SQL Server 2000 gets C2 certification; security tests under way for Win 2000
SQL Server 2000 is the first Microsoft Corp. database management system to be certified at the C2 security level through the government's Trust Technology Assessment Program.
NIST automates work processes, adds digital forms and signatures
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is implementing a wide-ranging workflow program that is more ambitious than the paperless goals of many agencies.
IRS migrates personal PC settings to new systems
The IRS' End-User Computing Support Division will use a computer personality migration tool to standardize the agency's desktop PC environment across the service over the next several months.
Data from federal records used to commit identity theft
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill.'The government has become an unwitting accomplice in identity theft, said speakers at the High-Tech Computer Investigators Association meeting last month.
GAO findings on government privacy issues differ
A pair of General Accounting Office reports released last month paint differing pictures of the privacy protection that government Web sites afford consumers.
NASA hacker sentenced to juvenile facility
A 16-year-old hacker who last year broke into NASA systems will spend six months in a juvenile detention facility.
Group lays foundation for expanding PKI use
An interagency group is developing a framework to certify federal public-key infrastructure policies and establish trust levels for interagency PKI use.
Research institute to review FBI's Carnivore
The Justice Department last week awarded a $175,000 contract to the IIT Research Institute of Chicago to perform an independent technical review of the FBI's controversial Carnivore e-mail filtering system.
FirstGov connects users to 27 million Web pages
To quote Dr. Frankenstein: 'It's ALIVE!'
Thin clients
Thin is in. Sales of thin clients have more than tripled since 1998, when 350,000 units were sold, according to a survey by International Data Corp., a market research company in Framingham, Mass. Sales reached 1.2 million last year, and most analysts predict the total to exceed 6 million annually by 2003.
Air Force trying to thin out its multiple e-mail servers
Air Force officials are trying to reduce the number of e-mail servers and use remote server administration to lower support costs, and hardware and software purchases.
Marine receives Gray award
A former enlisted Marine who almost left the Corps 10 years ago has received the first annual award to recognize the service's top command and control systems officer.
BRIEFING BOOK
Shifting gears. The $10 billion Navy-Marine Corps In-tranet outsourcing procurement for voice, video and data services is forcing a fee-for-service organization within the Defense Department to reposition itself.
Palm V is the most popular handheld among feds
The handheld computer is steadily becoming part of feds' information technology arsenal. And the weapon of choice, a GCN Reader Survey found, comes from Palm Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif.
INTERVIEW: R. Michael Green, Defense PKI chief
As director of the Defense Department's Public-Key Infrastructure Program Management Office, R. Michael Green helps set and implement PKI policy for use across Defense.
NARA serves up records via Web
SEPT. 29—The National Archives and Records Administration yesterday announced that agencies can retrieve documents from NARA records centers over the Web.
Johnson to head service development at FTS
SEPT. 28'John Johnson, formerly the Defense Department's transition manager for FTS 2001, will replace Bruce Brignull as assistant commissioner for service development at the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service.
States, feds to cooperate on electronic government
SEPT. 28'Chief information officers from 20 states and federal CIOs from the Defense, Treasury, Transportation and Commerce departments, and the General Services Administration and NASA yesterday agreed to form a task force to explore joint electronic-government projects.
The Tiny BlackBerry might be the ultimate pager
No matter how convenient wireless e-mail might be, it generally works only through a special address. The user has to spend a lot of time figuring out how to make the office e-mail system forward messages to that address.
Bigger is better for the 21-inch F980 monitor
Bigger is better, right?
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