By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyWith this note we provide some administrative reminders and information on how you can make the best use of the CTOvision.com Technology Discovery Platform. We also provide links that will let you add or remove yourself from our e-mail newsletters. CTOvision provides up t... Jun. 17, 2013 10:28 AM EDT Reads: 153 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffToday’s data repositories are growing at a huge pace. Many vendors claim to have the panacea for data woes, but using only one vendor can often result in vendor lock-in (at great cost to the agency). Cleversafe is a unique data management product that is distribute... Jun. 14, 2013 05:18 PM EDT Reads: 476 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffApple held their annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference this week. Most of the internet is abuzz, everyone with an opinion of their own. They released details on new versions of OS X (now called Mavericks) and iOS 7. As well, the released new versions of their Mac... Jun. 14, 2013 01:13 PM EDT Reads: 315 |
By Bob Gourley By ChrisScottThe recently released summary of the Air-Sea Battle: Service Collaboration to Address Anti-Access and Area Denial Challenges provides interesting reading on how DoD is preparing to meet evolving threats. It’s a direct challenge to DoD components to work together and collab... Jun. 14, 2013 08:35 AM EDT Reads: 268 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyAFCEA continues to help facilitate dialog on issues of importance to the nation regarding technology and national security. An event I believe you will find of high interest is their July 30-31 2013 Global Intelligence Forum. I have pasted information below from their sit... Jun. 13, 2013 05:48 PM EDT Reads: 220 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffHere are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Coasties don’t want expensive TISCOM laptops – According to a recent DHS audit, the Coast Guard is sitting on over 5,000 laptops in Coast Guard Telecommunications and Information Systems Command warehouses. ... Jun. 13, 2013 03:36 PM EDT Reads: 329 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleySystems Integrators must put quality first or they will fail. Every integrator I know has processes in place to ensure program success. The best include rigorous reviews early in program life to help program managers succeed. Rigorous review processes check program docume... Jun. 13, 2013 02:59 PM EDT |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffIn this podcast I interviewed Alicia Saia, Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, Public Sector at MarkLogic. Alicia and I talked a lot about how MarkLogic is helping to change the way people look at data, how it integrates with their current generation and legacy systems,... Jun. 12, 2013 05:37 PM EDT Reads: 179 |
By Bob Gourley By Markus EhrenmuellerEditor’s note: Markus Ehrenmueller-Jensen is the author of Microsoft Business Tools, and is well positioned to provide context on ways users can better leverage these tools. -bg Big Data I can remember back in the beginning of my own school time, what a sens... Jun. 12, 2013 09:11 AM EDT Reads: 743 |
By Bob Gourley By ChrisScottSome Traditions are NOT needed! Back in the day… the process to transmit Navy messages included strict accountability and control and were hugely labor intensive. But as official information exchange technologies become more prevalent, DoD transitioned to other means to ... Jun. 11, 2013 10:47 PM EDT Reads: 160 |
By Bob Gourley By SeanLawsonWhat started last week as a series of reports on domestic spying by the NSA took a turn towards cyber security on Friday when Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian published the top secret Presidential Policy Directive 20 (PPD–20), which deals with U.S. policy... Jun. 11, 2013 01:31 PM EDT Reads: 292 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffHere are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Brace for malware-fighting IE, Office patches - Microsoft is finally patching the vulnerabilities in IE this week. The weakness is in versions 6-10 of the software. 19 of the 23 patches Microsoft is rolling out today ar... Jun. 11, 2013 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 316 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyFCW is presenting an interesting session in DC 20 June 2013 which will focus on the new tools, technologies and management strategies bing developed to help government agencies manage and use their data to gain insights, solve problems and discover new info in their data ... Jun. 10, 2013 06:54 PM EDT Reads: 261 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyEditor’s note: This guest post by Wayne Wheeles focuses on a topic I’ve struggled with for over a 15 years and shows great promise in addressing challenges no one else has tackled. Wayne is a Network Forensics Analytic/Enrichment Developer at Six3 