Tag Archive for: department

Defense Department needs to embrace open source or military will lose tech superiority

/in

The Department of Defense needs to move past open source myths that have been debunked and jump on the open source bandwagon or the DoD and U.S. military will not be able to maintain tech superiority, warns a Center for a New American Security (CNAS) report.

To maintain technological superiority, the DoD needs “to acquire, develop, deploy, and maintain cutting-edge software” systems. “Unless the department is able to accelerate how it procures, builds, and delivers software, it will be left behind,” said the authors of “Open Source Software and the Department of Defense” (pdf).

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Network World Security

State Department emphasizes ‘ongoing’ Chinese espionage – Washington Examiner

/in

USNI News

State Department emphasizes 'ongoing' Chinese espionage
Washington Examiner
"While media reporting has emphasized this alleged decrease in malicious activity, cases of Chinese espionage campaigns against the U.S. private sector are ongoing," according to the document issued by the Overseas Security Advisory Council, a State …
Chinese economic cyber-espionage is diminishing, says US officialReuters

all 21 news articles »

Espionage China – read more

Gartner: Colin Powell says he used insecure email during State Department tenure; Oh and we should vote out Congress

/in

National Harbor, Md. — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged using insecure email during his tenure at the State Department – but as a way to create more immediate communication among those within and outside the department.

During his keynote address at Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit he told the 3,400 in attendance that he had two computers on his desk, one the official secure computer – “clunky and difficult to use” – and the other a laptop with a phone line and modem that he used exclusively for his AOL account.

+More on Network World: Gartner: ‘Insider threat is alive and well on the dark Web’+

To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Network World Tim Greene

DARPA’s Plan X Gives Military Operators a Place to Wage Cyber Warfare – Department of Defense

/in

Department of Defense

DARPA's Plan X Gives Military Operators a Place to Wage Cyber Warfare
Department of Defense
WASHINGTON, May 12, 2016 — Since 2013, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Plan X cyber warfare program engineers have done the foundational work they knew it would take to create for the first time a common operating picture for …

cyber warfare – read more