IBM Invests In Cloud Computing (0)
7/02/09 •
Since IBM’s partnership with Google to introduce ‘cloud computing’ to universities over two years ago, IBM has started to invest in computing outside the realm of academia. Stating on its website “Cloud computing focuses on the user, and offers highly efficient acquisition and delivery of IT and information services. Cloud computing is defined and characterized by massive [...]
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GAO Proposes Changes to FISMA (0)
7/02/09 •
The Government Accountablitity Office has written a letter, to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Government Management, Organization and Procurement Subcommittee, proposing changes to the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002. They believe that the changes would decrease the amount of risk involved in federal information security.
The GAO has proposed that although [...]
United States Cyber Security: Monroe Doctrine? Space Race? Let the Analogies Begin (0)
7/01/09 •
With new emphasis of cyber security in America and around the world, analogies are being drawn every which way. How should we treat cyber security? Should we create a treaty similar to the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 as recommended by Mary Ann Davidson of Oracle and supported by the director of the National Security Agency Lieutenant General [...]
White House Promises Less Talk More Action For Cyber Security (0)
7/01/09 •
At the Gartner annual Information Security Summit the National Cyber Security Council director Christopher Painter assured skeptics in the cyber community that the Obama administration is taking cyber security seriously and there will be action. Critics are worried that with no budgetary authority the ‘cyber czar’ will become no more than a figurehead and be boggled [...]
Georgetown Cyber Expert Interview: Obama Good Start/Research Needed (0)
6/30/09 •
Associate Provost at Georgetown University and cyber expert on the CSIS Cyber Security Commission Professor Marjory Blumenthal spoke with The New New Internet about the White House Cyber Security Policy. Professor Blumenthal believes a trial and error model is needed to create effective change in cybersecurity and that international cyber law will eventually be utilized and could be similar [...]
