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RSS federalSeven Practical Steps for Federal Cyber Security and FISMA Compliance
White Paper The number of security breaches of federal information systems and cases of improper access to these systems continues to grow at an alarming rate. In fact, federal civilian agencies reported three times... [05 Oct 2009]
FISMA: Securing Federal Systems and Data With Tripwire
White Paper Recognizing the importance of securing federal systems and data, Congress passed the Federal Information Security Management Act (FIMSA) in 2002. The act requires federal agencies... [05 Oct 2009]
FISMA: Achieving and Maintaining Compliance to Ensure Security of Systems and Data
White Paper This paper is intended to show how Tripwire Enterprise can continue to help federal agencies, as well as the organizations that store, process or transmit federal information, and the contractors that do... [05 Oct 2009]
Securing Personally Identifiable Information
White Paper Federal government departments, state offices, and industry organizations have enacted tough legislation to force organizations to safeguard PII, but publicly-disclosed data breaches still occur on a daily basis. [05 Oct 2009]
Achieving Federal Desktop Core Configuration Compliance (FDCC) with Lumension® Solutions
White Paper The Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) is an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) mandated security configuration set applicable within United States Federal Government agencies. All... [02 Oct 2009]
A Bill of Lading Solution for the Trucking Industry
White Paper To ensure shipments move on schedule and that they are accompanied by all the paperwork mandated by federal requirements, LDSS and MFDs work together, eliminating delays, ensuring up-to the-minute accuracy and... [02 Oct 2009]
Report on Application Security for the Federal Industry
White Paper Businesses in every industry are affected by web application security - even at the federal level. Rsignia has 20 years of experience in the federal industry and they will share examples of recent issues... [01 Oct 2009]
Vivek Kundra
AS Profile Kundra is the man charged with using technology to transform the way the US is governed. Five months into the job and Kundra aims to get official agencies to share more information between themselves and with the public. [30 Sep 2009]
Microsoft wins U-turn in $388m lawsuit
News A federal court on Tuesday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product activation technology infringed on a patent held by Uniloc, overturning a $388m verdict in the case. Microsoft initially won a summary... [30 Sep 2009]
Google: Apple rejected Google Voice for iPhone
News Google told the Federal Communications Commission in a redacted letter to the agency a few weeks ago that Apple did in fact reject its Google Voice application from the App Store. Google dropped its request for... [21 Sep 2009]
US Census Bureau Counts on SAS
White Paper The challenge was to slice, dice and merge a billion census records into valuable knowledge that will help determine congressional districts and the distribution of federal funds. Census Bureau employees and their sworn... [19 Sep 2009]
White House looks to the cloud for IT cost-cutting
News Speaking at Nasa's Ames Research Center in California, federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the administration's first formal efforts to roll out a broad system designed to take advantage of existing infrastructure and, in... [17 Sep 2009]
Federal Server Core Configuration (FSCC): A High-Level Overview of the Value and Benefits of Deploying a Single, Standard, Enterprise-Wide Managed Server Environment
White Paper It began as a follow-on project to the USAF's pioneering work on desktop standardization that grew into Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC). Microsoft Federal, at the request of several other... [16 Sep 2009]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News Albert Gonzalez, a former federal government informant and the alleged ringleader of one of the largest known identity theft cases in US history, pleaded guilty in Boston to 19 counts of conspiracy, computer fraud, wire... [14 Sep 2009]
Judge upholds Microsoft infringement of date-picker patent
News A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed a lower court ruling that Microsoft infringed on a patent owned by Alcatel-Lucent but said the jury award of $358m in damages was excessive. The US Court of Appeals for the... [14 Sep 2009]
