Mike Bradshaw, director of Google’s federal services, is excited about the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification for the company’s “Google Apps for Government” cloud computing services, which happened earlier this week. After meeting primary federal IT security measures, Google was certified for passing the security controls under FISMA and, now, a full suite [...]
Google has announced that it has received the first Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) certification for its Google Apps government cloud computing services, making it the largest contender in the federal adoption of the cloud. During an interview with Federal News Radio, Google Business Development Executive David Mihalchik explained that Google is now certified [...]
What’s ahead on the technology front for government and industry? The answer depends on who you’re talking to. So when we set out to showcase our annual roundup of CTO perspectives, we went knocking on both sides of the aisle. From the ranks of some of the area’s government contracting firms, to the halls of [...]
Government Health IT reports that Vish Sankaran, director of the Federal Health Architecture (FHA) program and one of ExecutiveBiz’s Top 10 Health IT Game Changers in 2009, will leave the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). As program director of federal health architecture at the Department of Health and Human Services’s Office [...]
Writing on the Chief Information Officers Council Blog, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra explained the new FISMA guidance released by the federal government. CIO Kundra writes that the new guidance shifts federal focus “away from old-styled, paper-based reports to real-time electronic data that feed directly and immediately into security monitoring and alert systems. This change means [...]
Not only does DynCorp provide critical military infrastructure, they provide the human fuel. An army marches on its stomach, and Bill Ballhaus and DynCorp will take on the Taliban by feeding and clothing a swelling number of U.S. troops in volatile Southern Afghanistan. This week saw the deadliest combat in the region since the Taliban was toppled in [...]
The post-9-11 world requires a different approach to cybersecurity — we all know that. Knowing what to do about it is the hard part. That’s where Dan Chenok comes in. By day, Chenok is a senior vice president and general manager at Pragmatics, Inc. Chenok has also served on several prominent boards, including the Technology [...]
