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The Defense Information Systems Agency created a Defense-wide directory of email addresses in support of their enterprise email system. But the real value in the listing of every military and civilian employee, contractor and retiree email address may be in securing information in a new way through the use of access based identity management. NIST is testing how to best use secure identity cards in the cloud.
January 26, 2012 -
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When the DISA cloud was hit with e-mail bringing in malware, cyber officials quickly squashed it.
January 18, 2012 -
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DoD dollars are coming down, and cyber threats are rising. The Defense Information Systems Agency says the enterprise services it\'s trying to build for the entire military are one answer to both problems.
January 18, 2012 -
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Request for information covers maintenance of all joint staff networks and applications, and ensuring the network is secure through risk management mitigation, network vulnerability analysis and security auditing.
January 05, 2012 -
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House and Senate negotiators who hammered out an agreement for the 2012 defense authorization bill added language that puts the brakes on the Army\'s transition to an enterprise email effort. The language adds several requirements the Army and DoD must meet before moving forward with the project.
December 13, 2011 -
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DISA wants improve its enterprise information visibility for the department\'s 15,000 unclassified networks by creating an Enterprise Information Web. The semantic Web will allow data to be more easily shared and reused across the department.
November 30, 2011 -
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The Pentagon faces an uphill climb in getting ready for an audit of its consolidated financial statements by 2017, outside experts said Thursday. Nonetheless, the goal is achievable if the push is sustained by future secretaries of Defense.
November 18, 2011 -
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The Defense Information Systems Agency\'s website had been offline since Saturday. Agency officials blamed a hardware problem.
November 16, 2011 -
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NATO and its members say a network they constructed to tie together the national networks of the various militaries operating in Afghanistan is a success story — except for the fact that the network took eight years to get up and running. But U.S. Defense officials said they have a better understanding for future coalition operations for how best to build such a network.
November 14, 2011 -
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The complex in Ft. Meade, Md., received the second-highest environmental building certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
November 01, 2011 -
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Maj. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins Jr., Hawkins, who currently serves as deputy director for command, control, communications and computer systems for the Joint Staff, will take over for current DISA director Lt. Gen. Carroll Pollett.
October 31, 2011 -
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Military services and agencies, alike, are under pressure from senior defense officials to find savings from IT Rob Carey, DoD's deputy CIO said at the annual Executive Leadership Conference. In the coming weeks, Defense CIO Teri Takai will issue a memo detailing a new strategy for bringing existing consolidation and standardization efforts together. The budget pressures have helped push the department out in front of emerging cyber and mobile technologies.
October 25, 2011 -
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\"Data volumes are exploding. Budgets are shrinking. Join this discussion and learn how federal agencies are storing more, yet spending less on storage. If you need to cut your IT budget, doesn\'t it make sense to start with one of your biggest line items? Tune in as our panelists present real examples that show how agencies are containing large volumes while capturing savings—with storage that\'s faster, easier to manage, and more secure. Find out the keys to storage efficiency: buying less hardware, eliminating redundant data, streamlining backup/recovery, avoiding network or bandwidth upgrades, and reducing everyday operating costs.\"
September 27, 2011 -
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The Army has begun moving users of DoD\'s secret IP network to a more secure, two-factor PKI authentication system. It\'s one of several measures the service says it\'s taking to better use trusted identities on DoD networks.
August 24, 2011
