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Paranoia is good when it comes to cyber-security...or is it? Are we making ourselves paranoid? Like many computer security professionals, I tend to closely follow technology and security news, even though its often discouraging and depressing. It is routine to see articles disclosing general information about recent attacks and criminal successes (and sometimes criminal captures). I suppose that at this point it is fairly common to find "shocking" … [Read more...]
Code for America is a great project with an exciting mission. They exist to help bring programming and technical talent, especially web2.0 talent, to the issues and challenges facing city governments. You are no doubt aware that cities are under great financial pressure. And we citizens of cities are as well, which means the odds of significant new IT money for most cities is really scant. It is time to look for new ways to empower our cities with … [Read more...]
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 about is their sponsorship of venues where government and industry tech leaders can interact together. One venue … [Read more...]
The CTOvision.com Tech Titans list has just been updated with a new snapshot of the globe’s top Information Technology (IT) firms by market cap. The firms on the list are all important for enterprise chief technology officers (CTO) and chief information officers (CIO) to track. Links to financial information and news sources are provided with the list. More comments are at: CTOvision.com Tech Titans list For reference, links are also … [Read more...]
I enjoyed listening to the President today as he provided an update on where we are in our efforts to enhance our freedom of action in cyberspace. All the details are on the White House website and I hope you visit there yourself to download the 60-day cyberspace policy review. Details are here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/CyberReview/ I have been reading the report already-- and will also read all the papers and studies referenced there. So far I have … [Read more...]
I was a bit puzzled when I found out I made the "Washington's Tech Titans" list assembled by Washingtonian Magazine. Why in the world would they put me on that list? Well, it is certainly good press and I'm definitely honored that they would consider me. Here is what they wrote: "Bob Gourley, founder and CTO, Crucial Point. As former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a prolific blogger at his site, CTOvision.com, Gourley is a respected … [Read more...]
INSA, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, is a group of professionals from academia, industry and government who seek to enhance innovation, discussion, debate and progress on key national security issues. I've been involved as a member for years and get the pleasure of interacting with folks from a wide swath of the community. One of the many services INSA provides the community is providing a venue for speakers and community leaders to … [Read more...]
I'm very pleased with the pick of Aneesh Chopra as the Federal Government's CTO. I wish I could add more context than that, and was thinking of a quick biographical sketch of Aneesh and some ideas on why this is great news. Then I read Tim O'Reilly's post at OReilly Radar, and frankly I just totally agree with everything Tim said. Please check out his post at: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/aneesh-chopra-great-federal-cto.html Here is an … [Read more...]