Tech Update Summary from Blue Mountain Data Systems October 2015

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October 2015
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Cloud Security
SURVEY: Shows Little Accord On Responsibility For Cloud Security. Many industry
experts agree that cloud security has to be a shared responsibility between
cloud providers and the businesses that use these services to host and manage
their data and applications. But there’s less agreement over just how much
responsibility each side has for ensuring data security in the cloud. Read more
[DARKREADING.COM]
AWS: Cloud Security Tools Thwart Attacks on AWS Infrastructure. Before Amazon
Inspector, AWS Config Rules and even VPC, third-party cloud security tools stood
guard over AWS — and for a number of reasons, IT pros will continue to rely on
them. Read more
[TECHTARGET.COM]

Cloud Security
MOBILE & CLOUD SECURITY: A New Archetype for Mobile and Cloud Security.
No longer is it possible to establish an unbreachable perimeter because people
and data are constantly flowing into and out of various networks and
applications. To deal with this new reality, an improved security model that can
handle the challenge is needed. Otherwise, users will continue to go it alone and
organizational data will have a high risk of exposure. Read more
[SECURITYINTELLIGENCE.COM]
SHADOW IT: IBM Tackles ‘Shadow IT’ with a New Cloud Security Tool for
Enterprises. If there’s one thing that can strike terror into a CIO’s heart, it’s the
security implications of the cloud. If there’s another, it’s the “bring your own”
technology trend. Combine the two, and you’ve got the motivation behind IBM’s
new Cloud Security Enforcer. Read more
[COMPUTERWORLD.COM]

Security Patches
ADOBE FLASH: Adobe Patches Critical Flash Vulnerability. A few days back Adobe
posted a security bulletin on its website through which it confirmed that it was
aware of a “critical vulnerability” in some versions of Flash player, with the
vulnerability affecting users on Windows, Mac and Linux. It could cause their
systems to crash and even let attackers remotely take control of the system.
Adobe has now confirmed that the vulnerability has been patched. Read more
[UBERGIZMO.COM]
MICROSOFT & APPLE: Microsoft’s Latest Update For Office 2016 For Mac Still
Doesn’t Fix El Capitan Crashes, Hints Apple Is At Fault. While Microsoft updated
Office 2016 for Mac on Tuesday, Oct. 13, with security fixes and minor feature
changes, the software giant failed to release patches on the recurring glitches on
OS X El Capitan. Read more
[TECHTIMES.COM]

Security Patches
WINDOWS: All Versions of Windows Affected by Critical Security Flaw. Even
Windows 10 wasn’t left out of the trifecta of monthly security patches. Microsoft
said in its monthly security bulletin as part of its so-called Patch Tuesday that
Windows Vista and later, including Windows 10, require patching from a serious
remote code execution flaw in Internet Explorer. Read more
[ZDNET.COM]
GOOGLE: Embraces Security Shaming To Answer Android’s Security Problems.
Following the security scares this year, Google has introduced plans to provide a
monthly security patch for manufacturers and carriers to push updates out as
quickly as possible to users’ handsets. Unfortunately Google has to rely on the
goodwill of its partners to push out these patches through over-the-air updates.
Read more
[FORBES.COM]

Customer Engagement
CONNECTED THINKING: 89% See IoT Impacting Customer Engagement ‘Very
Significantly.’ When it comes to the impact of the Internet of Things on customer
engagement, the marketers leading the charge see a totally different picture than
those behind. And the leaders are looking to leverage new connections with
customers, who expects highly personalized engagements, based on a new report.
Read more
[MEDIAPOST.COM]
MOBILE MIND SHIFT: When Enterprises And Carriers Get Together, The Result Is A
Happy Customer. More millennials enter the consumer marketplace each year and
their effect is drastically influencing a multitude of industries. Millennial consumers
are mobile driven and hate not being able to engage with businesses on their
terms. With the increased adoption of mobile devices, there has also been a
fundamental change in consumers’ business expectations. Read more
[RCRWIRELESS.COM]

