United States Can Do More to Prepare for CBRNE Events

Originally posted by Holly Gilbert on Security Management

How effectively could the United States respond to a CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield Explosives) event, and how well are we able to assist our international partners in the face of such disasters? That was the topic of the keynote address delivered by Dr. Paul Stockton, president of Cloud Peak Analytics, at a workshop titled "An All-of-Government Approach to Increase Resilience for International CBRNE Events" held in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. The event was hosted by the National Academy of Sciences and sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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The Roadmap to Government Cybersecurity Protection, An Interview with John Bordwine

Posted by Andrew M. Scott

Cybersecurity concerns have never been higher with the recently alleged use of cyber-attacks against the United States from China and the largest DDoS attack in history occurring only a few weeks ago in the UK.

With this year's Symantec Government Technology Summit in two weeks, we sat down with the security solution provider's Public Sector CTO John Bordwine to talk about this critically changing landscape.

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Improved Collaboration Tools Ranked In Top 3 of Critical Initiatives for CIOs

Posted by Adobe

Asked about key IT initiatives from 2012, CIOs ranked improving collaboration tools third -- behind cloud services and virtualization. Collaboration concerns beat out big data and analytics, application consolidation, security and risk management, and a host of other key IT initiatives.

Understandable considering it directly contributes to these issues - mostly security and risk management.

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