Rick Delgado Opening an unknown email, clicking a new link, or accessing a malicious document: it doesn’t take much to fall victim to a cyber attack. There are a variety of attacks that can greatly hurt your company and lead to a loss of finances and sensitive information, but ransomware attacks a...
The annual C5ISR Summit in Charleston, SC turned out a record number of attendees (over 1200) this year. While many Defense Contractors are finding it hard to make money from this market, in part due to the reducing DoD Budget, SPAWAR System Center Atlantic’s scale-back of Non-Navy Work, and a loc...
16-21 Nov 2014 the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14) was hosted in New Orleans and once again it did not disappoint! Each year SC14 brings together a large number of folks from the High Performance Computing (HPC) community, basically t...
Forge.mil provides some very important functionality that developers in the DoD ecosystem need and more importantly allow the technology leadership of DoD to ensure more appropriate influence over enterprise software projects. But it has been criticized by many in the community for not being as full...
The United States and Japan just released their Interim Report on the Revision of the Guidelines for U.S. – Japan Defense Cooperation. (Available here: http://www.defense.gov/pubs/20141003_INTERIM_REPORT.pdf) Anyone who works U.S.-Japan interoperability issues (from policy to technology) will be i...
DoD continues to struggle to put their Cyber Force organization and governance in place. Paul Simon nailed it! Still Crazy… after all these years…. Last week we talked about all the money and effort Army is going through to stand up their new Cyber Army. This week, Navy announced the initial ope...
Enterprise IT and cyber security professionals should all track the recent news of Symantec splitting into two publicly traded firms. Before giving our cut, review the official press release here: Symantec Announces New Strategy to Fuel Growth and Plans to Separate into Two Public Industry-Leading T...
There is little reliable reporting on what is happening in North Korea right now. But if you have not been tracking the news here are a few items of interest: Kim Jong Un hasn’t been seen publicly since 3 Sep 2014. This is not normal. This is fueling speculation that there has been a coup [&he...