29 March CTOvision Podcast with Anup Ghosh of Invincea

By Ryan Kamauff In this podcast I interviewed Anup Ghosh, CEO and Founder of Invincea. Invincea is a venture-backed software company that is bringing innovative security to companies through the Invincea breach prevention platform. Anup and I discussed Invincea and the breach protection software they offer. In short, “Invincea delivers the first and only virtualizedRead… Read more »

Learning from the World Bank’s “Big Data” Exploration Weekend

Note: Steve Ressler suggested I post this article here, which I originally published March 21 on my own blog. It describes my firsthand experience with a recent “data dive” weekend, sponsored by the World Bank and others, where teams of analysts gathered to address a series of development related problems fed by data files collectedRead… Read more »

The Army’s Command Post of the Future. First Army Unit deploying with a mobile network, Cisco and Cloud Computing

By Marcus Williams Today’s Cyber news we are tracking: The Army’s Command Post of the Future. First Army Unit deploying with a mobile network, Cisco and Cloud Computing The Army’s Command Post of the Future (CPOF) Leaders on the ground at the attack on Lybia last year used maps and images provided by the CommandRead… Read more »

How Can We Protect Critical Infrastructure When We Can’t Even Prevent Message Board Hacking?

Lately we’ve had some experiences in our area with hacking of construction message boards. At first, I figured it must have been some programmers who figured out how to get into the computer system. But after seeing another report of it today, I searched for “how to hack a highway message board” and found thereRead… Read more »

Is Your Organization Grappling with Communicating with Citizens Across Multiple Devices and Platforms?

Learn how agencies are addressing these challenges in a FREE webinar, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. This complimentary, one-hour webinar is presented by the National Association of Government Communicators, FedInsider, and Adobe. Webinar topic: Delivering More Engaging Communications to Citizens Across Devices and Platforms Register now: http://solutions.adobe.com/?elqPURLPage=274 Date of webinar: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 Hour-long webinar:Read… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: March 29, 2013

This post has been updated to include Dan Chenok’s contribution. Gadi Ben-Yehuda Bright new ideas edition! Here are “A Few Hundred Innovative Ideas for Urban Governance“ And here’s a “New Report: Crafting a Comprehensive Digital Government Strategy“ Now, the “Boston CIO using gamification to bond city workers and constituents“ And did you know that “ThereRead… Read more »

How to Minimize the Risk of Delaying Your Project by a Customer

When it comes to project delays there are several factors that can lead to such situation. The customer is one of them and there are two issues that can be discussed: what to do when the delay already happened and the other how to minimize the risk of happening such a delay. Customer delaying theRead… Read more »