Customer Engagement
ATTRACT MOBILE READERS: Publishers’ Latest Mobile-Engagement Trick — The
Truncated Article Page. s sidedoor visits continue to dominate publishers’ traffic,
many are coming up with new ways of holding onto — or at the very least
extracting more value from — their mobile readers. For the likes of The New York
Times, Huffington Post and Quartz, one successful tactic is the “read full story”
button, which appears within articles after a few paragraphs for mobile readers.
Visitors who want to actually finish the articles they’ve started reading need to
click the button… Read more
[DIGIDAY.COM]
SALESFORCE AUTOMATION: Making CRM Part Of Your Customer Engagement
StrategyCustomer relationship management (CRM) tools and strategies play an
increasingly important role in the success of most, if not all, organizations today.
The best way to determine whether your organization can benefit from CRM tools
is to evaluate your process for finding, catching and retaining good customers —
not just today, but over time.. Read more
[TECHTARGET.COM]

For the CTO, CIO & CISO
SECURITY LEADERSHIP: CISOs Facing Boards Need Better Business, Communication
Skills. As information security becomes a more important topic of interest for
corporate boards, CISOs are increasingly asked to step up and brief boards on cyber
issues — which means they need to become better communicators, and have a
broader understanding of business needs. Read more
[CSOONLINE.COM]
PROJECT PLANNING: 20 Ways Your IT Team Makes You Look Like a Hero. One of the
disturbing realities of working in IT is that most of your non-IT coworkers don’t
know what you do. That’s good because it offers a certain level of freedom, but it
also means you often don’t get credit for great work. Read more
[CIO.COM]

NEWLY-APPOINTED STATE CIOS: Meet the Class of 2015. Thanks to administration
changes, retirements and new legislation, a dozen states appointed new CIOs this
year and in late 2014. It’s a group that includes few true outsiders. Most of these
new IT chiefs — but not all of them — have been in government before, and many
bring a mix of public- and private-sector experience to the job. Read more
[GOVTECH.COM]
FITARA PLANS: Federal CIO Gives Agencies B-Plus. Agencies have submitted action
plans for implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) and, while
not perfect, the Office of Management and Budget’s top IT official is generally
pleased with the results. Read more
[FEDERALTIMES.COM]

GOVT CONTRACTS: Why Federal CIO Tony Scott Hates The End-Of-Year IT
Spending Spree. The end-of-the-year spending spree — in which agencies cram
contract spending into the last quarter of the fiscal year — is a time-honored
tradition in government contracting. And Tony Scott, one of the Obama
administration’s top tech officials, hates it. Read more
[NEXTGOV.COM]
BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT: Want Faster Deployments? Shift Left. The
office of the CIO exists to enable the business to do business! That mission is
achieved through the design, delivery and operation of the innovative systems
and solutions that each business requires. The challenge CIOs face is keeping up
with exponentially increasing demands and the business expectation to deliver
solutions fast, at a lower cost and with higher quality. You’re already doing all you
can, right? Read more
[CIO.COM]

TECH TRENDS: Pentagon Is Funding New High-Tech Venture. Defense Secretary
Ash Carter [announced that] the Pentagon is funding a new venture to develop
cutting-edge electronics and sensors that can flex and stretch and could be built
into clothing or the skins of ships and aircraft. The high-tech investment could
lead to wearable health monitors that could be built into military uniforms or used
to assist the elderly. Read more
[CIO-TODAY.COM]
DEPT OF THE NAVY: New CIO Brings Acquisition Focus. The Navy earlier this
summer installed a new Navy CIO, a year after the last permanent leader in the
job was promoted to Defense Department CIO. Rob Foster arrived at the Navy
Department in mid-June, with near-term plans to focus on employee productivity,
including mobility, cybersecurity, and using business analytics to drive decision-
making within the service. Read more
[C4ISRNET.COM]

GOVT CONTRACTS: Why Federal CIO Tony Scott Hates The End-Of-Year IT Spending
Spree. The end-of-the-year spending spree — in which agencies cram contract
spending into the last quarter of the fiscal year — is a time-honored tradition in
government contracting. And Tony Scott, one of the Obama administration’s top
tech officials, hates it. Read more
[NEXTGOV.COM]
BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT: Want Faster Deployments? Shift Left. The office
of the CIO exists to enable the business to do business! That mission is achieved
through the design, delivery and operation of the innovative systems and solutions
that each business requires. The challenge CIOs face is keeping up with
exponentially increasing demands and the business expectation to deliver solutions
fast, at a lower cost and with higher quality. You’re already doing all you can, right?
Read more
[CIO.COM]

