ArcSight upgrades insider threat analysis tools
By Michael Arnone ArcSight, Inc., is scheduled to release three products on Nov. 1 that are designed to help information-security professionals thwart previously invisible threats, company officials said today.
TSA seeks technology to round up the usual suspects
<font color="CC0000"><b>Updated</b></font>The Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration has asked industry to suggest technologies for detecting suspicious behavior.
GSA selects Aquilent for FirstGov.gov refresh project
The General Services Administration has awarded Aquilent Inc. an $836,000 contract to provide services for the design and testing of the rebranded FirstGov.gov, the company said today.
GAO issues acquisition best practices framework
The Government Accountability Office has found that acquisition success depends on instituting best practices in four broad areas, including data management and security.
HHS proposes health IT exception to anti-kickback laws
The Health and Human Services Department wants physicians to be able to accept hardware, software and training from hospitals to encourage adoption of e-health records.
DHS site offers security tools, tips for software developers
The Homeland Security Department has launched a secure portal to provide best practices, tools and other resources for creating more reliable and secure software for developers and security professionals.
DOD signs enterprise software deal with Symantec
The Defense Department is offering its agencies access to more than 6,000 information assurance products and services.
Next version of Data Reference Model gets down to business
The working group applying the finishing touches to the latest version of the Data Reference Model says this edition will benefit from previous missteps.
The lowdown on networked multifunction printers
<b>What are they?</b> Networked multifunction printers offer workgroup print, copy, scan and fax features.
Please, no Swiss Army Knife clich's
Consolidation. It's a popular architecture strategy touted by government IT shops
Wireless nets get some help
Back when wireless networks were just starting to appear in government, the GCN Lab wrote a tutorial of 11 important steps for making a WLAN more secure.
Network security's one-way data street
Maintaining a highly secure network environment is paramount for the military as well as for civilian agencies working in intelligence or law enforcement.
Enterprise IM made easy
Instant messaging has been universally panned in the office environment as a waster of both time and resources.
FBI shooting for two-in-one security
The FBI's Los Angeles office plans to add a new access control appliance to the defenses of its West Coast networks.
Moving to IPv6: It will get worse before it gets better
Network administrators and managers are a practical lot. While listening to presentations at a recent workshop on why they should move their networks to IPv6, they were more interested in how to make the transition.
Internaut: Congress set to starve the IT beast
From hurricane relief to proposed limits on e-government spending, Congress is trying to reprioritize the way government IT dollars are spent.
GCN INSIDER: Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT
The latest buzz in the Web development world is AJAX, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (XML itself is short for Extensible Markup Language).
Speaking in Tongues
"Instead of managing code, in the future we'll be managing business processes,' promised Chris Fornecker, chief technology officer of the General Services Administration.
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Robert Gellman | @Info.Policy: The Copyright Office's congressional invitation
Did you notice the flap about the Copyright Office's Web site during the summer?
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