Katie Kennedy This is the third post in a three part blog post on the Women in Cybersecurity Conference that took place March 31st through April 2nd in Dallas, Texas. The first keynote for the final day of the Women in Cybersecurity conference was Shelley Westman. Westman had a long road that ult...
By Bob Gourley HP Enterprise Security Solutions to help 33 U.S. government agencies prevent network and system vulnerabilities PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the company a cybersecurity contract worth up to $32.4 million—the larg...
By AdamElkus My amigo Alex Olesker has a nice roundup at OODA Loop of why China and Japan are feuding over a pile of rocks in the South China Sea. So why, you might ask, is this relevant for technologists? Well, consider this story from August: Chinese tech hub and boom town Shenzhen is set [&hellip...
State Department CIO Susan Swart says that since WikiLeaks the agency has been working on improving security for its classified networks and systems with measures such as auditing and monitoring tools, tagging information with metadata to enable role-based access, and an effort to implement public ...
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that HP Enterprise Services will be a prime contractor for the VA Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) program, which aims at transforming the VA’s IT programs in order to improve quality of healthcare and benefits services to vet...
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 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...