I agree. NIST has been leading the way on this for a long time. With DoD on board, it just makes the case that much stronger. As a result, life will be much simpler at DoD.
In reply to: Re: Smart move
Thankfully it has a limited one year warranty and will be replaced, and mine could be an anomaly, but this is a disturbing lack of product reliablility for such an expensive product especially compared to the reliablility...
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Do I understand this correctly -- that if you're not interacting with your phone for some set period, there must be something horribly wrong? Sounds to me like "a good day."
In reply to: Re: where do i begin...
What do you think is the magic price here? Has Google reached it yet?
In reply to: Re: Competition!
>They need to make a categorical statement that they won't examine your information in Drive. I'd like to see that too, but I suspect it won't happen. Drive users, however, can still encrypt files locally and upload...
In reply to: Re: Google needs to make a categorical statement: No Drive snooping
This decision marks an important inflection point for the US federal marketplace. By accepting the NIST Security Standards, the DoD is demostrating strong support for a government-wide IT management and governance paradigm....
In reply to: Industry inflection point
Good luck you'll have a 6 hour wait time for the DB to mount with 250GB in memory if you restart the sql instance.
In reply to: Re: Confused
>I think a good operational stance is to not trust any entity but instead follow the money.
This explains perhaps why intelligence budgets are classified.
In reply to: Re: Spare me
If implemented, attack detection mode would almost certainly generate enough false positives that it would have to be shut down. Emergency services operators would get tired of the robo calls for help that turned out to...
In reply to: Re: where do i begin...
As a developer / architect, we have to learn a wide variety of different environments, and when we have multiple confusing sets of standards we have to meet, depending on the customer being one federal agency or another,...
In reply to: From a developer / Architect point of view
In the past, Google has said it is free to view your information as a better way to bring the world's information to you. It's in your interest, so just let us do what we do best. They need to make a categorical statement...
In reply to: Google needs to make a categorical statement: No Drive snooping
I think one of the secret sauce ingredients to a successful 'baked in' DoD RMF system implementation is the DISA CCIs (Control Correlation Identifiers). Many haven't noticed, but DISA FSO has been re-writing and re-wiring...
In reply to: DISA CCIs
The 70% maintenance cost is a little misleading. It is better represented as the total cost of owning a software system. For any large software deployment, 70% or more of the total cost of the software is represented by...
In reply to: Re: Consolidate
This decision comes as welcome news. NIST's risk management framework, and its related documents (linked in this story), including 800-53 Rev 4, indeed take a more holistic approach to information assurance and security. ...
In reply to: Smart move
What I'm concerned about is what Google does with this info? For corporate customers, they likely keep hands off. I can't imagine businesses using them otherwise. But for consumer use, I simply won't ever trust Google, no...
In reply to: What does Google know?
This might not be a bad feature as long as the owner can turn it on or off. Not sure we want a kill switch owned by the telcos, manufacturer or government. I feel it would just get hacked. I am perfectly happy...
In reply to: Re: Come on ...
As OPM Director Archuleta said herself in her summary remarks, "a plan is just a plan." Whether OPM's new IT leadership will have more luck that the last regime in implementing needed changes in OPM's IT operations remains...
In reply to: A plan is a plan
I'm skeptical de Blasio will use analytics or big data because they most likely will disprove his platform, especially regarding education. He appears to be using his position to guarantee jobs for his pals, with little...
In reply to: Re: Education
Not sure if cutting prices will be enough to counter the public and corporate fears about NSA's intrusion into privacy and confidentiality. I think the technology industry must work together (perhaps in collaboration with...
In reply to: Price Drops Alone?
If you do choose to store data on a drive of some kind though, it's important to keep a copy offsite somewhere in case of fire, water damage, break-in, or some other disaster, natural or man-made. Granted, you may not have...
In reply to: Re: .gov is watching so no thanks.
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