We focus most of our writings here on the technology community in and around the Washington DC area. This is our base and you readers are our the community we most want to serve with information. We have been in the tech community for years and over time have established broad networks and are frequently [...]
HHS launches internal innovation incubator, Owens rewrites USPTO’s IT future and more
March 27, 2013 By
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Four simple steps to protect the US from hackers – Gartner is forecasting an additional 8% cyber spend by firms in 2013, already. As well, the barrier to entry for hacking has been lowered (as Matt and I discussed in yesterday’s [...]
Centripetal Networks Provides Internet Scale Cyber Defense
March 26, 2013 By
By Bob Gourley I’m on the board of Centripetal Networks, a firm with dramatically virtuous technology that I believe will change the world. With this post I’ll tell you more about this firm, with a focus on the differentiators of their capability. The core capability of Centripetal Networks is a product called the RuleGate. It [...]
Amazon Snags $600M from CIA for Cloud Services, House committee approves FITARA, FISMA update and more
March 21, 2013 By
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Copyright Chief Urges Congress to Produce ‘Next Great Copyright Act’ – “Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante told a House congressional subcommittee Wednesday that everything from anticircumvention provisions and fair use to length of copyright and performance royalties should be on the [...]
DARPA’S Cyber Tools: We have had our hands on DARPA’s distribution platform for cyber defense tools
March 15, 2013 By
By ChrisScott It’s long been known that to win in a cyber war, DoD has to have a way to get an asymmetric advantage in time, cost and contribution – something that is mostly alien to the Defense Acquisition process. A few years ago DARPA started something called the Cyber Fast Track (CFT) program. This [...]
Announcing Our Latest Product: The Weekly DoD and IC Technology Review
March 15, 2013 By
By Bob Gourley With this post we are announcing the latest in our newsletter series, the CTOvision DoD and IC Technology Review. This weekly report leveraged the same publishing platform (Mailchimp) as our other newsletters giving our readers tailorable control over which newsletters are of most interest to you while protecting your email information. The [...]
SEI Unveils their findings in the Cyber Intelligence Tradecraft Project
March 13, 2013 By
By Ryan Kamauff The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has recently released their summary of key findings on their Cyber Intelligence Tradecraft Project (CITP). Last year, six government agencies partnered with twenty academic and industry organizations to determine best practices in cyber intelligence tradecraft. This study has found that organizations use [...]
Data rationalizing vs Data Consolidation
March 11, 2013 By
By ChrisScott Consolidating data centers has always made sense. Having the data securely tucked away into well-managed data centers has got to improve performance and even cyber security. It will also require fewer of those really smart, well-trained (expensive) system administrators to keep things straight. And if done right, it should save on energy costs [...]
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