Security remains one of the biggest concerns about moving mission-critical applications to the cloud, but US government agencies are being encouraged to overcome their cyber fears. At an Amazon Web Services conference in Washington attended by a number federal employees, representatives of several a...
via Government Computer News IT managers with The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have extra data center space and want to get into the business of offering cloud-based or shared services to other federal agencies. But here’s the problem: The IT and data center staff curr...
via Defense Systems The increasing availability of options in cloud computing are making the strategy more appealing to many government agencies, but the unique security demands of the Defense Department and related organizations require extra attention to cyber safety. However, the growing cloud mo...
via Government Computer News An interesting shift in this year’s McAfee report on critical infrastructure security is that the United States has gone from being the most feared nation for launching attacks to No. 3 this year, behind China and Russia. But if China is seen as the most offensive thre...
via Gov Info Security Recognizing the reality of cyberthreats doesn’t mean that organizations take the proper actions to prevent them. That’s a takeaway of a new survey of IT security executives in energy sector conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (the public ...