The Homeland Security Department will soon pilot a program to drive down the cost of its virtualized desktop and mobile services by bundling the two together into a single purchase, Roger Spires, DHS’ chief information officer, said Tuesday. The program, which the department is calling ̶...
via ZDnet Hewlett Packard on Tuesday released a new report concluding that the cost incurred by rampant cybercrime was up 56 percent year over year. “Cyberattacks increasingly plague businesses and government organizations, resulting in significant financial impact, despite widespread awarenes...
via Information Week Government The Navy has sketched out data center and cloud computing plans for a multibillion dollar, next-generation network it’s building for both naval forces and the Marine Corps. The Navy aims to reduce its non-tactical IT budget by 25% through the deployment of the N...
via Government Computer News Robert Carey, the Defense Department’s deputy CIO, recently summed up the state of cybersecurity: “It’s the information, stupid.” The introduction of increasingly powerful mobile devices and adoption of cloud technology have made the enterprise perime...
via Tech News World Looking back over the past few years, it seems like cybersecurity and warfare threats are only getting worse. We’ve had the Stuxnet Worm, the WikiLeaks affair, China-originating attacks against Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and others, and the recent Egypt Internet blackout. But ar...