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NAPA Shows How the Government is Using Web 2.0

2008-07-16 20:45:37 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...government workers that 65% of government IT workers surveyed said that Web 2.0 tools are important to their operations. The overall message was that all IT, government included, have too many projects they could be taking on for the amount of resources they have. For much of the IT topics we covered in the survey, importance was high but...
 
Tags: web, government, web page, government web, collaboration, mass collaboration, collaboration project seeks, government employees, enhance government transparency
 
 
 
 
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US Government planning to spend 10% of its IT budget on cyber-security by 2009.

2008-02-25 13:59:58 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...government has increased its cyber-security budget by a whopping 73% since 2004. The media has picked up on things such as DOT (Department of Transportation) more than doubling its budget while DHS (Department of Homeland Security) had less than a 5% increase, they dont have their priorities right or that we should fund federal agencies based...
 
Tags: cyber-security, budget, cyber-security budget, security, government, measure security, security budgets, mature security postures, government infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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On Government Employees, Culture, and Survivability

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2008-07-21 13:46:05 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...government employees, even more so because its an election year: theyre survivors Now time for what I see is the real reason why the government is doing badly (if thats what you believeopinions differ) at security: its all an issue of culture. I have a friend who converted a year ago to a GS-scale employee and took a class on what motivates...
 
Tags: government, government employees, government security, culture, government culture, security, typical government employee, promote security, silent culture
 
 
 
 
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Transparency in Government: Just Give us the Data!

2008-06-02 20:34:54 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
 
...government releasing the raw data . It makes the security geek in me cringe because well, most of the data that the government has is PII, and I know that the typical government reaction is to say not only no, but h*ll no!! I mean, after all, most of our goal in the Government is to keep the data from reaching the citizens and...
 
Tags: data, government, raw data, government data, typical government reaction, data sets, transparent government, data presentation, government loses control
 
 
 
 
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DMCA Does Not Apply to U.S. Government

2008-08-08 11:32:17 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...government is not: he Court of Federal Claims that first heard the case threw it out, and the new Appellate ruling upholds that decision. The reasoning behind the decisions focuses on the US government's sovereign immunity, which the court describes thusly: "The United States, as [a] sovereign, 'is immune from suit save as it consents to be...
 
Tags: government, dmca, government retains, court, court define, government employee, sovereign, sovereign immunity, immunity
 
 
 
 
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Use Cases for Identity Management in E-Government

2008-05-22 06:22:47 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy
 
...government provides a special and complex use case for identity management systems, first because the needs of some parts of the government (such as law enforcement and national security) are often at odds with the service-oriented aspects of government, and second because of the unique role government plays in the life of the citizen. The...
 
Tags: e-government, government, identity management systems, zealand implementation differs, zealand, history strongly affect, identity management system, law enforcement, authors discuss
 
 
 
 
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NSA Monitoring U.S. Government Internet Traffic

2008-02-04 06:30:10 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...government's computer systems against attacks by foreign adversaries and other intruders. It will cost billions of dollars, which the White House is expected to request in its fiscal 2009 budget Under the initiative, the NSA, CIA and the FBI's Cyber Division will investigate intrusions by monitoring Internet activity and, in some cases,...
 
Tags: government, nsa, detect attacks, attacks, domestic government traffic, plan attacks, white house officials, white house, data
 
 
 
 
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Web 2.0 Adoption by the Federal Government Shouldnt be a Surprise

2008-06-24 11:33:34 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...government . With half my mouth numb from being shot up with anesthetics, I decided this was the perfect time to do a blog post on this Back at the FOSE show in April , we conducted a survey and one of the questions asked was about Web 2.0 usage. Honestly, we expected low adoption of these kinds of collaborative and often very public...
 
Tags: government, federal government, adoption, government cio summit, web, tools, public communications tools, federal, government agency management
 
 
 
 
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The NSA Teams Up with the Chinese Government to Limit Internet Anonymity

2008-09-18 06:34:11 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous The U.S. National Security Agency is also participating in the "IP Traceback" drafting group, named Q6/17, which is meeting next week in Geneva to work on the traceback proposal. Members of...
 
Tags: government, chinese government, chinese, articles, negative articles, government publishes articles, source, proposal, original source