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Crucial Point provides technology due diligence consulting and CTO advisory services. Here is the latest on what we have been up to.
On 15 April 2015, Chris Dorobek hosted a GovLoop discussion between Karen Evans, former CIO of the federal government and currently national director of the US Cyber Challenge, Alan Paller, the highly respected founder and research director of the SANS Institute, and me (Bob Gourley), a student of … [Read more...] about Mitigating The Risk Of Cyber Attacks Against Government Enterprises
On Tuesday March 24, the DC identity community is hosting the annual Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) event at the International Spy Museum. Could there be a better venue for discussing multiple identities and hidden individual attributes? Attribute Based Access Control is the key to protecting … [Read more...] about Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) Best of Breed March 24 at International Spy Museum
Crucial Point founder and CTO Bob Gourley provided strategic context on cyber conflict in a WSJ report titled: Debate Deepens Over Response to Cyberattacks “Once the planners and everyone looks [into retaliation], it puts it on an escalation ladder we don’t want to be on,” said Bob Gourley, a … [Read more...] about Bob Gourley Cited in WSJ Over Congressional Debate Over Cyberattacks
On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 CTOvision publisher Bob Gourley hosted an event for federal big data professionals. The breakfast event focused on security for big data designs and featured the highly regarded security architect Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera, a … [Read more...] about Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia
Bob Gourley was interviewed by Federal News Radio in a broadcast that aired on 20 January 2015. Gourley discussed open data and new approaches to bringing it all together to meet enterprise missions, data security, the cloud and big data. Federal Tech Talk host John Gilroy pulled insights from … [Read more...] about Bob Gourley: Interview with Federal News Radio
Bob Gourley provided context in reporting by Slate: “I have tracked cyber threats since December 1998 and have never seen anything like this. It might have roots in the early Web-defacements for propaganda”—usually by anti-war or animal-rights groups—“but they were child’s play, done really for … [Read more...] about Sony Pictures attack is a new era in cyberwarfare: Is it an attack on the United States?
On 11 Dec 2014 we will be providing a briefing on lessons extracted from our research into the new Cloudera and Intel partnership. This presentation is designed to arm architects with the information they need to efficiently modernize and deliver cost-saving, mission-supporting capabilities to their … [Read more...] about Technologists From Intel, Cloudera and CTOvision Delve Into Big Data Designs 11 Dec 2014
From the INSA-AFCEA Summit: "There will be bad guys in the future -- bad, bad, bad guys," Gourley said. "They're going to rush to this Internet of Things and they're going to out-innovate us... We have to automate, just to keep up." He said that he agreed with the panelists on the initial … [Read more...] about Internet Of Things Intrigues Intelligence Community