By Bob Gourley Countering targeted attacks with active defense strategies Firewalls block basic attacks on your network, antivirus scanners filter known offenders, and no enterprise should operate without them. Still, focused attackers and zero-day exploits make short work of entrenched perimeter defenses, and every business should expect to be breached. To cope with these attacks,Read… Read more »
By Bob Gourley This event should be of interest to any enterprise that uses Hadoop and wants to empower analysts directly with new analytical power over their Hadoop clusters. Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Time: 11am Eastern; 8am Pacific Duration: 1 Hour The success of Hadoop has led many enterprises to the same common vision:Read… Read more »
By Bob Gourley Note: we previous summarized and pointed you to a closely related DSB report on Resilient Military Systems and the Cyber Threat. These two studies are related and the study teams held some joint meetings to help ensure the best possible recommendations for the department. The DSB Report on Cyber Security and ReliabilityRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. The future of military sensor systems: self-powered wireless Android boxes – DARPA’s new prototype sensor is an Android device with customized software. It allows sensor equipment to be plugged in as need be. The capability will be named ADAPT, and debutRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff MarkLogic is hosting a short Big Data symposium on the 19th of June, 2013, at the Washington Marriott Metro Center. This event explores how some government agencies have successfully exploited Big Data capabilities to take advantage of new technologies. The agenda is below: 8:00am Registration, Breakfast & Networking 8:50am Welcome & IntroductionsRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Join us for the Federal CTO Open Source Summit with Event Ambassador, Mr. John Marshall, NGA This conference brings together Federal CTO’s and industry professionals in a day long content rich exchange of information focused on government requirements in the five subject areas (Tracks) below. The mid-day plenary session is being replacedRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Bob Butler, Chief Information Security Officer at IO. IO is the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services designs, engineers and delivers cloud enabling data center infrastructure and software for the world’s largest enterprises, governments and service providers. Bob spoke a bit about hisRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley Dear readers, You are savvy technology executives, decision-makers, leaders and users and you know better than others the nuances and complexities and promise of the multi-platform world we find ourselves in today. So we have a favor to ask. This favor will only take a moment, but will result in data weRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Your iPhone Can Be Hacked With a Modified Charger – This scary news from the Georgia Institute of Technology is that a team of researchers have created a prototype iPhone charger which can inject malware onto devices. It apparently works onRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley Here we go again. Another NGEN delay. The program office announced this week that they have “re-entered discussions” with the offerors – HP and a team led by CSC. This program has been so long in the making it’s hard to stay positive. By the time anything gets delivered, industry standards willRead… Read more »