CTOvision, CTOlabs and the tech consultancy behind them Crucial Point LLC are all run out of the Washington DC area. We seek global views of technology but this region is definitely our base and we have a very high percentage of readers in the local ecosystem. For those of you here, you know the biggestRead… Read more »

CTOlabs.com, a subsidiary of the technology research, consulting and services firm Crucial Point LLC and a peer site of CTOvision.com, has just published a white paper providing context and use cases on Hadoop For Law Enforcement, an important mission-focused domain ripe for the application of more Big Data solutions. From the report: Big Data, theRead… Read more »

The Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA) is holding another excellent event on Tuesday, July 10 for the CCSA’s new capstone report, Addressing Cyber Instability. The report discusses how cyberspace is an inherently unstable national security domain which, due to its characteristics such as low barriers to entry, altersRead… Read more »

CTOvision Mobile is an Android Application designed to bring content from CTOvision, CTOlabs, Twitter and YouTube together for technologists. Download it to your Android device from the Google Play market. The application focuses on content we create for technologists, but it also contains a curated list of coming events we believe are of high interestRead… Read more »

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: C. Frank Figliuzzi, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s counterintelligence division, told congress that foreign hacking and corporate spying against American companies is on the rise, with $13 billion in losses from corporate espionage this year. More here. The Department of Homeland Security Inspector GeneralRead… Read more »

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released findings from a cyber security study which focused on the economic espionage aspects of the cyber threat. Their report, available at: GAO-12-876T : Cyber Threats Facilitate Ability To Commit Economic Espionage provides an update and summary of several incidents in the private sector which underscore the nature ofRead… Read more »

Recorded Futureis the first temporal analytics engine enabling web intelligence, pulling open source information from the Internet and indexing it for analysis by event type and time, thereby allowing users to tap into the predictive power of the web. Recorded Future has proven capabilities to forecast unrest demonstrated in a previous webcast and used byRead… Read more »

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: IBM and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are working together on the Vulcan supercomputer to analyze data for developing new technologies in applied energy, green energy, manufacturing, data management and other fields. More here. The Senate Commerce Committee is holding a hearing today on whether theRead… Read more »

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Federal Bureau of Investigation plans to have its Next-Generation Identification system, which will include nationwide iris scan and facial imaging databases, ready for testing by 2014. More here. A military judge has ordered prosecutors to show they are not withholding evidence from Bradley Manning afterRead… Read more »