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John Garing, DISA CIO, to Speak at AFEI Open Technologies Conference
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John Garing, CIO and Director of Strategic Planning at DISA, will be one of the keynote speakers at the 4th DoD Open Technologies Conference. John will speak on the the vision of DoD 2.0 and how open technologies fit into that vision. |
For more information on the conference visit the web site here
AFEI SOA Report To Be Briefed at NDIA Event
The SOA acquisition report published recently is the first broad industry assessment of the tactical implications for the Program Manager of SOA implementation. It is being briefed again at the San Diego Chapter of NDIA SOA conference on October 16th.
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World's First Military Action with a Coordinated Cyber Attack?
The Internet is awash in reports that Russia may have launched cyber attacks in conjunction with its military action against Georgia. The UK Telegraph reported on August 11 that the
Georgian government said that the disruption was caused by attacks carried out by Russia as part of the ongoing conflict between the two states over the Georgian province of South Ossetia.
This incident may be revealing a side of cyber warfare that until now was not well known - citizen hacktivism supporting military goals.
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Jim Stogdill blog post here
ZDNet Zero Day blog post here
Wired Blog post here
2008 National Defense Strategy Highlights Enabling Technology - Information Sharing
The Department of Defense released the 2008 National Defense Strategy which follows on from the President’s National Security Strategy and the Quadrennial Defense Review in 2006. Within DoD Capabilities and Means it identifies information sharing as a vital component of national security saying “Reliable information and analysis, quickly available, is an enduring challenge.”
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DoD Approves Acceptance of External PKIs
Mr. John Grimes, DoD CIO, signed a memorandum on July 22, 2008, Subject: Approval of External Public Key Infrastructure, authorizing DoD to accept certain PKI certificates from sources other than DoD. Up until the time of this memorandum, the list of approved PKI was limited to only certificates issued by DoD or through the DoD External Certificate Authorities.
The significance of this policy is that DoD is now able to trust the public key infrastructures of non-DoD organizations. This will greatly improve the ability of DoD to federate identity management systems. It is one of the important steps in establishing a federation as outlined in the AFEI Information Sharing Working Group white paper "Federated Governance of Information Sharing Within the Extended Enterprise" January 15, 2008.
(See link to paper below.)
Read DoD CIO PKI Memo here
SOA Acquisition Report Released
The AFEI Executive Forum, SOA Acquisition Working Group just released a white paper Industry entitled, "Recommendations for DoD Acquisition of Information Services and SOA Systems". The report outlines industry recommendations for developing services and services-oriented architecture (SOA) procurement strategies. The report was prepared by industry in conjunction with the OASD (NII).
Request the full text version here.
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