Jason Miller, Executive Editor for FederalNewsRadio, write in his article, “Agencies to justify not using cloud computing to OMB” that OMB “will require agencies to develop an alternative analysis discussing how they could use cloud computing for all major technology projects for the fiscal 2012 budget.” This is according to an internal budget documents [...]
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The US Cyber Command has been an interesting story to watch. Similar to the old Charlie Brown comic strips where he continuously tried kicking the football only to have Lucy pull it away at the last minute. Now Ellen Nakashima, from the Washington Post, is reporting that “Pentagon computer-network defense command delayed by [...]
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Posted in Aneesh Chopra, CCE, CPE, CVE, CVSS, Cloud Computing, IDS, Management, Metrics, NCP, NIST, OVAL, Policies, Risk, SCAP, Vulnerability, XCCDF on Aug 9th, 2009
“While the NSA has a great red-team (think pen-test) capability, they had a major change of heart and realized, like the rest of the security world (*cough* Ranum *cough*), that while attacking is fun, it isn’t very productive at defending your systems – there is much more work to be done for the defenders, and [...]
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