Posts By Bob Gourley

PortfolioStat: Rigorous program reviews similar to system integrator best practices

By Bob Gourley Systems Integrators must put quality first or they will fail. Every integrator I know has processes in place to ensure program success. The best include rigorous reviews early in program life to help program managers succeed. Rigorous review processes check program documentation, personnel training, schedules, budgets, risks, and overall plans. Reviews alsoRead… Read more »

CTOvision Podcast, an interview with Alicia Saia of MarkLogic

By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Alicia Saia, Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, Public Sector at MarkLogic. Alicia and I talked a lot about how MarkLogic is helping to change the way people look at data, how it integrates with their current generation and legacy systems, and how MarkLogic is helping agencies and corporationsRead… Read more »

USN: A review of changing traditions, and call for more!

By ChrisScott Some Traditions are NOT needed! Back in the day… the process to transmit Navy messages included strict accountability and control and were hugely labor intensive. But as official information exchange technologies become more prevalent, DoD transitioned to other means to accomplish the task. Organizational messaging services are prevalent throughout DoD now. And asRead… Read more »

Is There A Silver Lining To The President’s Cyber War Policy?

By SeanLawson What started last week as a series of reports on domestic spying by the NSA took a turn towards cyber security on Friday when Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian published the top secret Presidential Policy Directive 20 (PPD–20), which deals with U.S. policy and planning for cyber conflict. Like theRead… Read more »

Pentagon Five-Year Cybersecurity Plan Seeks $23 Billion, Cyber attacks focusing on Infrastructure, not Data and more

By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Brace for malware-fighting IE, Office patches – Microsoft is finally patching the vulnerabilities in IE this week. The weakness is in versions 6-10 of the software. 19 of the 23 patches Microsoft is rolling out today are based around patching IE.Read… Read more »

20 June FCW Presents: Managing Big Data for Results

By Bob Gourley FCW is presenting an interesting session in DC 20 June 2013 which will focus on the new tools, technologies and management strategies bing developed to help government agencies manage and use their data to gain insights, solve problems and discover new info in their data holdings. Featured speakers include: C. Scot AtkinsRead… Read more »

Cloudera and Platfora Leveraged to Address Hard Challenge: What do “they” know about my network?

By Bob Gourley Editor’s note: This guest post by Wayne Wheeles focuses on a topic I’ve struggled with for over a 15 years and shows great promise in addressing challenges no one else has tackled. Wayne is a Network Forensics Analytic/Enrichment Developer at Six3 Systems. – bg For a decade now, many Network Forensics Analysts,Read… Read more »

For The Technologist in Transition Or Seeking Employment

By Bob Gourley Are you a technologist considering a career shift? Here are some resources we hope you will find of use: For networking with other technologists, join our LinkedIn group on Disruptive IT. The group focuses on enterprise technologists so you will be connecting with a wide swath of like minded professionals, which canRead… Read more »