For those of us who work in and around the enterprise security domain something unique has just happened. The U.S. Government has just approved a commercial consumer device, the Samsung Galaxy family of devices, for classified info. This means government organizations can establish new, smarter, mor...
“The Defense Information Systems Agency has been tapped to tighten up network security of all branches of the federal government except the State Department and the FBI, which have their own systems. The move is in response to the unauthorized release of hundreds of thousands of pages of Penta...
The Defense Information Systems Agency is building its own smartphone application storefront to centrally manage and secure apps. More here. The nationwide initiative announced by the Federal Communications Commission to block service on stolen smartphones may reduce device resale but won’t...
The Joint Staff and Office of Secretary of Defense’s Office of Policy are working on unified rules of engagement for cyberspace that should be ready within the next two months. More here. The House Armed Services Committee told top defense officials at a hearing that the Department of Defense, n...
Todd Park, previously the CTO of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has been named the new United States Chief Technology Officer. More here. The U.S. Energy Information Administration, which gathers and posts oil and natural-gas supply statistics used by commodity traders, announce...
Six alleged leaders of Anonymous have been arrested including key member of LulzSec Hector Monsegur aka Sabu, who was revealed to be an FBI informant. More here. Anonymous has, however, begun to respond by defacing Panda Security’s PandaLabs website and vowed to continue. Panda Security claims...
ARLINGTON, Va., Feb 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — CACI International Inc CACI announced today that it has been awarded a $41 million task order to continue as lead developer of the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) solution sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). This task order falls un...
The Army’s move of 1.4 million users to the cloud for email isn’t really about enterprise email after all. Instead, the email-as-a-service is serving as a forcing function to fix long-standing process problems across the department. Mike Krieger, the Army’s deputy chief information...