By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Malware Infects Two Power Plants Lacking Basic Security Controls – The most recent DHS Industrial Control System (ICS) CERT report has knowledge of two infected power plants via USB drive vectors. Updated antivirus software did find the malware, but not for someRead… Read more »
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Federal Cloud Computing Experiences Slowdown Due to Security
With federal agencies facing a September 10 deadline to report on the details of their cloud computing initiatives, the Office of Management and Budget is increasing pressure to transition appropriate services to less expensive cloud alternatives. Budgetary realities combined with the successes experienced by other agencies, such as with cloud-based invoice managementsoftware for e-procurement, haveRead… Read more »
End of Fiscal Year 2012 Sparks Federal Cloud Computing Expansion
As the fiscal year draws to a close, the United States’ government agencies are apparently taking the Office of Management and Budget’s new cloud-first guidelines to heart. Over the last several days, agencies have been rushing to award contracts with their remaining budgets in an effort to avoid returning the excess to the Treasury. NextGovRead… Read more »
EPA Moves E-mail to the Cloud
U.S. federal agencies are continuing their expansion into cloud-based services, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcing a deal with Microsoft to transition e-mail and other services to the cloud. InformationWeek reports that the deal is expected to save the agency approximately $12 million over four years and will cost $9.8 million to deploy. TheRead… Read more »
COTS Cloud security reference design and related NIST workshop
By RyanKamauff Since the beginning of the modern Cloud movement (which we trace to November 2006 — see here if you want to know why) technologists have been seeking ways to mitigate key risks. Top on our list include 1) The increased risk due to multi-tenancy 2) The mission needs of availability (including the needRead… Read more »
Top 3 Reasons to Consider a Cloud-ECM Solution
Thoughts from my colleague Glenn Gibson… The idea of running enterprise applications in the cloud is no longer revolutionary. SalesForce.com single-handedly managed to slip cloud-based CRM into many high-profile organizations, without anyone seeming to bat an eye. And Office 365 is now boasting some great success stories. It’s safe to say that people are distinctlyRead… Read more »
Hold The Date: 30 Jan Cloudera is sponsoring a federal Big Data Forum focused on national security missions
By BobGourley Friends at Cloudera are lead sponsors and coordinators of a new Big Data Forum focused on Apache Hadoop. The first, which will be held 30 January 2013 in Columbia Maryland, will be focused on lessons learned of use to the national security community. This is primarily for practitioners and leaders fielding real workingRead… Read more »
Cloud Front Group Capabilities Featured in Geospatial Intelligence Forum
By BobGourley The Geospatial Intelligence Forum highlighted the capabilities of the Cloud Front Group in an assessment titled “Analysis for Action” This piece highlights the importance of well engineered systems to extract and move the right information. Cloud Front Group is known for their work with the best available American technologies including capabilities from SaratogaRead… Read more »
Far from the maddening cloud
Reading some of the coverage of Instagram’s change in their terms of service, you’d have thought a murder had been committed. Or maybe that the world was about to end. A few years down what might once have been called the Web 2.0 road, well funded companies are finding that they have built their networks,Read… Read more »
Agencies Need to Get to the Cloud, Faster and Easier
This post was originally published by Anthony Robbins, VP Federal, Brocade, here. You might have heard about Brocade’s recent acquisition of a company called Vyatta. Vyatta is built on the fact that software-based networking is a critical component in network virtualization, and that software networking will actually transform those same networks into innovation platforms. TheRead… Read more »