Distributed Common Ground System “Not Suitable,” Army Integrated Network Operations Center, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: An internal U.S. Army memo described the Distributed Common Ground System used to detect roadside bombs and predict insurgent activity limited and “not suitable.” More here. A recent survey of security experts showed little confidence in government’s ability to provide cybersecurity for critical infrastructure. More here.Read… Read more »

Change Challenge Part3

Day 9 with Windows 8 on Laptop. While not proficient with the interface yet, I am definitely seeing a productivity improvement in day to day data consumption tasks. Office has received a similar update to the UI/UX with similar results. Next week becomes the real acid test, I’m going to update my wife’s laptop withRead… Read more »

How I use Pocket to track technology

Pocket offers a host of saved reading capabilities You may have heard of Pocket, actually, you’re more likely to know it in its former incarnation, Read It Later. I have recently started using Pocket to track interesting stories for my daily roundup. The setup is easy – I made an account, installed the Chrome browserRead… Read more »

Have an 8% rise in productivity with just a few Microsoft Outlook Tips

If you use Microsoft Outlook, join me for a complimentary webinar: Outlook on Steroids. You’ll learn little known Outlook features that will help you gain at a minimum 5 more minutes of productive time an hour, giving you an 8% rise in productivity. Register your entire team for this Lunch and Learn preview. For anRead… Read more »

Innovation Labs in Government? Silicon Valley Comes to Washington

Recently, there’s been some debate about creativity – or lack thereof – within the Government workforce. However, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is taking a new approach to fostering innovation. OPM has brought (or bought) a piece of Silicon Valley into its Washington, D.C.-based headquarters. The Washington Post reports that OPM has created anRead… Read more »

The lord of the metrics

So I’ve been thinking about my earlier post on “Metrics: One Rule to Rule Them All.” It argued that each government agency should have just one metric to guide its performance, very much like the President has one approval rating that we use to gauge his or her success. The idea of having one orRead… Read more »

Implicit Learning Passwords Are Like Riding a Bike

Cryptography recently joined forces with neuroscience to propose a groundbreaking innovation in authentication. Hristo Bojinov of Stanford University along with Daniel Sanchez and Paul Reber of Northwestern, Dan Boneh of Stanford, and Patrick Lincoln of SRI published a paper on “Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks.” Passwords, encryption keys, and other methods ofRead… Read more »

Five Bags of Ice

My Grandfather’s Son is Clarence Thomas’ autobiography up to confirmation as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Jack asked me if I wanted to read his copy, that he got from Clarence. I read it like a thriller, because it was. Some of the people who illuminated Clarence’s quest of becoming hisRead… Read more »

Wozniak is worried about Cloud Storage, Flexible batteries may be on the horizon and more

Ouya is turning into the best little Android box forthcoming (but when will it be here?) Here is our wrap-up of the top technology stories of the day. Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder, believes that cloud storage will lead to “horrible problems” in the future. He said that “With the cloud, you don’t own anything. YouRead… Read more »

Introducing Kind of Digital Exchange

It’s not the most exciting bit of technology in the world, but it could be very useful. I read an awful lot of stuff on the web – thanks to Google Reader, it’s made really easy. Lots of people don’t have the time to do so, and are quite grateful to have useful items pointedRead… Read more »

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