TECH TRENDS: Pentagon Is Funding New High-Tech Venture. Defense Secretary
Ash Carter [announced that] the Pentagon is funding a new venture to develop
cutting-edge electronics and sensors that can flex and stretch and could be built
into clothing or the skins of ships and aircraft. The high-tech investment could
lead to wearable health monitors that could be built into military uniforms or
used to assist the elderly. Read more
[CIO-TODAY.COM]
DEPT OF THE NAVY: New CIO Brings Acquisition Focus. The Navy earlier this
summer installed a new Navy CIO, a year after the last permanent leader in the
job was promoted to Defense Department CIO. Rob Foster arrived at the Navy
Department in mid-June, with near-term plans to focus on employee
productivity, including mobility, cybersecurity, and using business analytics to
drive decision-making within the service. Read more
[C4ISRNET.COM]

CLOUD-ENABLED SAAS: SEC CIO Leads Efforts To Move Agency To The Cloud. Pamela
Dyson is shepherding a determined, if incremental, effort to move her agency’s
applications to the cloud. Dyson was named the CIO at the Securities and Exchange
Commission in February, after having joined the agency in 2010, when she joined an
ambitious initiative to modernize and improve efficiencies in the SEC’s IT
infrastructure. Read more
[CIO.COM]
SECURITY AWARENESS: 5 Reasons Why Newer Hires Are The Company’s Biggest Data
Security Risk. A study on U.S. mobile security by Absolute Software shows that
Millennials – many of whom are now joining the workforce — hold the greatest risk to
data security over other age groups. Shorter-tenure and younger respondents tend to
have lower expectations of their own responsibility for corporate security, according to
the study of 762 U.S. workers who use employer-issued mobile devices, including
laptops, smartphones and tablets. Read more
[CSOONLINE.COM]

Document Management
INDUSTRY NEWS: How Advanced Scanning and Archiving Can Help Academic
Institutions Streamline Workflows. Scanning and archiving has become essential –
and sometimes legally necessary – to keep pace in today’s business world.
Document scanning is an efficient way to store building, engineering, and
architectural drawings as well as your everyday business files in a secure and
searchable location. However, scanning and archiving of large format technical
documents and drawings is still an often underutilized process. Read more
[THOMASNET.COM]
E-DISCOVERY SERIES: Document Automation Helps You Sleep Better At Night.
Attorneys who understand how document automation works and the benefits it
brings are well positioned to develop a strong business case for introducing the
technology to their organization. The first article of this three-part series offered
an overview of the basics of document automation. Read more
[INSIDECOUNSEL.COM]

Document Management
PRIVACY BREACHES: How Private is Your Private Data When It Comes to
eDiscovery? Home Depot, IRS, Chase, and Ashley Madison — no one is safe
anymore from security breaches or data privacy leaks. It is not a matter of ‘if’ but
generally a matter of when some form of your private data will be compromised.
A breach always truly reveals how private that ‘private’ data really is. Let’s take a
moment and discuss some of the potential privacy breaches when it comes to
eDiscovery. Read more
[BNA.COM]
LAWSUIT: Appeals Court Upholds FTC Authority Over Data Breaches. Any
organization that’s been the victim of a cyber attack has a host of stakeholders to
deal with, not the least of which is the applicable regulatory authority, either state
or federal. Any businesses hoping that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would
lose some of its authority in pursuing companies following cyber breaches have
been sent a clear signal by an appeals court. Read more
[PROPERTYCASUALTY360.COM]

Authentication
STATE OF CYBERCRIME: How to Defend Against Insider Threats. In the real world,
the person behind an organization’s next security breach might be much closer
than anyone realizes. A recent PwC survey on the state of U.S. cybercrime found
that nearly 30 percent of all security incidents were triggered by insiders, which
include employees, trusted contractors and partners. Read more
[EXECUTIVEBIZ.COM]
IMPLEMENTING AUTHENTICATION: Cyber Sprint Laggards Tell Their
Stories (Anonymously). Some agencies started at zero but rocketed upward during
the federal governments sprint to improve two-factor authentication levels. Some
agencies started and stayed high. And some agencies, somehow, saw their two-
factor authentication levels actually drop during the sprint. Read more
[FCW.COM]