Systems. &#... Jun. 10, 2013 06:08 PM EDT Reads: 323 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyOne of the biggest problems in robotics deals with how a mobile device can know, with precision, where it is. This might sound easy to do but it is complicated by the fact that autonomous robots can move all over the place including over and through a variety of changing ... Jun. 10, 2013 03:36 PM EDT Reads: 485 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyAre you a technologist considering a career shift? Here are some resources we hope you will find of use: For networking with other technologists, join our LinkedIn group on Disruptive IT. The group focuses on enterprise technologists so you will be connecting with a wide... Jun. 10, 2013 08:39 AM EDT Reads: 246 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyCountering targeted attacks with active defense strategies Firewalls block basic attacks on your network, antivirus scanners filter known offenders, and no enterprise should operate without them. Still, focused attackers and zero-day exploits make short work of entrenched... Jun. 7, 2013 09:49 AM EDT Reads: 234 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyThis event should be of interest to any enterprise that uses Hadoop and wants to empower analysts directly with new analytical power over their Hadoop clusters. Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Time: 11am Eastern; 8am Pacific Duration: 1 Hour The success of Hadoop has led man... Jun. 7, 2013 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 273 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffIn this podcast I examine some of the top cyber stories of the past week.There are many Apache websites unsecured, data breaches continue to cost the US more than any other nation and more. As well we delve into HHS’s new Datapalooza initiatives and some neat Andro... Jun. 6, 2013 03:40 PM EDT Reads: 201 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffHere are the top cyber news and stories of the day. More than 360,000 Apache websites imperiled by critical Plesk vulnerability – “Hundreds of thousands of websites could be endangered by publicly available attack code exploiting a critical vulnerability in t... Jun. 6, 2013 11:43 AM EDT Reads: 592 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffHere are the top mobile news and stories of the day. FreedomPop promises 200 mins of voice calls and unlimited texts on its free plan – FreedomPop used to be a data only carrier; however, they are now offering 200 mins of free voice calls as well. FreedomPop offers... Jun. 5, 2013 11:37 AM EDT Reads: 411 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyNote: we previous summarized and pointed you to a closely related DSB report on Resilient Military Systems and the Cyber Threat. These two studies are related and the study teams held some joint meetings to help ensure the best possible recommendations for the department.... Jun. 5, 2013 08:41 AM EDT Reads: 290 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffHere are the top cyber news and stories of the day. The future of military sensor systems: self-powered wireless Android boxes – DARPA’s new prototype sensor is an Android device with customized software. It allows sensor equipment to be plugged in as need be... Jun. 4, 2013 12:39 PM EDT Reads: 247 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffMarkLogic is hosting a short Big Data symposium on the 19th of June, 2013, at the Washington Marriott Metro Center. This event explores how some government agencies have successfully exploited Big Data capabilities to take advantage of new technologies. The agenda is bel... Jun. 4, 2013 12:01 PM EDT Reads: 166 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffJoin us for the Federal CTO Open Source Summit with Event Ambassador, Mr. John Marshall, NGA Date: 20 June Location: Marriott Metro Center This conference brings together Federal CTO’s and industry professionals in a day long content rich exchange of information fo... Jun. 4, 2013 10:34 AM EDT Reads: 553 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffIn this podcast I interviewed Bob Butler, Chief Information Security Officer at IO. IO is the leading provider of next-generation modular data center technology and services designs, engineers and delivers cloud enabling data center infrastructure and software for the wo... Jun. 4, 2013 08:57 AM EDT Reads: 142 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyDear readers, You are savvy technology executives, decision-makers, leaders and users and you know better than others the nuances and complexities and promise of the multi-platform world we find ourselves in today. So we have a favor to ask. This favor will only take a mo... Jun. 3, 2013 03:24 PM EDT Reads: 127 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffHere are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Your iPhone Can Be Hacked With a Modified Charger – This scary news from the Georgia Institute of Technology is that a team of researchers have created a prototype iPhone charger which can inject malware onto dev... Jun. 3, 2013 11:26 AM EDT Reads: 378 |
