Federal Government

Earlier this month, I wrote an article for CIO Review, “Government IT – The Data Debate,” on the information security challenges faced in the government sector. Nowhere is there a more regulated space within which IT must work to protect large amounts of sensitive data and guard against security incidents that may put the data (and the organization) at risk. All on an ever-diminishing budget, of course. I spent the early...

How is the public sector protecting mobile data? I recently answered this question in a post on The Information Daily, examining the benefits and risks that come alongside a paperless environment. When data moves from being physically bound – on network, on paper, on solid storage devices – to virtual and mobile to any device endorsed to access it, all of these endpoints become a potential security breach. With reported...

The Pentagon has just announced that Samsung mobile devices have been cleared for use on Defense Department networks, the first mobile device to be added to the ‘closed’ military network that has to-date only supported BlackBerry devices. The announcement highlights the acknowledgement by the military of the consumerization of IT while also demonstrating the strong security built into the new Samsung devices. Samsung recently announced that its flagship GALAXY mobile devices...