Authentication
PROLIFERATED MFA: 5 Big Changes To Computer Security. Now almost all malware is
created to steal money or corporate secrets. The script kiddies are almost gone,
pushed out by the professional hacker gangs that make millions of dollars each day
victimizing home users and corporations with almost no threat of being caught or
prosecuted. Malware has gone from innocuous, funny viruses and worms to identity-
stealing programs and ransomware. Read more
[INFOWORLD.COM]
STILL EVOLVING: How Does Facial Recognition Technology Work? Facial recognition
technology is not exactly a new phenomenon, for all the recent headlines. The first
experimentations with the technology can be traced back to the 1960s, although, back
then, the research going into its development was kept quiet. Whereas today the
science behind the software is much more mathematical, automatic and underpinned
by sophisticated computer power, the early models required a greater level of human
input and were therefore semi-automated. Read more
[WELIVESECURITY.COM]

Business Process Integration
CUSTOMER-FACING PROCESSES: BPM and CRM — Better Together. CRM is all
about managing sales and marketing interactions with customers and potential
customers. Business process management (BPM) is about optimizing workflows
and business processes. So what have they got to do with each other. Read more
[ENTERPRISEAPPSTODAY.COM]
GLOBAL MARKET REPORT: BPM To See Anticipated Compound Annual Growth
Rate of 14% By 2019. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is
the need to improve productivity and gain a competitive advantage. The Global
BPM market has also been witnessing the increased demand for cloud-based
solutions. However, the high implementation costs could pose a challenge to the
growth of this market. Read more
[MOBILECOMMERCEPRESS.COM]

Business Process Integration
BETTER TOGETHER: Geolocation And Mobile BPM Are A Natural Extension. For all
that has been written about the impact of mobile devices on business process
management (BPM), relatively little attention has been lavished on what, to me, is
one of the more exciting aspects of the technology: geolocation. Read more
[TECHTARGET.COM]
PLAN AND STRATEGIZE: How to Implement BPM in Your Organization. Business
Process Management, or BPM, can be a fairly broad term. It encompasses a whole
set of tools and techniques that enhance how you run your business, no matter
what that business may be. Using BPM, those who run a business can better serve
the customer and meet the organization’s goals. One secret of BPM’s success is
that it does not just apply to management or to regular employees or to a
particular department. The best kind of BPM is a company-wide implementation.
Read more
[SMARTDATACOLLECTIVE.COM]

Sharepoint
HYBRID CLOUD: Microsoft Pushes SharePoint Server 2016 to Preview. Microsoft
rolled out the IT Preview of SharePoint Server 2016, along with the new cloud
hybrid search offering for SharePoint 2013 and 2016. The tech giant is gearing its
new releases to the realities of enterprise IT, by including features for device
responsiveness, simplified and intuitive controls, and hybrid cloud environments.
Read more
[THEWHIR.COM]
UNSUPPORTED WORKAROUND: Removing On-Hold Items From Exchange And
SharePoint. On the face of it, the request to remove some items from a mailbox or
SharePoint library that are subject to a compliance hold seems odd. After all, you
place items on hold to retain them. But situations do arise when you might be
compelled to remove some items, probably due to a law suit or similar directive,
and if so, the question then arises as to how best to meet this need. Read more
[WINDOWSITPRO.COM]

Sharepoint
ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE: SharePoint 2016: What Do We Know? As you’re probably
aware, SharePoint Online and Office 365 run SharePoint 2013, but at a massive,
multi-tenant, global sort of scale. The product group develops new features, tests
bug fixes and uncovers and fixes other issues and conditions while running this
software in production for hundreds of thousands of customers. Read more
[CIO.COM]
ON-PREMISES COLLABORATION: The Future Of SharePoint 2016 Is Hybrid. The
beta preview of Microsoft Exchange 2016 shows it to be more of a service pack for
Exchange 2013 than a full server release. The message is loud and clear that in
keeping with Microsoft’s “cloud first” strategy, the real innovation would happen
in the cloud version, and eventually the product will become cloud-only. Read
more
[INFOWORLD.COM]

