By Bob Gourley We previously wrote about the 21-22 May O’Reilly Solid Conference in San Francisco and just heard from the organizers that a significant number of registrations came from that write-up. That makes this event even more exciting for me, it means our readers are into this topic in mea...
By Bob Gourley Our site CISOtech.com is a repository of articles and information of interest to enterprise security professionals. Any reporting we do here at CTOvision that has relevance for the CISO is archived at that site, plus evaluations on cyber security technologies of interest. We also tail...
By ShannonPerry Throughout 2012, Iran targeted United States banks and companies with a series of distributed denial-of-services cyber attacks. The attacks doubled and sometimes tripled the amount of traffic that the American websites were capable of handling. Many considered the attacks retaliation...
By Bob Gourley We have previously written about Hexis Cyber Solutions (see evaluation here). With this post we provide more context on some of the enterprise security needs addressed by HawkEye-G from Hexis. The following are some key technology considerations from an enterprise technology persp...
By Bob Gourley Friends at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies recently brought this to our attention and since a high number of our readers live their lives studying or working with advanced technologies we wanted to get this to you right away. The threat of improvised explosive devices (IED)...
By SeanLawson Recently, several news outlets reported on a supposed plot by a Moroccan national to use remote controlled model airplanes as flying bombs. The story seems to lend credibility to speculation that model airplanes could be the next terrorist threat. In reality, however, these fears are p...
Editor’s note: Chris Scott has deep insights into how government works. Let us know if you would like more info on any of this.-bg With this post I’ll provide some of my personal observations and insights from the the 24th Annual Government Procurement Conference. The conference was held...
When Defense Secretary Hagel announced that he was going to expand his cyber workforce by more than 6,000 by the end of 2016, I think most of us in the industry collectively wondered: “Where the heck is he going to FIND these cyber warriors?” While almost every University is paying attention to ...