Cybersecurity game plan needs stronger educational strategy
Computer science students should get college scholarships like basketball or football players, a senior official in DHS' National Cybersecurity Division said at FOSE.
DHS official: Government can't solve cybersecurity alone
U.S. software-makers are improving the security of their products, but the country’s cyber infrastructure is still far from secure, according to comments by Homeland Security Department's Richard Marshall.
15 companies take home GCN Best of FOSE awards
The winners of this year's Best of FOSE Awards, recognizing outstanding and innovative products on display at the show, include groundbreaking innovators.
WordPerfect X5 makes entrance at FOSE
Corel announces WordPerfect Office X5 at the FOSE trade show.
Social media likely coming to Vets health portal
Veterans Affairs officials plan to add social-media style tools to the portal veterans use to access health records, a VA officials said today at the 2010 FOSE conference.
DOD still struggling with best approach to social media
Jack Holt of the Defense Department's Defense Media Activity says a clear doctrine for social media use is needed.
Agencies walk a tightrope between cost savings and innovation
Civilian agencies and military services take different paths to making technology investment decisions.
Local police falling behind on cybercrime, former chief says
Bill Bratton, former chief of the Los Angeles and New York City police departments, said police departments have the knowledge, but lack the resources to attack cybercrime.
Eight security products take home GovSec Awards
Over at the GovSec conference, running concurrently with FOSE at the Washington Convention Center, Security Products magazine today announced the winners of its GovSec Awards, which honors outstanding products being exhibited at GovSec.
FOSE kick-off: The future of police work and the media
FOSE kicks off with keynotes from a CSI creator and a former police chief of Los Angeles.
Report: Systems engineer is best IT job
San Francisco-based research and analysis group, Focus, has named systems engineer as the "best job in America."
NIST creating tools to test health IT products
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is taking on an IT product testing role related to the distribution of $17 billion in economic stimulus funds for health IT.
Financial Systems Integration Office is closing its doors
FSIO has met its goals of creating business process and data standards, OMB says.
Live from FOSE: Tweets from the show floor and conference sessions
Not at FOSE? Get an inside look at the technology, the conference sessions and the action on the floor by watching the Twitter talk. It's the next best thing to being there.
Follow me to F O S and E – and say hello
The GCN Lab staff abandons its cave to go looking for the best new technology being introduced at FOSE.
How can we be at cyberwar if we don't know what it is?
Before plunging into a Cold-War style cyber arms race with our online enemies, the United States needs to decide just exactly what cyberwar is, who should fight it and how to do it.
Google offers tool to ditch Microsoft Exchange
Google announced the "Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange" tool, designed to make it easier for IT departments to abandon Exchange for Google Apps.
DHS releases new details on Einstein 3 intrusion prevention pilot
The Homeland Security Department plans to use another agency and an Internet Service Provider to test capabilities and processes for its planned next generation network security program.
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