Programming & Scripting Development
Client & Server-Side
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: New JavaScript-Based Language Brings The Speed.
The list of languages compiling to JavaScript is about to welcome newcomer Imba,
a speedy language for the Web. Currently in a late-beta stage, Imba is the
brainchild of developer Sindre Aarsaether, of Oslo, who sees tags and selectors in
the language as a key differentiator. Read more
[INFOWORLD.COM]
REACT JAVASCRIPT LIBRARY: Netflix.com Adopts Universal JavaScript, Drops Java
From Rendering Pipeline. To decrease the time users spent waiting, Netflix has
removed the Java server-based renderer and reduced the amount of HTML sent
down the wire. In a post describing the change, Kristofer Baxter, said that by not
rendering pieces of the app that the user will never see (among other changes),
they’ve been able to speed up the time til interaction by 70%. Read more
[INFOQ.COM]

JERRYSCRIPT: Another JavaScript Engine For Embedded Devices. JerryScript is a
lightweight JavaScript interpreter intended to run on a very constrained devices
such as microcontrollers and proclaims itself as “A JavaScript engine for the
Internet of Things”. Read more
[I-PROGRAMMER.COM]
ANDROID NEWS: Chromium Team Shows Improved Input Responsiveness On
Some Sites That Rely Heavily On JavaScript Timers. A dedicated app typically
provides a better experience than a mobile site, but there are still plenty of
instances where we end up inside the Android version of Chrome. Heck, that’s one
of the major benefits of owning a smartphone—the entire web is accessible to you
throughout most of the day. Read more
[ANDROIDPOLICE.COM]

POWERSHELL: Why You Will Never Go Back to Cmd.exe Batch Files. Scripts have a
long history on the Windows OS platform. In Cmd.exe most people call them batch
files, but they are scripts nonetheless. The command-line parsing rules that
Cmd.exe uses mean that some commands you enter on a Cmd.exe command line
behave differently than when you put the same commands in a batch file. Read
more
[WINDOWSITPRO.COM]
NEW CODING TOOLS: Eve Aims To Change The Way Programming Works. There’s
been a tremendous amount of focus on teaching the world to code in the last
couple of years, but Eve—out in public for the first time this week—takes a
different approach. Rather than turning us all into computer programmers, it
wants to change what programming is and create “a better way for us to interact
with computers.” Read more
[READWRITE.COM]

PROGRAMMING AND PREJUDICE: Computer Scientists Discover How To Find Bias
In Algorithm. Software may appear to operate without bias because it strictly uses
computer code to reach conclusions. That’s why many companies use algorithms
to help weed out job applicants when hiring for a new position. Read more
[PHYS.ORG]
GALLUP NEWS: Standardized Tests May Be Holding Back The Next Generation Of
Computer Programmers. s computer science as important as English, history or
math? Most parents, teachers and students in schools today would say yes,
according to a study recently released by Google and Gallup. Read more
[WASHINGTONPOST.COM]

JAVASCRIPT: Why Tungsten.js Is Not Like Other JavaScript Frameworks. Created at
an e-commerce site, the JavaScript technology lets users build Web UIs with high-
performance rendering on both client and server. InfoWorld Editor at Large Paul
Krill recently spoke with Wayfair’s Matt DeGennaro, the primary developer of
Tungsten.js, about the framework and what separates it from other JavaScript
options. Read more
[INFOWORLD.COM]
FAYDE: Silverlight In JavaScript. Fayde is an implementation of Silverlight as a
JavaScript compiler. It is not so much a reimplementation of Silverlight, more an
XAML engine in JS. It can be used to port existing Silverlight projects, but not
without some work. Read more
[I-PROGRAMMER.INFO]

PROGRAMMING SKILLS: Now Would Be a Great Time To Get Into Creative
JavaScript. Daniel Shiffman, an associate professor with NYU’s Interactive
Telecommunications Program, has written a textbook, The Nature of Code. It’s
about modeling natural systems with programming, generally, but in the process it
makes a lot of possibilities in game development, artificial intelligence, the
absolutely exploding world of creative coding, and beyond suddenly really clear
and accessible. Read more
[MOTHERBOARD.VICE.COM]
JAVA & MACS: What Causes the Java Installation Dialog to Appear in OS X? A few
ideas for getting rid of this annoyance. Read more
MACWORLD.COM]

