CGI Helps Develop Mobile Authentication for Federal Agencies; James Pyon Comments
CGI Group, Akamai Technologies Inc. and Daon Inc. have launched a multi-factor mobile authentication-as-a-service designed to help secure transactions of federal employees and avoid network compromise. The MAaaS solution integrates Daon’s IdentityX authentication into Akamai’s platform to allow federal agencies to secure various mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops at the application level [...]
More than a third of federal managers believe they are moving in the right direction in implementing big data within their organizations, a survey from Booz Allen Hamilton and the Government Business Council says. Booz Allen released the survey results Tuesday, saying 37 percent of respondents are confident in their current big data trajectory and [...]
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General Dynamics IT to Leverage Gravitant Cloud Offerings; Mohammed Farooq Comments
March 27, 2013 No Comment
General Dynamics Information Technology will utilize Gravitant Inc.’s new cloud services brokerage and management platform to support its new offerings intended to help government customers adopt secure and low-cost hybrid cloud computing. The cloudMatrix offering will help General Dynamics deploy cloud services brokerage offerings to state and local governments and federal agencies, according to a Gravitant statement. Mohammed [...]
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The General Services Administration will begin approving security certification applications from private cloud solutions providers, the agency announced Wednesday. Federal agencies will assess security of cloud products and services through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. GSA said the program is intended to eliminate duplication, generate savings and correlate with the government’s [...]
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will eventually use continuous identity verification instead of passwords, GCN reports. DARPA announced the move in a broad agency announcement solicitation in January last year. Proposals for the agency’s Active Authentication program were due March 6. Desktops with constant high activity do not have the technology to determine if [...]
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The Government Accountability Office released a report Monday outlining potential dangers of improper disposal of computers and other electronics. The report recommended the White House Council on Environmental Quality, General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget draft a policy for electronic waste disposal. The report said the government disposes of around 10,000 [...]
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Report Finds Agencies to See More Productivity with Mobility; Aileen Black Comments
March 14, 2012 No CommentGovernment agencies could see an increase of productivity and cost savings as a result of mobility, according to a recent survey of federal information technology professionals and chief information officers. MeriTalk, VMware and Carahsoft issued their “Mobile Powered Government” report Feb. 27, where the companies surveyed 152 federal CIOs and IT professionals. The companies intended [...]
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Agencies are increasingly implementing policies to allow employees to bring their own mobile devices to work, according to a CDW Government report. CDW surveyed 414 federal employees and information staff and found that about 62 percent of federal agencies have policies in place for employees to bring their own devices. According to CDW, 89 percent [...]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has moved its email system to cloud-based Google Apps for Government, Google announced Wednesday. Kennith Jackson, deployment manager at Google Apps, wrote in a blog post that it took six months to move NOAA’s 25,000 employees, contractors and associates to the new email platform. NOAA CIO Joseph Klimavicz said [...]
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is working to develop a dashboard to help assess and aid with moving health records to the digital realm. In a Dec. 21 announcement, ONC said the dashboard will create datasets used to assess, improve and publicize performance information regarding ONC health IT grants given to [...]
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