“Despite the popular perception that ever-present safety & security needs, and rising crime rates, which interestingly tend to escalate during periods of economic downturn, make electronic security systems recession proof, the market ironically has shown signs of marked weakening in the m...
The Federal Cyber landscape is driven by missions and budgets. Mission without budget is folly. Even in periods of significant downward pressure on budgets, there must be spending to ensure agencies succeed. When it comes to IT, a leading assessment indicates IT spending will actually increase...
“The Obama administration has adopted new procedures for using the Defense Department’s vast array of cyberwarfare capabilities in case of an attack on vital computer networks inside the United States, delicately navigating historic rules that ......
A former CIO and deputy director of the United States National Security Agency (NSA) has urged CIOs to become more proactive in their approach to corporate security consciousness. ‘They’re just now getting their hands wrapped around this problem,’ Dr Prescott Winter, who spent 27 years with th...
A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a ‘blue screen of death’ prior to the explosion that sank the oil rig last April, the chief electronics technician aboard testified Friday at a federal hearing. ‘Blue screen of death,’ or BSOD, is a...
Northrop Grumman Corp. (NOC) announced its second big contract in as many days, winning part of an information-technology order from the Social Security Administration worth up to $2.8 billion. The deal follows the defense contractor’s announcement Tuesday it won a contract valued at up to $2....
Sometimes a huge vision and fantastic goal is what is required to cause the dramatic change required in enterprises. Our vision for enterprise security: We believe enterprises, including the entire Federal IT Enterprise, can achieve an improvement in both security and functionality by two orders o...