When Defense Secretary Hagel announced that he was going to expand his cyber workforce by more than 6,000 by the end of 2016, I think most of us in the industry collectively wondered: “Where the heck is he going to FIND these cyber warriors?” While almost every University is paying attention to ...
All who track DoD technology issues have been waiting way too long to see DoD to capitalize on the benefits of Cloud Solutions. This topic has been studied for years (see, for example, DSB Report on Cyber Security and Reliability in a Digital Cloud). Building on years of work, Ms. Takai, DoD’s CI...
It’s always interesting to see how large, complex organizations have morphed over time to absorb the increasing importance of IT and Cyber. Industry, academia and government have approached this important task with varying solutions. It’s sometimes unbelievably frustrating to watch as years roll...
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...
The Unified Certification Standard (UCS) is a certification and audit (similar to a SAS70 Audit) for the cloud computing and managed services industry. Developed by MSPs for MSPs, it’s the longest standing program of its type in existence. The UCS is a standard unlike any other in that it comes wi...
NIST is convening a collective of experienced practitioners, scientists, engineers and thought leaders to continue to advance the community’s ability to deal with data. This group will meet in a symposium format 4 and 5 March 2014 at the NIST campus in Gaithersburg MD. Here is more on this fir...
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Federal IT managers are working to adopt cloud computing technologies and comply with White House cloud computing initiatives, but aren’t yet sold on cloud computing’s cost savings or security, according to a recent survey....