In-Q-Tel Partnership to Put DHS, NGA Intel Data in Cloud, Alastair Mitchell Comments
September 13, 2012 No CommentIn-Q-Tel and London-based startup Huddle are partnering to put sensitive intelligence data from the Department of Homeland Security and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in a cloud infrastructure, Nextgov reports. Other undisclosed intelligence agencies are involved in the effort, Aliya Sternstein reports, citing a Huddle statement. This partnership follows a previous IQT announcement, where the intelligence [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want improved airport body scanners that can process images quicker and more precisely with “reduced probability of false alarm,” Wired reports. According to solicitation documents, the body scanners should be capable of real-time utilization of measurement techniques for faster acquisitions and enhanced signature [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration’s Science and Technology Directorate has issued a request for information and proposals on devices that can scan cargo for stowaways, NextGov reports. Aliya Sternstein writes that the TSA wants equipment that can examine containers, crates, and boxes that weigh more than 150 pounds. There are [...]
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Cyber attacks on companies maintaining U.S. critical infrastructure have multiplied over the past three years by more than 20 times, CNN reports. A recent Department of Homeland Security report says that 198 incidents were reported in 2011 compared to nine in 2009. Response teams for cyber emergencies deployed to the location of the attacks 17 [...]
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A recent audit found that Department of Homeland Security employees are not encrypting data regularly when using unauthorized devices on the agency’s network, Nextgov reports. Frank Deffer, DHS’ assistant inspector general for information technology audits, said in the report that growing dependence on commercial devices could lead to data becoming compromised. Devices such as GPS [...]
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Agencies in charge of national security and emergency preparedness programs should move mission-critical systems to cloud computing infrastructures, a White House advisory panel says, according to Fierce Government IT. In its report, the White House’s national security telecommunications advisory committee also said the Federal Risk Authorization Management Program should include more high-risk impact level systems. The [...]
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