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EPA Doesn’t Know How Much It Uses the Cloud, IG Finds
The agency says it has 11 cloud contracts, but the IG doubts that number.
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Amazon’s Cloud Price War With Google Is Starting to Hurt
Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud-computing business, is now mature enough to affect Amazon’s overall numbers.
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Cloud Computing Stymies Digital Forensics Investigations
Investigators sift through bits and bytes to solve crimes, but cloud presents challenges
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State's passport and visa system crashes
Problems with the Consular Consolidated Database could strand thousands of people waiting for documents around the globe.
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FBI plans Amazon cloud for developers
The FBI is looking for an unclassified system that conforms to the FISMA-moderate security level.
Modernization
iPhones Have a Major Security Hole That Apple Installed on Purpose
If you use an iPhone or iPad, your photos, web history, and GPS logs are vulnerable to theft and surveillance via back-door protocols running on all iOS devices.
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Airport security, health IT, cyber-collaboration and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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Security checks, Moore's law, spectrum sharing and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
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The dirty truth about missing emails
While many agencies have been developing and adopting strategies to manage their records electronically, the IRS scandal has revealed a gaping chasm between policy and implementation.
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DeSalvo: Time for the heavy lifting on health record interoperability
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is pushing for a road map "specific enough that people will know what they're supposed to do when."
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Need to Know Memo: Finding Savings in the Cloud
New Need to Know Memo explores the implications of cloud computing, data center consolidation, virtualization, remote access and infrastructure diversification.
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Interior gets green light for Drupal consolidation initiative
The Interior Department is consolidating nine content management platforms into one, built with open source software.
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What, exactly, does a cloud broker do?
The role cloud brokers play in government IT remains largely undefined, but Microsoft's Susie Adams says the game is changing quickly.
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Schedule 70 cloud listing could shower benefits
Procurement experts are enthusiastic about adding a separate cloud services category to the venerable contracting vehicle.
Digital Government
IT Disruptions 3 Times More Likely at Agencies with Complex Networks
Cloud services, virtualization and BYOD could be to blame.
Digital Government
This Software Guy Accidentally Designed an App That Is Saving my Dyslexic Son
The text-to-speech app allows people to read during times they normally couldn’t.
Cybersecurity
Why a Detection-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity is the Wrong Path for Federal
While detection is a key aspect of any complete program, a logical approach shows prevention is always preferred.
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Gibson: VA pursuing schedule fix on multiple tracks
The VA hopes to have a quick patch for scheduling software in place as it pursues a new system.
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DHS could get a bit more social
Bill would open up DHS social media workgroup to more private-sector input.
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