IT gets easier in the Big Easy
New Orleans' information technology department automates its business processes to improve operations in the wake of damage from Hurricane Katrina and massive staff cuts.
Shared identities
A federated approach to identity management lets users take their passwords and authentication with them, even across organizations. Here's how to get started.
Michael Daconta | Metadata: The stuff of web 2.0
Reality Check'commentary: The lesson to be learned from the rise of Web 2.0 metadata is that the value of data is not inherent in the data itself.
William Jackson | New threat in from cold
Cybereye'commentary: Researchers discover that chilling memory chips can defeat disk encryption.
Senate revisits FISMA
Clarified reporting requirements and better guidelines on complying with the law needed, lawmakers and experts say.
NTP soon to feature extra timeliness
IETF engineers sharpen the Network Time Protocol's granularity of time measurements, and make the time-synchronization standard compatible with IPv6.
Virtualization arrives at the application layer
If you've been making a move toward virtualization, applications are likely yournext frontier. The Lab puts three products that virtualize applications to the test.
Citrix Streaming Client
<b>GCN Lab Review:</b> Citrix's solution integrates well with the company's overall architecture, but it won't work if you don't already have the Citrix platform.
LANDesk Application Virtualization
<b>GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice:</b> LANDesk's Application Virtualization product was the least intrusive of all the solutions we tested while at the same time the most flexible.
Croom to step down
DISA director, Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Croom, will retire in July; vice director Navy Rear Adm. Elizabeth Hight will replace him.
Altiris Software Virtualization Solution
<b>GCN Lab Review:</b> Altiris' SVS provides a viable alternative to permanently installing applications or making older applications work with Windows Vista.
House questions NIST budget priorities
Lawmakers unhappy about increased spending at the expense of programs for commercialization of new IT to small manufacturing and high-tech companies.
Patches fix MS Office
Microsoft releases four critical security bulletins to resolve vulnerabilities in its Office software suite.
NOAA completes tsunami alert system
Two tsunami-detection buoys deployed this week near the Solomon Islands are the final links in a chain of stations to provide accurate tsunami warnings for Hawaii and the West Coast.
Mobile routing protocol advances
Naval Research Laboratory researchers are helping develop a set of routing protocols for setting up mobile ad-hoc networks.
NSA okays Sect'ra Edge smart phone
Government users in classified positions can now buy mobile device that offers secure access to government voice and data networks.
NIST releases PIV interface specs
Second draft of 'Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification' to be used with standard PIV card for government employees and contractors.
NSA extends access control to network storage
Effort involves integrating NSA's Flask mandatory access control architecture into the Network File System protocol widely used for network-attached storage devices.
D.C. upgrades special ed system
Overhaul slated for city's special education program, including the deployment of a special education data system and a pilot case management program.
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