GSA to seek smart card for Social Security
The General Services Administration will issue solicitations seeking smart-card services and devices next month on behalf of the Social Security Administration.
GAO rejects protest of DHS Eagle contract award
The Government Accountability Office earlier this month closed Indus Corp.'s bid protest over the Homeland Security Department's multibillion-dollar Eagle contract for IT services.
Defense BTA battles governance and culture
Thomas Modly, deputy undersecretary of Defense for financial management, surprised his audience at a recent conference when he claimed that intolerance is a desirable attribute for achieving business transformation.
Special Report | NIST's goal: Keep digital evidence fresh
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are known for sweating the nitty-gritty details of dull but vital standards for everything from bulletproof vests to medical measurement devices and IT encryption. And now, agency experts are bringing the same precision to computer forensics, fully aware that the final say lies in the notoriously low-tech realm of the judicial system.
An upgrade to the plumbing
HHS inspector general's office uses optimization tool to get its WAN up to speed.
Webroot anti-spyware comes to the gateway
Webroot Software Inc. began shipping a new software developer's kit for adding perimeter spyware protection to enterprise networks.
Metastorm BPM upgrade
Metastorm Inc. released Metastorm BPM 7, the latest version of its business process management suite.
Reliable routing at the edge
Juniper Networks Inc. took the wraps off its newest 10-gigabit, multiservice edge router.
Sun loves AMD
Sun Microsystems has introduced the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System, which can handle up to 10 four-socket blades with dual-core AMD Opteron processors.
Detecting insider threats
Austin Wells, vice president of marketing at Reston, Va.-based Digital Harbor Inc., was walking GCN through a hypothetical insider threat scenario.
App solves puzzles in NYC
We recently got word that the New York City Police Department had adopted a visualization program called Prochart from ABM America.
Sun's database appliance?
What to make of Sun Microsystems' new Sun Fire X4500, which the company debuted this month and calls a 'data server'?
Internaut | Problems won't wait for a cybersecurity czar
The absence of an assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications is becoming increasingly troublesome.
The future of authentication
If you want to know where authentication technology is going, take a look at what vendors are offering to the health care and financial-services industries.
Building the PIV team
HSPD-12 touches more than just IT.
Interoperability is an access problem
Any access-control system probably will have to work with a wide variety of applications, some of them off-the-shelf, some homegrown, some up-to-date and some legacies.
Security in numbers
Government is a major driver in the use of multifactor authentication, both in its regulations for the health care and banking industries and in its own applications. When it comes to controlling network access, agencies find two factors are better than one.
Federal Contract Law | Do government officials need extra legal help?
Three legal doctrines work together to shield the federal government from claims it has acted in bad faith. But, to put it bluntly, these presumptions define how much federal officials can get away with.
Editor's Desk | Live forensics
As more of the world's work'and opportunities for criminal activity'take place on networked computing systems, the need for computer forensics experts is growing exponentially.
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