Report: China Probing Soft Cyber Underbelly

December 13, 2009 by ADMIN · Leave a Comment

By Tom Groenfeldt, Technology Journalist - Contributor at CIOZone

In China today, there are thousands of people in a sustained effort to collect intelligence, many of them on an entrepreneurial basis within a competing bureaucratic structure. China understands that a strategic vulnerability of the United States is its soft cyber underbelly. I believe they seek to ‘own’ that space, says Mike McConnell, former director of National Intelligence and director of the NSA.

The New Economics of Cloud Computing

October 20, 2009 by ADMIN · 1 Comment

By Kevin L. Jackson, Vice President at Dataline

Gwen Morton and Ted Alford have published an excellent economic evaluation of the federal government’s push into cloud computing. Their conclusions acknowledge the value of cloud computing, but also offers some practical considerations.