OWASP Passfault improves on password strength and password policies. [...]
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Mobile devices are exploding onto the IT scene. They seem to be available for every possible application as we move from traditional work on a desktop computer to laptops, tablets and smart phones. As we begin to make this transition, there seems to be a lot of discussion and difference of opinion on how to develop [...] Shortly after the first web search engine appeared in 1993, Partnet began investigating the use of the Internet to help engineers locate parts they needed for designs. The results of this investigation were the basis for the most valuable single software patent in history. Partnet sold the patent but Partnet SearchExec™, under agreement with the license [...] To the young ones among us, it may seem like search engines and the Internet have been around forever, but it really it has only been about 20 years. According to Wikipedia, the first tool for searching the Internet, created in 1990, was called “Archie”. It downloaded directory listings of all files located on public anonymous FTP [...] In 2009, the Ways and Means committee put forth the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act or HITECH Act. The bill states that Health information technology helps save lives and lower costs. One of the four major goals of the legislation is to “Strengthening Federal privacy and security law to protect identifiable health [...] Increased security seems to be on the mind of everyone this year. The President made promises to increase Cybersecurity in his State of the Union Address. President Obama’s budget calls for the strengthening of government cybersecurity while reducing overall information technology spending by more than a half-billion dollars. The document provides a roadmap to the administration’s [...] In my last blog, I talked about how Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) created an Open Technical dictionary based on the federal catalog system. This technical ontology can be used to describe items that you make, or that you buy. The question now becomes—why do should we care. What do I get out of data [...] In 1999, the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) was founded as an international not for profit membership association with a mission to research, develop and promote better quality data for use in electronic commerce. Soon after formation, ECCMA director Peter Benson discovered that the Department of Defense had been doing data standardization work to support military [...] As with all of government, the Department of Defense is facing slimmer budgets and looking at ways to save money. Basically as Ashton Carter, Deputy Secretary, Department of Defense, put it: “To do more, without more.” In December 2010, John Young, a senior fellow at Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and a former U.S. undersecretary of defense [...] There has been an ongoing discussion in Linked-In about why some procurement saving initiatives or strategic sourcing plans fail to realize the savings they are projected to have. The comments to the questions have revealed a few likely reasons so many projects fail. I work primarily with government agency buying groups, but the following comments pertain [...] |
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