HP Wins $36M to Migrate 600,000 at VA to Microsoft 365 Cloud Email; Charles De Sanno Comments
The Veterans Affairs Department announced on November 13 that they will transfer 600,000 personnel to the cloud using Microsoft Office 365 for Government, according to a GCN report. HP Enterprise Services was awarded a $36 million contract for 5 years under the VA’s transformation twenty-one total technology (VA T4) program. Charles De Sanno, VA’s executive [...]
In case you missed the 60 Minute Segment this past weekend, below is a recap of the troubling information presented. The segment highlighted recent cyber attacks and looked at what the US is doing to move cyber security forward. It also included expert commentary from Mike McConnell, former DNI and presently at Booz Allen Hamilton, [...]
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According to research conducted by the analytic firm Input, government spending on cyber security will increase at a compound rate of 8.1 percent between 2009 and 2014. Funding for contracted work will increase $3.8 billion from 2009 to 2014. Government spending on general IT products and services will also increase by 3.5 percent for the [...]
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National Cyber Security Awareness Month kicked off on Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC. The event, sponsored by The National Cyber Security Alliance and endorsed by close to 100 organizations (including The New New Internet), brought in notable speakers, particularly the secretary of DHS, Janet Napolitano and Chris Painter of the White [...]
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At the ArcSight Protect 09 conference, keynote speaker Melissa Hathaway, former acting senior director for cyberspace at the White House, pointed to her belief that the federal government is moving in the right direction for securing cyberspace. However, she highlighted that currently the nation is not where it should be in terms of protecting cyberspace, [...]
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Melissa Hathaway, Rod Beckstrom and Paul Kurtz are the forerunners in the race to be the U.S. government’s first “cyber czar.” Don Adams, the Palo Alto-based chief technology officer, Worldwide, Public Sector for tech giant Tibco, said in a statement. The Obama administration’s information security chief (a job title that still needs to be confirmed) will [...]
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