NSA’s Accumulo Big Data Platform Testing Commercial Waters
Accumulo, a big data storage software program developed by the National Security Agency, could soon be sold on the commercial market as a company owned by NSA technologists has partnered with Hadoop to take the program to market. According to InformationWeek, Sqrrl has raised $2 million in venture funding and the NSA submitted Accumulo to [...]
MarkLogic recently held its annual Government Summit, included more than 350 government and industry decision maker attendees who explored big data solutions. Amidst panels and discussions was the official launch of the MarkLogic Public Sector Twitter handle, @MarkLogicPubSec and the MarkLogic Public Sector Facebook page. “This year’s MarkLogic Government Summit gave public sector professionals an [...]
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Cloud computing may be more secure than the traditional client-server approach, the CIA’s chief technology officer said Tuesday. During an Amazon Web Services conference in Washington, Gus Hunt said the cloud provides the ability to reimage or remove all software from one server and get it all up and running quickly on another server in [...]
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Charles Phalen, Jr. Appointed VP of Northrop Grumman Corporate and Enterprise Shared Services Industrial Security
September 12, 2011 No CommentNorthrop Grumman Corporation has appointed Charles S. Phalen, Jr. vice president, Corporate and Enterprise Shared Services Industrial Security, effective immediately. According to Northrop Grumman, Phalen will report to Gloria Flach, corporate vice president and president, Enterprise Shared Services. He is replacing Ed Halibozek who retired from the company. “I am pleased to welcome Charles Phalen [...]
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Cyber war is an imminent threat, the former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center Cofer Black said yesterday during his keynote speech at the Black Hat Security Conference in Las Vegas. The counterterrorism official who raised the alarm that a major terrorist attack was coming before 9/11 warned conference attendees of the parallels he sees [...]
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In light of recent cyber attacks against government agencies and affiliations, the Department of Homeland Security released a statement warning organizations to keep alert for potential cyber attacks from hacktivist groups Anonymous and LulzSec. The bulletin, which was released by DHS’ National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, aims to provide accurate situational awareness for federal organizations’ [...]
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According to a recent poll, more than half of Americans believe the United States should authorize cyber attacks against other countries when necessary. 60 Minutes and Vanity Fair questioned 1,045 Americans for their August poll and found not only was the majority aware of the current extent of cyber warfare, but it also supported the [...]
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Japanese video game maker Sega has become the latest victim of ubiquitous cyber attacks in which information belonging to 1.3 million customers was swiped, Reuters reports. In a statement released Sunday, Sega said names, birth dates, email addresses and encrypted passwords of Sega Pass online network members had been compromised; credit card numbers appear to [...]
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