Microsoft Expands Azure Cloud for Government
Microsoft is releasing new cloud services as part of its public-sector push that would allow military and government users to share sensitive and classified data across internal and cloud ...Full Article
Report Calls for U.S. AI Strategy Based on Trust
The rise of machine intelligence has prompted policy wonks to weigh in with a list of caveats along with recommendations for preserving the American technology lead in AI and ...Full Article
Blockchain and Biometrics Could Produce Paperless Global Travel, Boost Border Security
A wonderful week in Italy is coming to an end, and now it’s the heartbreak of leaving the life of the Med. But you're imbued with the spirit of ...Full Article
2 DoD Cloud Contracts Total Nearly $1 Billion
Migration of government agencies’ legacy applications to public clouds is a two-headed monster: one head is the procurement process, which can take months or years. The other is the ...Full Article
How to Prevent GDPR Mistakes
Nearly everyone with a credit report is familiar with the recent Equifax data breach. And anyone in the business of moving sensitive data is familiar with how a robust ...Full Article
Fending off AI Armageddon: Threats to Our Data, Our Safety, Our Country
Bruce Schneier is scary smart. The things he talks about – AI weaponization, remote hacking of commercial airliners and self-driving cars, malicious alteration of medical records – are scarier. ...Full Article
AWS Adds ‘Secret’ Region to CIA Cloud
Public cloud giant Amazon Web Services announced a new "secret region" this week designed to complete its portfolio of data classifications for U.S. government workloads. AWS said Monday (Nov. ...Full Article
Algorithms at War
There are few enterprises accumulating more sensor and video data than the U.S. Department of Defense. For analysts, that means sitting for hours each day in front of screens ...Full Article
The Week in Cybersecurity: Kaspersky Out in the Cold; Azure Releases ‘Confidential Computing’
Cybersecurity – along with national security and Russian espionage – are very much in the news, and the two concerns came together this week with the announcement by the ...Full Article
Equifax Ignored Apache Struts Patch For Months
In the aftermath of the second massive security breach at Equifax Inc. in four years, the Apache Foundation confirmed this week the data breach stemmed from the consumer credit ...Full Article