Government

DISA has released the Mobile Device Management (MDM) Security Requirements Guide (SRG)

February 22, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley The Mobile Device Management (MDM) Security Requirements Guide (SRG) is one in a family of SRGs addressing mobility solutions. Other mobility SRGs include the Mobile Operating System SRG, Mobile Applications SRG, and the Mobile Policy SRG. DISA and DoD guidance is that any organization designing or implementing an enterprise mobile solution within DoD must [...]

Filed Under: CTOvision Tagged With: Android, CTO, ctovision, cyber security, Cyber Threat, DoD and IC, Enterprise Mobile, Government, MDM, mobile, mobile computing, mobile device, mobile device management, Mobile operating system, Security controls, Solution

Great context from Jason Healey on Chinese Cyber Espionage

February 20, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley If you are an enterprise technologist you are probably pretty busy, right? And you are almost certainly numbed by the constant stories of cyber espionage, especially reports of data theft coming out of China. If you have been numbed with all the reporting please shake it off and dive into this current [...]

Filed Under: CTOvision Tagged With: Analysis, Atlantic Council, China, Chinese Cyberespionage, Computer security, CTO, ctovision, cyber security, Cyber Threat, Department of Defense, DoD and IC, Espionage, Government, Government of the People's Republic of China, Mainland China, Mandiant, National security, People's Liberation Army, Shanghai, United States, White House, World Trade Organization

INSA Publishes White Paper on Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise

February 19, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has released a white paper documenting the vision and approach for enhancing enterprise information technology in support of intelligence and national security missions. This paper, titled ”Doing in Common What Is Commonly Done” provides insights based on interviews of government leaders including CIOs, CTOs and [...]

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Federally Focused Technology Event Calendar: A reference for enterprise CTOs

February 17, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By Bob Gourley There are dozens of technology related events every single week. Even with recent decisions aimed at cutting back on the number of events that the government is involved with, industry, academia and even government continues to have a strong need for bringing people together to work on hard problems. Which means there [...]

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Joint Information Environment – Increment II? This could soon be the hottest program in DoD IT

February 14, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By ChrisScott Why would DON CIO’s Terry Halvorsen take a team of senior SES’s to Japan this week, in the middle of a No-Travel-Environment that is keeping ships in port, airplanes on the ground and everyone else chained to their desks counting their pay cuts? In his own words: he’s trying to “find some money”. [...]

Filed Under: CTOvision, Cyber Security Tagged With: Andy Singer, CTO, ctovision, cyber infrastructure, cyber security, Disa, DoD and IC, Government, Guru Bob Stephenson, Japan, JIE, John Zangardi, legacy infrastructure, Linda Newton, National security, Navy, PACOM, possible and reusing infrastructure, Randy Cieslak, Terry Halvorsen, together networks, United States Department of Defense, Vic Gavin

IG: VA faces challenges in moving to paperless claims processing, Trojan Steals Legit Digital Certificates and more

February 8, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. IG: VA faces challenges in moving to paperless claims processing – “Problems with the Veterans Benefits Management System are hindering Veterans Affairs Department efforts to eliminate its backlog of disability claims and to increase the accuracy rate of claims processing to 98 [...]

Filed Under: CTOvision, Cyber Security Tagged With: Computer security, ctovision, cyber security, Cyber Threat, DoD and IC, FedScoop, Government, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National security, NIST, Renewable energy, Thursday, United States

GSA CIO: big data the next big thing, Mobile-Phone Towers Survive Latest iOS Jailbreak Frenzy and more

February 7, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. GSA CIO: big data the next big thing – Casey Coleman, CIO of GSA, announced on her blog that she finds big data to be the “next big thing.” Data.gov now hosts 345K data sets and is visited over 1M times a [...]

Filed Under: CTOvision, Cyber Security Tagged With: Apple, Barracuda Networks, Big Data, Casey Coleman, Computerworld, CTO, ctovision, cyber security, Cyber Threat, DoD and IC, Government, Green Button, IDevice, iOS, IPhone, National security, NIST, sequestration, social media, United States

Open government requires usefulness not just data, NYT hacked again and more

January 31, 2013 By FedCyberTeam

By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Open government requires usefulness not just data – A whitepaper from SUNY-Albany “says there exists a growing interest at all levels of government to open up government data. However, says the study, agencies too often focus on expanding the amount of government data [...]