By Bob Gourley By ChrisScottHere we go again. Another NGEN delay. The program office announced this week that they have “re-entered discussions” with the offerors – HP and a team led by CSC. This program has been so long in the making it’s hard to stay positive. By the time anything gets delivered,... Jun. 1, 2013 02:01 PM EDT Reads: 257 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffIn this podcast I examined some of the top cyber stories of the past week. The Chinese IP theft issues are still going strong, requiring comment from the President as well as leading some people down some pretty freaky paths. GSA has unveiled their government-wide MDM pr... May. 31, 2013 03:08 PM EDT Reads: 178 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffHere are the top cyber news and stories of the day. GSA unveils governmentwide MDM program - “The General Services Administration launched May 30 the new governmentwide Mobile Device Management Program that aims to streamline the procurement process for agencies to... May. 31, 2013 10:04 AM EDT Reads: 543 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyEvery year Mary Meeker does the tech and business community a great service by researching, analyzing and reporting on the State of the Internet. Her latest presentation is embedded below in slideshare format and is also available at this link. KPCB Internet Trends 2013 f... May. 31, 2013 07:24 AM EDT Reads: 692 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffHere are the top mobile news and stories of the day. Apple announces new $229 16GB iPod touch: 4-inch Retina display, no rear-facing camera - Apple has announced their latest iPod Touch offering. The iPod touch was a huge seller at first, because it allowed people to get... May. 30, 2013 09:11 PM EDT Reads: 2,709 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffJust saw a post at Semantic Web that captured the MarkLogic vision from their MarkLogic World conference. Check it out At SemanticWeb here. Here is a short excerpt: Last month at its MarkLogic World 2013 conference, the enterprise NoSQL database platform provider talked ... May. 30, 2013 06:50 PM EDT Reads: 198 |
By Bob Gourley By Carsten EilersWebSockets are intended to build bi-directional connections between a webbrowser and a server. This must be done in a safe way. In addition, the WebSockets have a huge disadvantage (to say it politely). WebSockets, the safe way For WebSocket connections you must follow... May. 30, 2013 04:10 PM EDT Reads: 126 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffToday, everyone is trying to figure out how to how to store, how to optimize, and how to make sense over their vast data stores. One problem is that the velocity of this incoming data is not slowing, it is accelerating, and data stores are filling up faster than ever. T... May. 30, 2013 11:24 AM EDT Reads: 277 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyGartner just released their overview of the worldwide server market reporting that worldwide server shipments declined a surprising .7 percent year on year, while revenue declined 5 percent from the first quarter of 2012. Their report is available here. Key points: “The f... May. 30, 2013 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 401 |
By Bob Gourley By Bob GourleyWe have previously written about the very virtuous activities of the Security Innovation Network (SINET). This widely known, highly respected collaborative group seeks to advance the state of innovation in the cyber security domain. Information on a coming event you will ... May. 29, 2013 04:29 PM EDT Reads: 234 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffHere are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Commission wants to turn tables on IP thieves by crippling PCs with extortion-style lock-outs – “Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property ... May. 29, 2013 12:49 PM EDT Reads: 334 |
By Bob Gourley By Ryan KamauffIn this podcast I examined some of the top mobile stories of the past week. As I stated in the podcast, a lot has been going on in the mobile world. In a few short weeks there will be Apple’s WWDC, in which they will announce what’s going on with iOS7, the ne... May. 29, 2013 09:23 AM EDT Reads: 219 |
Bob Gourley, former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), is Founder and CTO of Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm providing fact based technology reviews in support of venture capital, private equity and emerging technology firms. He has extensive industry experience in intelligence and security and was awarded an intelligence community meritorious achievement award by AFCEA in 2008, and has also been recognized as an Infoworld Top 25 CTO and as one of the most fascinating communicators in Government IT by GovFresh.
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