Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Report: US Smart Grid Cybersecurity Spending to Reach $7.25B by 2020 – a recent study by research firm Zpryme forecasts annual spending to reach $7.25B in 2020. The focus of this money will be on ICS and SCADA solutions. Via GreenTechMedia, more here. Navy [...]
Navy CIO: commercial clouds cheaper, FISMA Reform Passes House on 416-0 Vote and more
CTOvision Podcast: an Interview with Mauricio Renzi of Silver Tail
In this podcast I interviewed Mauricio Renzi, Federal Solutions Architect at Silver Tail Systems. Silver Tail Systems is the leader in real-time web session intelligence and behavioral analysis to provide visibility into web traffic and protection from cybercrime, online fraud, and business logic abuse. Mauricio and I discussed Silver Tail’s Web Session Intelligence and behavioral analysis capabilities. [...]
The Reality of Single Actor Attacks
Kevin David Mitnick, former most wanted hacker and reformed security consultant Editor’s note: Timothy Coleman is a prolific writer and analyst who publishes frequently on topics of interest to operational technologists as well as strategic technology thinkers. Olivia Wilson is an award winning literary theorist. We will be bringing you more of their writings in [...]
3D printing facial implant, online orders delivered in fifteen minutes and more
By Marcus Williams Today’s cyber news we are tracking: 3D printing facial implant, Receiving online orders in less than 15 minutes, AV world rankings, and more. Technology has reinvented itself again. A British restaurant manager was diagnose with a cancerous tumor growing on the left side of his face. He was referred to a surgeon [...]
Army defends its mobile device security plan, Cyber education key to security and more
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Army defends its mobile device security plan – “The Department of Defense’s inspector general has reposted and updated a report critical of the Army’s shortcomings in handling cybersecurity for commercial mobile devices (CMD), with some changes to correct for what it [...]
Join Our Virtual Tech Expo: Just tell us how to find your best YouTube video demo
By Bob Gourley We have been sad to see many of the great federally focused technology conferences cancelled. But that is a reality now. Time to think of other ways to learn and tech technology. We in the technology community have a duty to try to inform decision-makers of capabilities, even if there are fewer [...]
Very Interesting, Potentially Virtuous Move By Lockheed Martin: the Silicon Valley Alliance
By Bob Gourley If you are a small business with advanced software or hardware (or both) and believe you have something the government really needs, you may want to pay close attention to this. But read to the end, I conclude with some warnings every small tech firm should consider when dealing with the big [...]
DHS CIO Spires put ‘on leave’, Enterprises running Java versions that are months out of date, analysis finds and more
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DHS CIO Spires put ‘on leave’ – “FedScoop has learned that Department of Homeland Security’s Chief Information Officer Richard Spires has been put on immediate ‘on leave’ status with no further explanation as to why. Inquiries made to DHS officials about [...]


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