Need to build secure software? Free help is online.
SAFECode, an industry group promoting reliability in commercial software, is releasing a free online training course on the basics secure software development.
Agencies can't count the savings in consolidation push
Agencies are seeing benefits from consolidation, though most can't quantify cost savings, according to a MeriTalk survey. And 56 percent of IT pros grade agencies' efforts at "C" or below.
Equinix expands East Coast IP hub with new data center
The eight data centers on the company's sprawling Ashburn, Va., campus operate as one virtual building, serving as North America's largest IP traffic hub.
Kodak unveils 3 cloud-oriented scanners at FOSE
The company says its new applications are designed to help public-sector agencies deal with tight budgets and compliance standards.
Boston drops Exchange for Google Apps, as battle of cloud app providers plays on
The city switches out Microsoft Exchange for Google’s cloud-based service, citing better prices if not security.
Tomorrow's tech on display at FOSE
Exhibitors on the show floor at FOSE 2013 offer technologies that can help agencies meet 21st century challenges.
Universities get schooled on DNS amplification attacks
The open access policies at educational institutions can leave them open to being exploited as bots in large-scale distributed denial of service attacks. There are steps they can take to mitigate the problem.
DHS coming up short on Einstein deployment
Deployment of the governmentwide intrusion detection system was scheduled to be completed last year, but there still are a "bunch of agencies not covered."
Lightweight KVM console is tough enough for the road, too
ATEN's CL3000N fits into a 1U rack-mountable housing and is MIL-STD 810G-certified for vibrations.
UEFI expanding from PCs into mobile devices, even heavy equipment
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, which replaced BIOS for booting Windows 8, is moving into mobile and non-PC devices.
The key to surviving the Blue Screen of Death blues
When the dreaded screen hits, as it did for John Breeden II recently, it's best to have already expected the worst.
Social network analysis, predictive coding enlisted to fight fraud
New analytic technologies will help agencies and investigators look deeper into behavioral patterns to combat some of the more sophisticated fraud schemes on the horizon.
What's hot at FOSE 2013
The annual conference and expo kicks off Tuesday, tackling the key challenges facing the public-sector IT community.
Linux leads in open-source quality, but risky defects lurk
A seven-year study finds the quality of open-source software development neck-and-neck with proprietary code.
Google puts decades of Earth's changes into time-lapse animation
Google Earth Engine collects and converts millions of Landsat images from USGS into a picture of how the Earth's surface has changed.
iOS 6 for iPhones, iPads gets FIPS 140-2 certification
NIST adds the Apple iOS CoreCrypto Kernel Module v3.0 to its Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) certification list.
Cray unveils a supercomputer for the rest of us
The XC30-AC systems start at $500,000 and offer speeds ranging from 22 to 176 teraflops.
Facing a data quagmire, Nebraska puts storage systems in order
Nebraska's Office of the Chief Information Officer has turned to virtual tape storage tech to tackle a growing data overload.
Is 'fear the auditor' holding back real IT security?
The emerging focus on automating IT security raises the question: will agencies automate FISMA compliance or risk management?
Unbreakable encryption remains a pipe dream, even on a quantum Internet
Despite efforts to use the principles of quantum computing to create unbreakable encryption, the system fails outside a lab or highly controlled setting.
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