This morning I attended GovDelivery’s Digital Communications Tour in Washington D.C. This half day event, part of a multi-stop tour, is the place to learn best practices and strategies on government communications and digital government from public sector experts. Speakers included Steve Ressler, Founder of GovLoop, Scott Burns, CEO and co-Founder of GovDelivery, Tim Fullerton,Read… Read more »
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Big Data and Analytics Conference- Intelligence, Defense and Homeland Security
Over the last few years, big data has been a hot topic in government. No longer just a buzzword, it has emerged as a real way to increase efficiencies, reduce waste, increase productivity and make smarter, data driven decisions. Organizations are already collecting large amount of data so the conversation has moved from “when” toRead… Read more »
Centripetal Networks Provides Internet Scale Cyber Defense
By Bob Gourley I’m on the board of Centripetal Networks, a firm with dramatically virtuous technology that I believe will change the world. With this post I’ll tell you more about this firm, with a focus on the differentiators of their capability. The core capability of Centripetal Networks is a product called the RuleGate. ItRead… Read more »
GitHub hires government focused employee, Companies want Lawsuit Shield to share Cyber Threat Data and more
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. GitHub hires first government-focused employee – GitHub has recently announced the hiring of their first government focused employee. GitHub offers social coding, which opens the development process. “former White House Presidential Innovation Fellow Ben Balter will join its team to focusRead… Read more »
Having a website crash due to high traffic is a failure of management, not load
Today has provided an interesting lesson for several organisations, with the crash of both the David Jones and ClickFrenzy websites in Australia. But first, some background. ClickFrenzy is a new 24-hour sale for Australian online retailers starting from 7pm on Tuesday 20 November. Based on the US ‘Cyber Monday’ sale, which now attracts over 10Read… Read more »
Having a website crash due to high traffic is a failure of management, not load
Today has provided an interesting lesson for several organisations, with the crash of both the David Jones and ClickFrenzy websites in Australia. But first, some background. ClickFrenzy is a new 24-hour sale for Australian online retailers starting from 7pm on Tuesday 20 November. Based on the US ‘Cyber Monday’ sale, which now attracts over 10Read… Read more »
#Sandy – Did the 20 Million Plus Tweets Help or Hurt Emergency Managers?
When Superstorm Sandy hit the eastern seaboard earlier this month millions of people took to twitter to show their support, air grievances and ask for help. So with a record 20 million plus tweets alone on the #Sandy, how can emergency managers, the government and people in general do with all this data? Kate StarbirdRead… Read more »
How Yahoo! Fuchs’d Things Up (aka “The Admirable Act of Admitting You’re Wrong”)
If you indulge in Yahoo! Fantasy Football like me, this past weekend was particularly frustrating. For those who don’t engage in this pastime, the long and short is that their system went down, leaving me and thousands of other fans without access to our team’s information. It was almost unforgivable…but then I received the followingRead… Read more »
AFCEA Bethesda Smart Tech Symposium Interview Series: Mark Lively, Energy Economist
AFCEA Bethesda Smart Tech Symposium Interview Series: Mark Lively, Energy Economist On October 23, AFCEA Bethesda is hosting an innovative educational symposium for government and industry participants who are or want to be on the cutting edge of smart technology and sustainability. The goals of the event are to make the business case for sustainability,Read… Read more »
Vapor Trails
Ima go Star Trek nerd on you for a minute. My favorite Star Trek movie is “Wrath of Khan.” My *second favorite* is directed by the same guy, Nicholas Meyer: “The Undiscovered Country.” This is the movie with Kirk and McCoy framed and imprisoned for the murder of a Klingon Ambassador, meanwhile the real assassinRead… Read more »