another hot capability called Sphere. For more on that see the blog of the CTO of Microsoft's Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments- Lewis Shepherd) Microsoft Surface is something you may have heard about in the press. For those of us who … [Read more...]
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 that external organizations and the government require, and also compliance with your own policies and guidance. For those who … [Read more...]
I recently finished a visit to one of our nation's greatest intellectual resources, the school of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. The incredible work being accomplished at the university includes the globally famous Software Engineering Institute and the equally renowned CERT/CC. CMU also serves the nation by hosting and supporting Cylab. More on each of these is below. SEI is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center … [Read more...]
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