By Bob Gourley This is the second installment in our series flowing from recent dialog with Marc Andreessen. The first post reviewed some likely scenarios of the tech enabled environment of 2030 and some foundational considerations regarding converged cyber-physical systems all citizens will have ac...
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Are Washington’s policies causing a retirement ‘brain drain’ at federal agencies? ”A new online ticker from the National Active and Retired Federal Employees association claims to show the hours of institutional knowledge l...
The Department of Defense (DOD) has made information technology reform an important part of its agenda throughout the Obama administration, and efforts to overhaul the department are finally starting to bear fruit. Within the last few months, the DOD formally shuttered the office of the assistant se...
MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — SAIC, Inc.’s Board of Directors announced today that John P. Jumper will succeed Walter P. Havenstein as chief executive officer on March 1, 2012. Jumper joined SAIC’s board as Director in June, 2007. From September 2001 to Novem...
SAN MATEO, CA, Feb 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — AtHoc, Inc. ( www.athoc.com ), the pioneer and leader in providing network-centric emergency mass notification systems to military, government, healthcare, higher education and commercial organizations, today announced it will be equipping ...
The heightened surveillance of classified government information networks that was a predictable response to the unauthorized disclosures published by WikiLeaks is becoming more clearly discernible. “USSTRATCOM/USCYBERCOM is monitoring use of the SIPRNet and now has a mechanism for reporting certa...
Long Island’s business and technology leaders began an effort Tuesday to start a new industry here that would focus on protecting companies, government agencies and individuals from cyber attacks that have been increasingly causing chaos in the financial world and other industries. More than 1...
Homeland Security and Defense officials are advocating for a Senate bill that would concentrate computer defense authorities at DHS and the Pentagon’s National Security Agency. In debating how best to thwart a devastating attack on critical U.S. networks, the case has been made that Defense is...