www.homelandsecuritynet.com KABUL — A gunman wearing an Afghan National Army uniform Monday turned his weapon against NATO troops in southern Afghanistan, killing two British soldiers. “The individual who opened fire was killed when coalition forces returned fire,” the International Security Assistance Force said in a statement. “A joint Afghan and ISAF team is investigating theRead… Read more »
I am looking forward to attending the FOSE Conference April 3-5 in Washington DC. This post kicks off a blog series highlighting the conference tracks. The five tracks for the event are Cybsecurity, Cloud and Virtualization, Mobile, Defense Innovations and Records and Information Management. Over the next week, I’ll highlight one of the tracks andRead… Read more »
The Information Technology (IT) inventory of HR role and position labels is broad and deep. IT position descriptions may be closely associated with actual black box technology (like “Microsft Windows Server 2008 Administrator” or “Storage Area Network (SAN) Engineer”), or they may describe roles in a methodology-driven context required for IT success (“IT Project Manager”,Read… Read more »
If you are of the belief that there is no such thing as bad publicity, then please read on – this article is for you. Hashtags can be a very effective way to reach Twitter users, well beyond your actual network of followers. They provide a quick reference and an easy way to provide someRead… Read more »
With so many new technologies at the disposal of IT departments to help during an emergency, IT departments need to be proactive while planning for natural disasters, outages, cyber –crime and a dozens of potential events that could jeopardize network accessibility. In a current white paper from Century Link, Century Link provides some insights asRead… Read more »
At the beginning of the month, I wrote a blog about how a study showed that Facebook may just be a reliable assessment tool for recruiters. It sparked a conversation about whether employers should be using Facebook to screen applicants. Flash forward a couple of weeks, and stories about job seekers being asked for FacebookRead… Read more »
We have previously written about Kyrus Tech Inc and have highlighted their unique capability called Carbon Black. We have worked with the team of experts there in the past and I am very proud to have been professionally associated with Michael Tanji since we were both in government in the mid 1990′s. We have alsoRead… Read more »
Government and Industry – Partnering to Procure Smarter and More Sustainable Products and ServicesDate of Event: April 12, 2012Event Location: American Institute of ArchitectsEvent Time: 10:00 am (Registration Opens); 10:30 am – 12:00 pm (Program) Register Here: ACT-IAC Program Event Who should attend?Federal employees interested in: • Helping your organization set and achieve sustainability goals•Read… Read more »
Cyberwar – hype or reality? The end of CSIOs? and the future of Virtual Worlds by GovLoop Insights On today’s show Monday March 26, 2012. It’s a busy week for the DorobekINIDER… Wednesday is Federal Computer Week’s annual Fed 100 Awards gala… some really remarkable winners this year. Here’s the link to the full list.Read… Read more »
We’ve all heard the doomsday scenarios of a computer virus that shuts down the entire government or cripples a country’s communication system but just how feasible are those? Well if you look at the current topics in government IT it would seem that cybersecurity is a HUGE issue and protecting against a cyber war isRead… Read more »