Profile of William Jackson
Technology Writer
News & Commentary Posts: 29
William Jackson is writer with the <a href="http://www.techwritersbureau.com" target="_blank">Tech Writers Bureau</A>, with more than 35 years' experience reporting for daily, business and technical publications, including two decades covering information technology and cybersecurity in the federal government. You can read his column <a href="http://www.techwritersbureau.com/the-cybereye-column.html" target="_blank">The Cybereye</A>.
Articles by William Jackson
10/8/2014
The DHS contributes $23.5 million toward the Software Assurance Market Place to enable software developers to test open source programs and improve software analysis tools.
10/3/2014
Researchers spotted new ways to treat cancer when the National Institutes of Health enabled semantic searches of its huge Medline database of published medical articles.
10/3/2014
Government is slowly puzzling out how to extract knowledge from the most data it has ever had available to it.
7/22/2014
Proposal would require state's digital currency dealers to follow strict anti-money-laundering and consumer protection rules.
7/2/2014
Federal regulators are paying more attention to the growing use of bitcoin and other virtual online currencies. The GAO calls for more consumer protections.
6/25/2014
Supreme Court rules that Aereo's scheme for delivering broadcast TV over the Internet violates copyright law; legality of cloud storage and other services remains unresolved.
6/13/2014
In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler outlined principles for a market based approach.
6/6/2014
Government IT leaders struggle to incorporate cloud and mobility, bolster security amidst outdated government policies and budget constraints, says study.
6/4/2014
Recent GAO report finds that agencies lack consistent documented responses to cybersecurity incidents, recommends greater scrutiny of response plans.
5/30/2014
The Justice Dept. joins whistleblower lawsuit against CA, claiming company failed to provide government customers with discounts being given to commercial customers.
5/8/2014
A company accused by the FTC of failing to provide adequate data security has the right to know the required security standards, administrative judge rules.
4/22/2014
As cyber espionage grows quickly, government agencies become the No. 1 target, finds 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report.
4/21/2014
NIST's cyber-security framework gives critical-infrastructure operators a new tool to assess readiness. But will operators put this voluntary framework to work?
4/21/2014
Cross-industry standards could spur more affordable cyber security insurance.
4/11/2014
Justice Dept. and FTC confirm that sharing cybersecurity threat information is not an antitrust law violation.
4/10/2014
Congress hears arguments for and against Commerce Department plans to give up control of many Internet operations.
4/4/2014
NIST's new F2 cesium fountain clock, three times more accurate than the previous clock, improves reliability for communications networks and positioning systems that depend on precise timing.
3/31/2014
Project Interoperability aims to develop and standardize formats for sharing security and threat information among organizations.
3/27/2014
Amazon gets provisional operating authorization to sell cloud services to the Defense Department for work involving low-risk unclassified data.
3/21/2014
Shared Services Canada cuts costs and improves efficiency by consolidating basic IT services across much of the Canadian federal government.
3/7/2014
NIST proposes ways for mobile-device users to access government networks without requiring smart-card readers.
3/5/2014
Microsoft lets federal agencies take its newly operational Azure for Government for a "shakedown cruise."
2/26/2014
The Former White House cybersecurity adviser says the NSA's focus on perimeter security made it vulnerable to insider Edward Snowden.
2/12/2014
The White House on Wednesday released the first version of its cyber security framework for protecting critical infrastructure. Critics say these voluntary guidelines enshrine the status quo.
1/23/2014
Einstein 3 intrusion prevention system analyzes traffic to and from executive-branch agencies to block threats at the ISP level.
1/10/2014
A Government Accountability Office study recommends that agencies improve the way they respond to data breaches; new guidelines are en route.
1/8/2014
Government can do more to protect data being collected by in-car location tracking services, watchdog agency tells Congress.
12/23/2013
Medical file reportedly found on a peer-to-peer filesharing network leads to an FTC complaint, a federal lawsuit, and a book claiming regulatory overreach.
12/16/2013
Science on a Sphere, a carbon-fiber globe created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, displays weather conditions and environmental data in a compelling way.
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