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Yearly Archives: 2012
Encryption of police radio
Deltek Analyst Luke Harris reports. Police departments are more and more looking into encrypting their radio communications now that cheaper and user-friendly scanner equipment is readily available. From the view of police departments, this move increases officer and public safety because it shields their communications from criminals. From the perspective of news media and governmentRead… Read more »
Data.gc.ca – Data Sets I found that are interesting, and some suggestions
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Canadian federal government’s open data portal. Over the past year government officials have been continuously adding to the portal, but as it isn’t particularly easy to browse data sets on the website, I’ve noticed a lot of people aren’t aware of what data is now available (selfRead… Read more »
Federal District Court Issues Troubling Decision Regarding Public Disclosure Bar
Guest Blogger: Jason Workmaster, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP In a long-running civil False Claims Act (“FCA”) case, United States ex rel. Rille v. Sun Microsystems, Inc., No. 4:04-C-V00986-BRW, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas recently denied a Government motion to dismiss, on public disclosure grounds, the relators’ claim that SunRead… Read more »
The Fifth Gate in the Pipeline: Managing a Business
By the time, we’ve gotten to the Fifth Gate in the Leadership Pipeline, we should have spent some quality time mastering the previous four. This gate is punctuated by enormous complexity and significant (perhaps the most significant of all the gates) changes in thinking. The Business Manager needs to come to terms with being highlyRead… Read more »
How to Be CEO (Chief Empathy Officer)
In government, we are the masters of overcomplication. We setup committees, author manuals, and track changes until we’re blue in the face. We write information memoranda, action memoranda, and seek an endless list of clearances for the back pages of each. You would think our routinized collaboration would yield an organizational ethos of communication, mutualRead… Read more »
Celebrating National Purchasing Month: Delaware’s network term contracts
Deltek Analyst Lindsay Clifton reports. To celebrate National Purchasing Month as well as Sunshine Week, Deltek is looking at statewide term contracts and spending figures often available as states become more transparent in their financial reporting. Delaware is one of the first states to display contract spend volume in an easily-analyzed form. We examined twoRead… Read more »
Hacking the hacktivist: The inside scoop on how Anonymous works
Hacking the hacktivist: The inside scoop on how Anonymous works by GovLoop Insights 2011 may very well be the year of Anonymous — the hactivist group took down the Justice Department website, Stratfor, mastercard, defense contractor Vanguard and even the Vatican. Their reach is impressive…and even more so when you consider how Anonymous runs. TheRead… Read more »
The Importance of Preserving Institutional Knowledge in the Public Sector
One of the important steps that an organization can take is improving its knowledge management programs. Knowledge management can be used to describe numerous initiatives, but the central goal is to preserve institutional knowledge. Organizations have taken different approaches to knowledge management, by either using a high level software service or other low cost initiativesRead… Read more »
Into the Unknown: What an Anonymous attack looks like
Hacktivist collective Anonymous has been a persistent pain to government agencies and private companies alike for the past few years; after a 2011 full of attacks, that trend doesn’t appear to be slowing. To learn more about how Anonymous works, we spoke with Rob Rachwald, Director of Security Strategy at Imperva. Attacks by Anonymous areRead… Read more »