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  • When Government Gets Things Right

    When Government Gets Things Right
    The past three weeks worth of news reports about GSA's lavish convention spending and indiscretions by Secret Service agents--and the inquisitions on Capitol Hill in response--could already fill a few ...
    2012-04-27T11:46:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • FedSMC: NSA Chief Says Leaders Can Be Made

    FedSMC: NSA Chief Says Leaders Can Be Made
    Many believe leaders are born, not made. Chris Inglis disagrees. The National Security Agency's Deputy Director explained why at the annual Federal Senior Management Conference in Cambridge, ...
    2012-04-16T14:00:00Z by Deanna Glick
  • Federal CIOs: How To Gear Up For FedRAMP

    Federal CIOs: How To Gear Up For FedRAMP
    Federal CIOs say agencies and government contractors must become completely familiar with FedRAMP security controls and how they relate to each agency prior to the cloud computing service program's ...
    2012-04-13T13:30:00Z by Elaine S. Povich
  • Cyber Command's Alexander: Leading For Success On The Mobile Frontier

    Cyber Command's Alexander: Leading For Success On The Mobile Frontier
    Gen. Keith B. Alexander, Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency/Chief Central Security Service shares insights on leading for success in the mobile frontier and amid ...
  • FCC Chairman Warns Hackers Gaining Means To Shut Down The Internet

    FCC Chairman Warns Hackers Gaining Means To Shut Down The Internet
    Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski today called upon the nation's Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to "take concrete steps" to improve Internet security for consumers and ...
    2012-02-22T16:42:00Z by Dan Verton
  • Military Cyber Chief Details Top 5 US Cyber Command, NSA Priorities

    Improving situational awareness, creating trained cyber teams and building a more defensible architecture are top priorities for NSA and US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), according to Col. John Surdu, ...
    2012-02-02T14:54:00Z by Jeff Erlichman
  • Lessons From Army's Weapon Systems Handbook - And Gall's Law

    Lessons From Army's Weapon Systems Handbook - And Gall's Law
    The 2012 Army Weapon Systems Handbook is available in a new, easier to access format. I know, because Terry Edwards, Director of the Army's System of System's Engineering (SoSE), asked me to do it, ...
    2011-12-29T09:03:00Z by Brand Niemann
  • Big Data: Big Problem, Big Answer for the CIA

    Big Data: Big Problem, Big Answer for the CIA
    It is clear to me that the CIA needs big data, like Zettabytes (10 to the 21st power bytes), and the ability to find and connect the "terrorist dots" in it. As of 2009, the entire Internet was ...
    2011-11-17T15:17:00Z by Brand Niemann
  • Congress Needs To Get The Facts Straight About Information Sharing

    Congress Needs To Get The Facts Straight About Information Sharing
    When the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs gathered last week to hear testimony about the state of information sharing across all levels of government, the committee ...
    2011-10-20T15:24:00Z by Dan Verton
  • McCain Proffers New Cyber Security Committee

    McCain Proffers New Cyber Security Committee
    On Capitol Hill, your committee is only as powerful as what it oversees. And with cybersecurity one of the biggest issues going nowadays, lawmakers are falling all over themselves to get a piece of ...
    2011-07-19T14:00:00Z by Carlo Munoz courtesy of AOL Defense
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