“Microsoft is making moves to target a growing multibillion market: hosting, storing and running the U.S. government’s most sensitive classified secrets and data. On Tuesday, the software giant announced it will join rival Amazon as the only commercial cloud providers with the security capabilit...
“Before the Pentagon can hold artificial intelligence accountable, it will have to find it. Auditing the Department of Defense is a daunting task to begin with, and trying to figure out within that budget the full scale of existing spending on AI likely requires the audit as a prerequisite. At Via...
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Security” used to mean worrying about HTTPS certificates on your websites. The notion of a “device” was a browser and all you really had to do was to guarantee that traffic between it and your web servers was encrypted. Then the “bring your own device” (BYOD) phenomenon caused system admin...
As the Government continues to migrate to the cloud it becomes critical to integrate stronger security into its operations. Cloud and data security must go together. While cloud computing provides valuable IT architectures and solutions for government agencies, it also requires them to relinquish...
As our reliance on technology increases, so does the need for modern systems to support these devices and experiences. This has sparked a shift to services that deliver always-on, connected and remote-based content. Software-as-a-service has become increasingly reliable and necessary to keep up with...
If you have not read it yet, I would like to bring your attention to the incredibly prescient science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke titled “Superiority” (available in the collection: The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke). Written in 1951, this is such a great read becau...
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