Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. hōrd iPhone app aims to revolutionize contract visibility – “ hōrd gives users access to real-time contract activity, including the ability to follow new listings by agency, specific contracting officers and private-sector contract history and activity.” This data comes from FedBizOpps and USAspending.gov. ThisRead… Read more »
Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. hōrd iPhone app aims to revolutionize contract visibility – “ hōrd gives users access to real-time contract activity, including the ability to follow new listings by agency, specific contracting officers and private-sector contract history and activity.” This data comes from FedBizOpps and USAspending.gov. ThisRead… Read more »
2013 Boston Marathon Aftermath (wikipedia) “Capitol Police are responding to reports of suspicious packages in the Hart and Russell Senate office buildings and a bomb squad is on the scene. The buildings have not been evacuated, but certain areas of the buildings have been closed.” – Politico, April 17, 2013 The recent terror attack atRead… Read more »
By very popular demand, the Big Data briefing team that packs events coast to coast is returning to DC for a day of sessions that will provide lessons learned from real-world deployments of Big Data solutions. Come hear from engineers who contribute code to the open source projects around Hadoop, the technologists who deliver realRead… Read more »
I’ve been watching the incredible team of mission-focused technologists as form Cumulogic since my friend Bill Vass alerted me to their virtuous computing approaches in early 2011. Since then they have provided many updates on their website of their approach, partners, intent and technology. And technical marketing champion Laura Ventura of Cumulogic has supported myRead… Read more »
Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Report: US Smart Grid Cybersecurity Spending to Reach $7.25B by 2020 – a recent study by research firm Zpryme forecasts annual spending to reach $7.25B in 2020. The focus of this money will be on ICS and SCADA solutions. Via GreenTechMedia, more here. NavyRead… Read more »
On 4 April 2013, Carahsoft sponsored the Third Annual Government Big Data Forum. This post is the second in a series that seeks to capture key elements of the forum and keep the dialog going. This post captures a high level summary of our three keynote presentations. Kirit Amin kicked off the morning with greatRead… Read more »
In this podcast I interviewed Mauricio Renzi, Federal Solutions Architect at Silver Tail Systems. Silver Tail Systems is the leader in real-time web session intelligence and behavioral analysis to provide visibility into web traffic and protection from cybercrime, online fraud, and business logic abuse. Mauricio and I discussed Silver Tail’s Web Session Intelligence and behavioralRead… Read more »
Kevin David Mitnick, former most wanted hacker and reformed security consultant Editor’s note: Timothy Coleman is a prolific writer and analyst who publishes frequently on topics of interest to operational technologists as well as strategic technology thinkers. Olivia Wilson is an award winning literary theorist. We will be bringing you more of their writings inRead… Read more »
Virginia has a long history of technology innovation and pro-business/pro-growth policies. It is also blessed with a great mix of generally good weather, great recreation, fantastic engineering and computer science schools, and a state legislature and group of voters that consistently elect leaders who seek to keep taxes tolerable. When you add in the factRead… Read more »