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City and County of San Francisco Adopts Microsoft Cloud Solution: This solution will he... - 0 views

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  • “The City and County of San Francisco has always been forward-thinking in leveraging technology to improve the services it provides,” said Gail Thomas Flynn, vice president of U.S. State and Local Government at Microsoft Corp. “We are excited at the opportunity to equip and support the employees of San Francisco with the tools they need to better serve the people of San Francisco.”
  • Several competing solutions were examined based on criteria that included price, security, functionality, flexibility, SLA-backed service, proven record for support, and integration with existing infrastructure and tools.
  • “By moving to the Microsoft platform, we not only get immediate improvements to our system, but we gain a disaster-resilient system that provides the most modern information tools, with solid support provisions that can scale with the needs of our constituents,” San Francisco Chief Information Officer Jon Walton said.
  • sandy ingram on 20 May 11
     
    "SAN FRANCISCO - May 18, 2011 - The City and County of San Francisco today announced that it will upgrade and consolidate its multiple citywide email systems used by more than 23,000 employees as part of its ongoing efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of its services and reduce IT management costs. "A key part of serving a community as diverse and vibrant as ours starts with making the right investments in information technology," San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee said. "It is our responsibility to make decisions that are fiscally responsible, forward-looking, and improve the services that city and county employees provide to our constituents.""
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SANS Institute - Special Webcast: Cyber Terrorism: Fact or Fiction - 0 views

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  • The topic of Cyber Terrorism has been a subject of many debates as to the reality of a significant event-taking place at the click of the button. In recent media coverage we've seen the London & Spain train bombings being triggered remotely using one of the most world's most adopted technologies, a cell phone. Who would ever think that someone would use a cell phone as a trigger point for detonating a bomb? Additionally, who would ever think that a terrorist organization would realize that all cell phones on the same cellular network receives their time/date from the same network timeserver so everyone has the correct time. This has allowed them to conduct simultaneous attacks via sms or speed dial on their phone.
  • sandy ingram on 06 Jul 09
     
    The topic of Cyber Terrorism has been a subject of many debates as to the reality of a significant event-taking place at the click of the button. In recent media coverage we've seen the London & Spain train bombings being triggered remotely using one of the most world's most adopted technologies, a cell phone. Who would ever think that someone would use a cell phone as a trigger point for detonating a bomb? Additionally, who would ever think that a terrorist organization would realize that all cell phones on the same cellular network receives their time/date from the same network timeserver so everyone has the correct time. This has allowed them to conduct simultaneous attacks via sms or speed dial on their phone.
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IT worker gets prison after stealing data for online surveys - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 02 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Between January and April of this year, Giang filled out 382 surveys before the company that was paying for them, StayWell, figured out what was going on. StayWell had been offering UC employees the gift vouchers as incentives to fill out health surveys, but it grew wise to the scam.
  • Giang only used part of the Social Security numbers of his co-workers while filling out the survey, his lawyer states in a sentencing memorandum. "Mr Giang never intended to steal their identity, and other than losing the opportunity to participate in StayWell's marketing surveys, the victims did not lose anything," says the Oct. 20 memorandum asking the judge for probation instead of jail time.
  • sandy ingram on 02 Nov 10
     
    A former IT staffer has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for stealing sensitive information belonging to his co-workers and using the data to make money filling out online health surveys. Cam Giang, 31, was fired from the University of California San Francisco Medical Center earlier this year after investigators discovered that he'd been using the names, birthdays and Social Security numbers of other UCSF employees to fill out hundreds of online surveys. The point was to collect online vouchers, worth US$100 each.
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DoD, DHS to align cybersecurity capabilities - 0 views

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shared by sandy ingram on 14 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The new partnership appears to be part of an effort to move past previous agency turf wars. Last March, for example, Rod Beckstrom resigned from his position as director of the DHS' National Cyber Security Center, citing insufficient funding and support. In his letter of resignation to Napolitano, Beckstrom said the DHS's cybersecurity efforts are "controlled" by the NSA. Meanwhile, it is not uncommon for government departments and agencies to enter into formal agreements to work together on certain issues and to “swap” employees to improve synchronization, Marcus Sachs, director of the SANS Internet Storm Center, told SCMagazineUS.com on Thursday. This agreement is particularly important because the DoD and DHS have a joint mission to protect the United States in cyberspace, he said.
  • sandy ingram on 14 Oct 10
     
    The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced plans Tuesday to streamline their cybersecurity capabilities to better protect the nation's networks. Late last month, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates signed an agreement that formalizes processes for the two agencies to work together to protect U.S. networks and critical infrastructure. The agreement outlines a framework whereby the agencies will provide cybersecurity support to one another, and was intended to improve collaboration as the two departments carry out their respective cybersecurity missions.
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The Cloud's Green Advantage - Forbes.com - 0 views

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  • When small organizations (100 users) move to the cloud, the effective carbon footprint reduction could be up to a 90% savings by using a shared cloud environment instead of their own local servers
  • For large corporations, the savings are typically 30% or more. In a case study with a large consumer-goods company, the team calculated that 32% of energy use and resulting carbon emissions could be saved by moving 50,000 e-mail users in North America and Europe to Microsoft's equivalent cloud offering.
  • What accounts for these significant energy savings? Think of cloud computing as being like mass transit. The data center is essentially getting computing applications to carpool or take the bus instead of sitting in their own individual servers. However, unlike mass transit, there is no sacrifice in convenience or performance with this move. Consider the disappointing fact that a typical server in a company often runs at about 10% of capacity, meaning there are lots of servers out there drawing power without doing much computing
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  • The economies of scale of cloud data centers allow much higher utilization of servers, dynamic provisioning to better match server capacity to demand, and multi-tenancy to serve thousands of organizations with one set of shared infrastructure.
  • The efficiency benefits of the cloud won't be realized unless customers are thoughtful about decommissioning or repurposing unused servers, and cloud providers like Microsoft continue to innovate in the name of greater and greater efficiency.
  • For companies with their own large-scale infrastructure, this study identifies the key drivers that will let them optimize for the greatest efficiency as well.
  • sandy ingram on 17 Nov 10
     
    "In his piece, "Cloud Computing Meets Energy Management," William Clifford makes important points about the need to optimize the efficiency of both cloud data centers and on-premise computing. However, a new study released this week challenges his assertion that cloud computing "just transfers the consumption problem to another location." The findings suggest instead that cloud computing can significantly reduce the overall net energy use of business computing needs."
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