By Bob Gourley With this post I would like to share some great news I read about TASC. They have just hired a fantastic enterprise technology/mission-focused thinker, Dr. Keith Littlefield, to be their CTO. Here is the story from the TASC press release: March 4, 2013 TASC Names Dr. Keith Littlefield Chief Technology Officer NGARead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley In this podcast we discuss some of the impacts of sequestration, and dive a bit deeper into the impact that these cuts are having on federally focused conferences. We also discuss other ways that government professionals can keep learning about advanced technologies, like more use of webinars and online demos and theRead… Read more »
By ChrisScott Watching that old pendulum swing! Nothing puts me to sleep faster than the tick-tock of a clock. Better yet: a grandfather clock! I love sitting there watching the pendulum swing back and forth, back and forth. It’s hypnotic! So maybe that’s why I keep falling asleep as this “sequestration crisis” implodes around me!Read… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top mobile news and stories of the day. The White House responds: phones and tablets should be unlockable – After the Library of Congress stated that (carrier) unlocking your smartphone would be illegal, a petition to the White House was heard, and the FCC will be investigating the legalityRead… Read more »
By Marcus Williams Background Triumfant, Inc. is a privately held company with a focus on detecting and remediating cyber attacks. Triumfant has a ’Assume Nothing, Scan everything’ approach to cyber detection and prevention. This approach was developed in response to changes in the threat landscape that greatly increased the frequency and sophistication of targeted attacksRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Evernote Hack Exposes User Data, Forces Extensive Password Resets – If you are an Evernote user, chances are you got quite the shock this weekend. Evernote forced a manual reset for all of its users, and “About 50 million passwords haveRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley piXlogic is widely known in the DoD and intelligence community for its ability to provide visual search solutions that automatically analyze and index the contents of images and video files, providing unparalleled levels of search functionality. They are also widely known in commercial industry, winning awards from such noted journals as KMWorld.Read… Read more »
By Jose Nazario February was an incredible month of developments. Obviously the two big stories are the Mandiant report on the group tagged APT 1, and the White House’s reactions to the cyber espionage issue by using international trade efforts. Even the NYT, WaPo and WSJ hacks all pale in comparison to these developments. ARead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley Bottom Line Up Front: After reviewing all available evidence and rigorously weighing threat information, a Task Force of the Defense Science Board (DSB) concludes that: the United States cannot be confident that our critical Information Technology (IT) systems will work under attack from a sophisticated and well-resourced opponent. How does that makeRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley This is not surprising news, but still I’m sad to report this. The 2013 Defense Intelligence Worldwide Conference has been cancelled. This event had evolved from the famous (in my community anyway) DoDIIS Conference, an event that over my career grew from 50 people in a little room to 3000 global technologyRead… Read more »