You just cannot make peace with those who don’t want to make peace with us. We need to draw a line what is acceptable and unacceptable. In organizations, strong leadership and principles are required so employees know what are expected of them. These principles and expectations must be consistently communicated and executed by senior leadersRead… Read more »
Diversity is the strength for each organization and for the Nation. Organizational leaders are not doing their job if they don’t embrace diversity and inclusion in their organization. Diversity should be a central focus of human capital management. Should senior leaders and supervisors be held accountable for the success in workforce diversity and diversity management?Read… Read more »
Stocks rallied last week after the Fed announces the start of quantitative easing #3, or QE3. The Dow jumped 207-points on Thursday after the announcement, and followed up with more gains on Friday. Here are the TSP fund returns for the week of September 11 through September 14, plus the up to date annual returns.Read… Read more »
Friends and associates at Kyrus (Kyrus-Tech.com) recently announced they will be hosting Practical ARM Exploitation Course. This is the extremely popular course maintained by Stephen C. Lawler and Stephen A. Ridley. Exploitation is harder and a bit more nuanced today than it was in the past with the advent of protection mechanisms like XN, ASLR,Read… Read more »
Earlier, Recorded Future used their visualization and analysis tools to create interactive streams for monitoring the crises in Beghazi and Cairo, where U.S. Embassies were stormed by rioters and four Americans killed in an attack including the Ambassador to Libya. Their service creates an index of past, present, and predicted events from over 150,000 onlineRead… Read more »
A lot of people accept that broadband will improve local economies. But how does the technology do this, exactly? Over the years, I’ve heard some rather impressive claims about the economic healing power of broadband. Talking to people in the trenches, though, I get a different sense of what we should expect and how weRead… Read more »
In spite of the Obama Administration’s recent $200 million investment in the Big Data Research and Development Initiative many agencies continue to struggle to find the necessary funds for Big Data projects, while others are challenged to build the proper infrastructures to handle them. Simply put, agencies recognize the importance of Big Data, yet ITRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Government Accountability Office found that the federal government has no way of knowing which countries have purchased American drones because of inadequate databases and weak communication between licensing departments and intelligence agencies. More here. The United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity has awarded aRead… Read more »
A recent news story in The Economist discussed outsourcing and privatizing of government communications, and used Sandy Springs, GA as an example of a government entity that had outsourced many functions. Suzanne Horsley, an assistant professor in the University of Alabama’s Department of Advertising and Public Relations, was intrigued by the article, and now she’sRead… Read more »
A recent article on Emergency Management Magazine’s website stated, “Surveys consistently indicate that less than 10 percent of the public is considered prepared for a disaster and that percentage is usually closer to 6 percent.” The article deems current strategies to prepare the public for emergencies as inadequate, stating that the threat-based message is deliveredRead… Read more »