Crucial Point LLC founder Bob Gourley featured in Washington Post Captial Business blog commenting on Microsoft Azure: Regardless, Brett Waldman, a technology analyst at IDC, said not to expect an immediate mass migration to the cloud. “Most people, including Microsoft, expect cloud adoption to be a multi-year journey, but do expect everyone to eventually arrive [...]
Crucial Point Establishes Open Concept Examination Capability in CTOlabs.com
June 15, 2010 By
Crucial Point LLC, a technology due diligence, consulting, research, and services firm, today announced the establishment of CTOLabs.com, a new, open means for providing interoperable concepts and constructs for the integration of emerging technologies into enterprises. “Crucial Point and our collaboration of world class technologists provide a wide range of consulting services, all flowing from [...]
Gourley: Intelligence Community Should Provide Unclassified Cyber Threat Assessments Annually – The New New Internet
June 15, 2010 By
Gourley provides context for the New New Internet: For that be effective, Gourley writes that the Department must choose the a capable and intelligence technology leader to head the NCCC. “The nation must choose wisely and put a very smart technology leader in this position,” he writes. “Someone who can enforce the right standards and [...]
Federal News Radio 1500 AM: Analysis: Gen. Alexander to head Cyber Command
May 11, 2010 By
Crucial Point CTO Bob Gourley provides on air context on the standup of the new Cyber Command: The Senate has confirmed Army General Keith Alexander to lead the U.S. Cyber Command. The Cyber Command will head efforts to secure Pentagon networks. Alexander also leads the National Security Agency, and that has raised concerns about militarizing [...]
Don’t look down: The path to cloud computing is still missing a few steps — Government Computer News
March 12, 2010 By
Crucial Point CTO Bob Gourley provides context on Cloud Computing for Government Computing News: In addition, the cloud computing industry needs standards for securely exchanging information among clouds. “What if I have something running in Microsoft Azure, another capability in Amazon Elastic Compute and something else in Google’s environment, and I’ve mashed them together somehow,” [...]
Can we stop the global cyber arms race?
February 10, 2010 By
Crucial Point CTO Bob Gourley perspectives used for context on cyber conflict: The U.S. government has perhaps the world’s most powerful and sophisticated offensive cyberattack capability. This capability remains highly classified. But the New York Times has reported that the Bush administration used cyberattacks on insurgent cellphones and computers in Iraq, and that it approved [...]
As attacks increase, U.S. struggles to recruit computer security experts – washingtonpost.com
December 23, 2009 By
Crucial Point CTO Bob Gourley provides context in Washington Post reporting on cyber security: Cybersecurity lawyers, researchers and policymakers are also in short supply. The Pentagon, for instance, lacks a career path to develop “expert decision-making in the cyber field,” said Robert D. Gourley, a former Defense Intelligence Agency chief technology officer. “The great cyber-generals [...]
Infosecurity (USA) – Report: Federal agencies overstretched on cybersecurity
November 13, 2009 By
Crucial Point CTO Bob Gourley provides context to InfoSecurity-us.com: In spite of the increasing security challenges, only 52% of front-line federal IT professionals felt that they had an adequate budget to meet their cybersecurity needs. Bob Gourley, CTO of technology advisory firm Crucial Point and former CTO for the US Defense Intelligence Agency, said that [...]
Crucial Point CTO Bob Gourley featured on WUSA 9 News providing context on computer virus attacks.
November 12, 2009 By
Crucial Point CTO Bob Gourley featured on WUSA 9 News providing context on computer virus attacks. wusa9.com | Washington DC News, Weather, Video, Traffic, Sports | Video.
JackBe Introduces Transparency 2.0 Solution for State and Local Government Agencies | Reuters
October 26, 2009 By
Crucial Point CTO Bob Gourley cited on enterprise mashups: “I`ve seen firsthand the ROI that mashup-driven solutions can deliver to federal agencies. I strongly believe that state and local governments, too, can reap the same benefits,” said Bob Gourley, Chief Technology Officer of Crucial Point LLC and former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). “With quick, secure access [...]