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Government Computer News Current Issue
- A tale of 3 cities
COOP, COG and the alphabet of 9/11: How Arlington, Va., New York City and St. Louis changed their application of technology. - TWIC program hits another snag
Criticism holds up deployment of card readers for transportation worker IDs. - GSA, Interior mull shared-services pact
Merger could cut the price of PIV cards. - Tom Temin | Editor's Desk: How 9/11 recalls days of Sputnik
Sergei Korolev, I’ll bet, isn’t a name you can place. Yet this Soviet engineer’s work sparked a huge wave of fear and recrimination in the United States almost 50 years ago, equal in some ways to that caused by Osama bin Laden five years ago. - Mimi Browning | Executive Suite: Who has the IT advantage in the war on terror?
On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, we should consider seriously, but with a grain of salt, information technology’s role in making the world more or less safe against terrorism. - Technical Difficulties
- Adobe's big happy family
With Adobe Systems Inc.'s purchase of Macromedia Inc., tough choices between software offerings will have to be made. - People have the power, again
NASA has plenty of fascinating projects to lure helpers. - Itanium, the speedy encryptor
One emerging niche for Intel's Itanium line of microprocessors seems to be high-speed encryption and decryption. - Cisco WLAN makes secure
Cisco Systems Inc. earned NIST's Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 level 2 validation for its Unified Wireless LAN Controllers and Access Points. - Oracle’s Common Criteria
Oracle Corp.'s Application Server 10g received Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ certification. - RSA middleware and HSPD-12
RSA Security Inc. said its RSA Authentication Client middleware received NIST FIPS 201 validation. - Tumbleweed PKI certification
Tumbleweed Communications Corp. received Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 3 certification for its Tumbleweed Validation Authority suite. - Eng Lim Goh | SGI’s memory of the future
Last spring Eng Lim Goh, chief technical officer at Silicon Graphics Inc., surprised many at the annual High Performance Computing and Communications Conference when he focused on issues of computer memory (of all things) during his talk. - Intruder alert, intruder alert
The GCN Lab tests five intrusion prevention systems and finds them effective—with some tweaks. - McAfee IntruShield 2700
The IntruShield 2700 is a big-time IPS, with the highest throughout support of all the devices we tested, at 600 Mbps. - Juniper IDP 200
The IDP 200 from Juniper Networks is capable of protecting multiple networks at the same time. It takes up 2U of rack space and, at just 29 pounds, is a bit lighter than most rack-mounted devices.|GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice| - Cisco IPS 4240
The 250-Mbps Cisco IPS 4240 is a good, basic, self-managed IPS at a decent price. - How we tested intrusion prevention systems
In order to test devices designed to detect and block network intrusions, the GCN Lab needed something to mimic attacks. - eSoft ThreatWall 200
The ThreatWall 200 is a simple, all-in-one-box IPS solution. - ForeScout ActiveScout 100
The ActiveScout 100 is a self-managed IPS that protects your network without using signatures. - Do you even need an IPS?
Defense against network attacks is always a concern. However, the decision to deploy an intrusion prevention system depends on various factors. - VIRTUAL SPACE: Remembrances
- The Packet Rat | A Swiftian plan for security
OMB’s push for agencies to adopt Lines of Business and shared-services centers is gathering additional steam, and it looks like the efforts to create a Security LOB are off the back burner once again. - And another thing...
- Lee Hamilton | Good intentions don’t deliver progress
9/11 Personal Views—Lee Hamilton, vice chairman of the 9/11 commission, recalls exactly where he was on Sept. 11, 2001—sitting in an airplane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, bound for his home state of Indiana. - John Garing | Assured computing is DOD’s insurance policy
9/11 Personal Views—Protecting DOD’s networks is a lot like purchasing an insurance policy—you often don’t see the benefits until you need them. - Karen Evans | Communication concerns hit home
9/11 Personal Views—For Karen Evans, the need for communication, whether between and within agencies, among state and local governments, and, most importantly, within the family, was the primary lesson learned in the aftermath of Sept. 11. - FDNY Capt. Anthony Catalanotto | Better radio systems protect firefighters
9/11 Personal Views—New York firefighters better protect their city because the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, ignited a sense of urgency to strengthen their communications and better coordinate among firefighters, police and emergency management. - John Grimes | Barriers to info sharing remain
Interview with Defense Department CIO John Grimes. - Lt. Gen. Charles Croom | Crisis gave urgency to COOP plans
9/11 Personal Views—Since 9/11, Lt. Gen. Charles Croom has focused on emergency communications for senior leadership, continuity-of-operations plans, bringing more command and control capabilities to the Northern Command, and information-sharing between the major combatant commanders. - Next steps for technology
U.S. research-and-development efforts have pushed development forward. - The downside of counterterrorism technology
Research focuses on immediate results, but what about long-term understanding? - Steve Cooper | DHS’ first CIO joined government after attacks
9/11 Personal Views—The American journey took a sharp turn on 9/11. For Steve Cooper, the first CIO of the Homeland Security Department, that journey began with an unexpected sea cruise. - Zalmai Azmi | From New York City to Afghanistan to the FBI
The terrorist attacks in 2001 put many federal CIOs into the role of managing new systems developed for homeland security and law enforcement. - A clear message
As a firefighter at Ground Zero, and now with GSA, Michael Pena pushes for better emergency communications. - 9/11 Personal views
Government leaders reflect on 9/11 and the changes wrought by that fateful day five years ago.
