With a $1 billion contract, Booz Allen Hamilton is now tasked with securing the networks of 6 federal agencies representing 80% of the .gov usage, 4.1 million network addressable devices, over 1.75 million users, 19,700 websites, and 89 federal organizations. The contract is part of a larger federal...
By Bob Gourley The total federal budget is about $3.9 Trillion. Of that, about $1 Trillion is “discretionary” meaning it is something that the current government planners (Congress) government has a choice on. About $79 Billion of this is for IT. That is huge! Many firms with great technologie...
By Bob Gourley If you are a technologist you no doubt have thoughts about security and how to improve your approach to enterprise-wide defense. Odds are you have concluded that the only way to mitigate the threat is through automation. Right? Please join us for a discussion on automated removal of c...
By Bob Gourley I recently caught up with D-Wave Systems President and CEO Vern Brownell and asked him to provide a bit more context for our readers on what this very unique system is and does. Vern has a very interesting background that instantly grabbed my attention. He has terrific past performanc...
Everyone knows it can be very hard to do business with the government. But you can take steps to make it easier to serve. The most important thing to do, in my opinion, is to be informed on government mission needs. How else can you determine if you have what the government really wants from [&helli...
By Bob Gourley If you are a small business with advanced software or hardware (or both) and believe you have something the government really needs, you may want to pay close attention to this. But read to the end, I conclude with some warnings every small tech firm should consider when dealing with ...
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories. Homeland Security urges computer users to disconnect network setting – DHS is asking users to disable the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) capability on their home machines. Apparently, security settings on UPnP are minimal, and the setting...
By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Feds: 3 charged over ‘Gozi’ computer virus that infected millions, including NASA – Nikita Kuzmin, a 25 year old Russian man has been charged with promoting and distributing the ‘Gozi’ virus. This virus ...