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Fixmo SharePlace Delivers Integrated Mobile Security and DLP for Microsoft SharePoint; Supports Mobile-Specific Access Control Policies

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By Ryan Kamauff

Steven VanRoekel gave an excellent keynote on Wednesday at the FOSE conference. Mr VanRoekel is a former Microsoft executive who has been in the Federal Government since 2009. He outlined the steps that he is pushing as the Federal CIO to improve IT throughout the government. He highlighted the pervasiveness of…

By Bob Gourley

Friends at the Government Technology Research Alliance have an awards activity they call the GovTek Awards.  They seek community input and then provide awards in categories designed to highlight contributions in many key federal IT disciplines.  You can check out the 2012…

By Bob Gourley

My friends (and former employers) at Northrop Grumman just announced they have signed a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) designed to enhance cybersecurity protections of the nation’s critical infrastructure.

This is associated with the DHS’s Enhanced Cybersecurity Services (ECS) program.

The…

By Bob Gourley

It has been a while since we have written about our friends at Liquid Robotics. We imagine most of our readers are keeping their ears open for news on their capabilities, they are so widely known in tech circles just about everyone knows their basic approach of leveraging “Wave Gilders” as wave propelled robotic platforms for high tech solutions.

But things…

By Ryan Kamauff

The opening keynote at this year’s FOSE conference was delivered by General Stanley McChrystal. General McChrystal was formerly the Commander of International Security Assistance Force as well the United States Forces in Afghanistan. General McChrystal has also commanded the Joint Special Operations Command…

By Bob Gourley

Everyone in the national security establishment knows of NSA’s Deputy Director, John C Inglis. He is without a doubt one of the most professional, competent, courageous leaders in the federal government. Like the vast majority of government servants he also has a strong sense of ethics and is always honest. All who know him realize he is exemplary there.

Much of the details of NSA’s work must be kept…

By Bob Gourley

I am in a hard spot. I hear all the times from CEOs of some of the greatest tech firms in the nation that they need high quality sales professionals with federal sales experience and everyone I know that has those skills is busy and very happy where they are at. I sure would appreciate it if you help spread the word on this. And I know those companies would and so will the person who lands the job I’m sure.…

By Bob Gourley

Training a New Generation of Data Scientists

Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Time: 2pm Eastern; 11am Pacific

Duration: 1 Hour

Data scientists, the professionals who straddle the line between statistician and software engineer, are in demand like never before. This scarcity of talent drives organizations and agencies…

By Ryan Kamauff

Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day.

• Department of Labor website hack highlights advanced attack trends – The recent attack at the Department of Labor is bringing to the forefront advanced tactics and strategies of cyber adversaries. This attack was a…

By Bob Gourley

We focus most of our writings here on the technology community in and around the Washington DC area. This is our base and you readers are our the community we most want to serve with information. We have been in the tech community for years and over time have established broad networks and are frequently asked to help great companies find candidates for technical positions. We have the ear of many tech CEOs,…

By Bob Gourley

DISA has just made an announcment regarding mobility I believe will be of high interest throughout the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community but also with the systems integrators that bring together solutions to serve the federal market. The announcement provides information on implementation guides for both Blackberry and Samsung…

By Ryan Kamauff

FOSE is the nation’s premier event for government technology professionals who need tools, resources, and best practices to transition to the cloud, mitigate cybersecurity threats, and achieve the goals of the DGS while managing uncertainty and the critical need to make it all happen on-time and on-budget.

“The…

By ChrisScott

On 8 May 2013 over 400 lucky defense contractors were treated to a sold-out full agenda from the Navy as they briefed their Information Dominance programs. This is the fourth year that Navy has done this and it is an outstanding forum! All the senior IT Navy leadership arrived early, mingled with the audience, stayed late and answered all the questions thrown at them! VADM Card (OPNAV N2/N6), VADM Rogers…

By Kimberly Kelly

Facebook has grown from a small collegiate only social network site to a public one with an astounding 1.1 billion users today. Facebook has cornered the social media market, for the most part, and it doesn’t look like they are stopping there. We are now a part the internet age a where all kinds of people that use…

By Bob Gourley

Platfora is enterprise grade technology that brings the power of Hadoop to any analyst that needs to get value from data. They are a game-changer in the Big Data field. But one of the best things about Platfora is it is incredibly easy to understand what they do and what sets them apart from others.

Want proof of my assertion? Watch the 90 second demo in the video…

By Ryan Kamauff

Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day.

• Google lets iOS apps direct users to Chrome instead of Safari  - iOS is notoriously locked down. Unlike Android, users cannot choose the default app for certain actions (writing mail, web browsing or mapping). Google has set their…

By Ryan Kamauff

Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day.

• GSA pilot program revolutionizes the personal office – The GSA is using hoteling to allow employees to reserve office space when they need it. Users can reserve conference rooms, cubicles or group work spaces. GSA is…

By Ryan Kamauff

One of the constant discussions between Android users is why/if you should “root.” Rooting is a term that describes the ability to grant programs “superuser” access. This allows programs to operate at the root level of the operating system, enabling full phone backups, changing certain parameters (CPU/GPU speeds) and…

By Bryan Ware

The Boston Marathon bombing, subsequent manhunt and current investigation are unprecedented – not only due to the nature of the attack but because of how much information has been available to law enforcement, the public and the suspects. Unlike any previous large-scale attack, data came in at a staggering velocity within seconds of the twin explosions, yielding constant changes and misreporting,…