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.
Editor's Desk | ODF gains ground
The freedom to create and manage documents in the digital age has often meant living with a fundamental limitation: The information was chained to the application in which the documents were created.
Editor's Desk: Telework temptation
Telework has been one tough sell around Washington. That's not good news. Especially as something of a perfect workforce storm appears to be brewing just outside the Beltway.
VA not alone in letting data walk out the door
The recent theft of personal data on as many as 26.5 million veterans has sent government agencies a chilling message about the need to take new data security measures to prevent confidential data from being compromised or lost.
Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: VA's data spill
There is every reason to be disturbed by the Veterans Affairs Department's loss of personal data affecting as many as 26.5 million veterans. But most disturbing is how vulnerable other agencies are to the same kind of loss.
Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Formidable imprints
Two notable technology champions from opposite ends of the government IT world announced that they were stepping down. The first, with his declaration 20 years ago that 'the network is the computer,' helped shape the Internet revolution. The second helped forge a coalition that is laying the foundation for electronic health records.
John Chambers | The network shall rule them all
The life of a CEO is a demanding one, constantly jetting around the globe to soothe customers, partners and investors. So we were impressed when we showed up to meet Cisco Systems Inc.'s John Chambers'just before his keynote speech at the FOSE trade show'and he took time to pour us the beverage of our choice.
XBRL could make A-123 reports easier
Federal financial and IT executives risk falling behind their commercial-sector counterparts by being slow to develop the use of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) in their financial-reporting systems.
XRBL holds future promise for A-123 internal controls
Federal financial and IT executives risk falling behind their commercial-sector counterparts by being slow to develop the use of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XRBL) in their financial-reporting systems.
Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Pure serendipity
Technology breakthroughs are often not rooted in the invention of new devices as much as they are in the exploitation of new insights into the way people and processes work. All those white ear buds sprouting from commuters' ears offer one case in point.
EDITOR'S DESK: FISMA challenge
Last month's flogging of federal agencies by the House Government Reform Committee over network security weaknesses was a fresh reminder of the serious work that remains to be done'and how character-building the job of federal CIO has become.
Long-term IT spending outlook lowered
The mounting impact of consolidation, budget pressures and the Lines of Business initiatives are dampening growth rates projected for federal IT spending over the next five years, according to a new forecast released today.
EDITOR'S DESK: Sign of progress
The federal government's $64 billion portfolio of IT investments, proposed in the 2007 fiscal budget, reflects perhaps more than any budget before it the administration's efforts to make information technology a new-age utility.
EDITOR'S DESK: Hard target
The new year has barely begun and already agencies are feeling the pressure to meet the October deadline to roll out a new uniform identification system for federal employees and contractors.
EDITOR'S DESK: RIM reliance
Until recently, BlackBerry users would have found it unthinkable to live without the handy little devices'and the mobile access to the work world they engender.
Editor's Desk: Networks becoming criminal accessories
The assault on network systems by cyberintruders has become so unrelenting that most IT managers treat it as routine.
Justice CIO Hitch details agenda for fiscal 2006
The FBI's Sentinel Case Management system is one of many initiatives Vance Hitch and a staff of 350 IT employees are trying to push forward.
Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Time for innovation in first-responder comms
Innovation and government are words not often associated with one another. This edition of GCN offers some noteworthy exceptions.
Service-oriented components advance transformation
The government's vision for IT architecture that focuses more on citizen services than agency functions will become slightly clearer next week with the release of two new descriptive service components, said Dick Burk, the government's chief architect.
EDITOR'S DESK: Feds score one
Amid all the recent coverage of government failings, it was easy to miss one piece of promising news where federal IT officials out-managed many of their commercial-world counterparts.
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