Author Archive
Kevin McCaney
Kevin McCaney is a former editor of Defense Systems and GCN.
CBP exposes contractor trade secrets in surveillance project
Customs and Border Protection took down documents included in a solicitation for the "virtual border fence" project that may have included proprietary contractor information.
- By Kevin McCaney
Are your employees on a BYOD binge?
A new study found that only 9 percent of organizations are "fully aware" of the personal mobile devices accessing their networks.
- By Kevin McCaney
Google, Microsoft cloud crashes: Is this the new normal?
Recent outages for Google Docs and Office 365 add to a string of public clouds going dark.
- By Kevin McCaney
13 contractors targeted in massive cyber espionage campaign
McAfee's report says 72 organizations, including 13 contractors, have been compromised, and petabytes of sensitive data have been stolen. Some experts suspect China as the culprit.
- By Kevin McCaney
Which tablet ruled the FOSE show?
Twelve products are honored in their categories, and a familiar face takes Best in Show.
- By Kevin McCaney
Planning for FOSE 2011? Here's a primer.
The expo and conference, July 19-21 at the Washington Convention Center, will present a smorgasbord of innovative technologies and products, and techniques for applying them to government.
- By Kevin McCaney
The long tail of space shuttle tech
Even though the Atlantis' 12-day mission marks the close of the shuttle era, you might be surprised at some of the beneficial technologies the program leaves behind.
- By Kevin McCaney
Defense contractors get a cyber assist from NSA
The National Security Agency is offering its scanning tools to protect e-mail and other digital communications for major defense contractors, as part of what could be an escalating cyber war.
- By Kevin McCaney
For 100 years, IBM kept changing in order to stay IBM
There are scads of reasons IBM has survived and thrived over the last century, but not least of them has been technological innovation.
- By Kevin McCaney
Bin Laden's encrpyted data may be unreadable
One expert says good encryption could keep Osama bin Laden's data unreadable, but others say the Navy SEALs were prepared for extraction.
- By Kevin McCaney
3 excellent reasons to ignore the Royal Wedding
Streaming video will encircle, nay, strangle the globe, and the Prattle Royale will continue all day. It might not be as pretty as you think.
- By Kevin McCaney
Energy site knocked out by Amazon cloud failure
A cutting-edge Energy Department collaboration website hosted by Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud remained unavailable well into the second day of the company's Web services failure.
- By Kevin McCaney
Is Amazon's cloud crash a cautionary tale for government?
Amazon's extended outage at one of the data centers that hosts cloud services could be of concern for agencies being ordered to move some applications to the cloud.
- By Kevin McCaney
White House deputy CTO leaves, will target state and local collaboration
Andrew McLaughlin is resigning from his job as deputy White House chief technology officer to start two companies, one of them to develop collaboration tools for state and local governments.
- By Kevin McCaney
Cyber 'epidemic' grows more urgent
With cyber threats to linked systems a potential epidemic, a panel of security leaders call for government to step up efforts on standards, collaboration and raising public awareness.
- By Kevin McCaney
Open data is changing health care, panel says
Opening data to patients and outside developers is leading health care toward a fundamental change in how patients get care, panelists said today at the Executive Leadership Council.
- By Kevin McCaney
'War consists largely of endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides'
An Army Reserve colonel in Afghanistan is fired after writing a column slamming the military's use of PowerPoint, saying days are spent preparing, presenting and viewing slide shows.
- By Kevin McCaney
'War consists largely of endless tinkering with PowerPoint slides'
An Army Reserve colonel in Afghanistan is fired after writing a column slamming the military's use of PowerPoint, saying days are spent preparing, presenting and viewing slide shows.
- By Kevin McCaney
On Independence Day, who was free from techno tyranny?
On the approach of the July Fourth weekend, we asked readers to declare their independence from the oppression workplace tools. See what devices, gadgets and apps they chose to take a holiday from.
- By Kevin McCaney
AT&T iPad data leak: Hack or hype?
Compromised data was limited to e-mail addresses, many of which are already publicly available, but authorities still plan to probe the incident.
- By Kevin McCaney