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The Defense Strategies Institute will host its Cloud Tech and Government IT Summit in a little over a month. The summit will run on September 23rd and 24th at the Mary M. Gates Learning Center in Alexandria, Virginia. The Defense Strategies Institute will offer training and educational seminars in a Town Hall format. DSI says federal agency leaders and innovators in cloud computing will join Industry experts for interactive speeches and debates. The overall focus of the summit is acquiring and securing cloud technology for civilian federal agencies and the DoD. DSI says it will also take a deep dive into IT modernization plans, data center consolidations, and IT infrastructure diversification. You can still register to attend the summit and active duty military and government employees can attend for free.
August 07, 2014 -
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As the body of an American General arrives back in the U.S. after being killed in Afghanistan. Afghan officials say that the soldier who killed General Harold Green came from a part of Afghanistan with a long history of Haqqani network fighters living there. The Haqqani network has strong links to the Taliban and has carried out significant attacks against U.S. forces.
August 07, 2014 -
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As a federal marketer looking to communicate with key government decision-makers, are you using Twitter as part of your digital marketing strategy?
August 06, 2014 -
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ViON Corporation President and CEO, Tom Frana talks to Kevin Reid, CEO and CTO of Virtustream about the cloud.
August 06, 2014 -
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The reality of losing an American general in Afghanistan is setting in. "Even our generals are out there, many of whom have served many tours of duty both in Afghanistan and Iraq, leading America's sons and daughters, and that's something we should all think about from time to time," says RET. Army LT. General Harold Swan. Army MAJ. Harold Greene was killed in an insider attack yesterday in Kabul City, Afghanistan.
August 06, 2014 -
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Quite a number of insider threat incidents have happened because basic security principles were absent, overlooked or ignored. Why Jim Henderson says it's time we get back to the basics.
August 05, 2014 -
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ViON Corporation President and CEO, Tom Frana talks to Steve Picot, VP of Federal Sales for ViON about the Federal Cloud market and the role of the Private and Hybrid Cloud.
August 05, 2014 -
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Main Video Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Listen to the full show. The Data center has become the focal point for several IT initiatives and trends. The consolidation initiative may be reducing the number…
August 05, 2014 -
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Fighters from the Islamic State seized control of Iraq's biggest dam, an oilfield and three more towns over the weekend. This puts a major terror tool under their control. Water is essential for life and it being withheld could be used against the residents of the towns that were captured. On the other hand, worse control of the damn could be used to unleash flooding.
August 05, 2014 -
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Main Video Segment 1 Segment 2 Segment 3 Listen to the full show. One way of looking at information technology is in terms of what an IT shop delivers. Users look to IT as where…
August 04, 2014 -
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With 50 billion devices connected to the Internet, the rules of cybersecurity are changing. Agencies and more companies are on to the importance of cybersecurity, but they might be watching out for high-profile threats rather than more common and stealthy problems that can do lots of damage. That's what Cisco has found and will release in a report. Levi Gundert is the technical lead for Cisco's Threat Research, Analysis and Communications, or TRAC. He spoke with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive.
August 04, 2014 -
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President Barack Obama says the U.S. is limited in what it can do to deter Russia's actions in Ukraine because Russia and President Vladimir Putin are ignoring their long-term interests. He says, "people don't always act rationally," and he also says that people don't act based on their own interests.
August 04, 2014 -
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Federal websites will have to become more secure if Congress gets its way. Under a bill recently passed by the House, any new federal websites that collect personally identifiable information will need to be deemed secure by the agency's chief information officer before they go live to the public.
August 04, 2014 -
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Trying to beat the clock, a Japanese nonprofit organization is scouring a New York military museum's World War II records for information they hope will lead to the graves of American servicemen still listed as missing in action on Saipan. The reason for the hurry is that a developer plans to begin construction in the fall on a condominium complex near the beach where scores of Americans were killed on July 7, 1944, during Japan's largest mass suicide attack of the war.
August 01, 2014