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: 9 Bad Programming Habits We Secretly Love.
Breaking the rules can bring a little thrill — and produce better, more efficient
code. Read more
[INFOWORLD.COM]
NEW CODING TOOLS: Eve Aims To Change The Way Programming Works. There’s
been a tremendous amount of focus on teaching the world to code in the last
couple of years, but Eve—out in public for the first time this week—takes a
different approach. Rather than turning us all into computer programmers, it
wants to change what programming is and create “a better way for us to interact
with computers.” Read more
[READWRITE.COM]

PROGRAMMING AND PREJUDICE: Computer Scientists Discover How To Find Bias
In Algorithm. Software may appear to operate without bias because it strictly uses
computer code to reach conclusions. That’s why many companies use algorithms
to help weed out job applicants when hiring for a new position. Read more
[PHYS.ORG]
GALLUP NEWS: Standardized Tests May Be Holding Back The Next Generation Of
Computer Programmers. Is computer science as important as English, history or
math? Most parents, teachers and students in schools today would say yes,
according to a study recently released by Google and Gallup. Read more
[WASHINGTONPOST.COM]

RESPONSIVE APPLICATIONS: Learning SynchronizationContext, Async, And Await.
Asynchronous programming is a form of parallel programming that enables you to
execute tasks separate from the main application thread and then notifies the thread
when its execution is over. Asynchrony helps you to execute tasks sans the need of
holding up the execution flow or responsiveness of your application. Read more
[NEXTGOV.COM]
WEB PROJECTS: ng-admin Can Add an AngularJS Admin Interface to Any RESTful API.
Since almost every client wants a backend for their applications, an admin panel from
where they can view and control their data, developers need to either craft one on
their own or deploy an open-source or commercial solution written for that peculiar
programming language. Read more
[SOFTPEDIA.COM]

SLIDESHOW: 5 Legacy Technologies Still In High Demand Today. f it ain’t broke, don’t fix
it, as the saying goes. While technology continues to evolve and new languages and
technologies like Ruby, Hadoop and cloud containers dominate headlines, proven
legacy solutions continue to work quietly behind the scenes, powering much of the
digital world. Here are five legacy technologies and skills we still rely on in 2015. Read
more
[CIO.COM]
APP DEVELOPMENT: Building The Next WhatsApp? An Idea And Two People Is All You
Need. Foofys said it takes at least five people to work on an app full time — the user
interface/user experience person, an Android developer, a tester, a coder (who works
on Ruby on Rails, Java and related technologies) and a project manager (in case of
services firms). There is no step-by-step approach or a hand-over phenomenon. Read
more
[ECONOMICTIMES.COM]

Cloud Computing
CLOUD ADOPTION: Five Reasons for Leaving Your Data Where It Is. As cloud
adoption continues its meteoric ascent, the number of access points to enterprise
data also increases. And while keeping data on premise is no guarantee of
security, it does drastically reduce the number of access points. But the case for
keeping data on premise goes far beyond a common sense security and risk
mitigation play that tells us the fewer servers our data runs through, the safer it is.
Read more
[DATANAMI.COM]
SAAS NEWS: Oracle Commerce Cloud Aimed at Building Fast, Responsive Business
Sites. Oracle Commerce Cloud is the latest addition to the cloud application
vendor’s Oracle Customer Experience portfolio and is built for the Oracle Public
Cloud, according to the announcement. The company expects the solution to help
businesses develop their own e-commerce sites on a relatively small budget with
simplified IT management. Read more
[TALKINGCLOUD.COM]

Cloud Computing
NAAS OFFERINGS: Explore The Role Of Network As A Service In Cloud Computing.
The growth of cloud computing has introduced a series of advances to
virtualization and on-demand resource allocation. Starting with Amazon’s release
of S3 object storage, cloud providers have enabled an array of IT services. And,
although it gets less attention than compute, storage and higher-level software
services, networking is no exception. Read more
[TECHTARGET.COM]
SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS: Managing Expectations Is Everything With Cloud
Computing. As more enterprises adopt more cloud for important applications,
they’re finding they’re dealing with new types of relationships, unlike anything
they’ve encountered before. Unlike software purchases in the past, there’s no
longer an up-front installation, followed by tech support as needed. Instead, the
relationship is more akin to a marriage in which the spouses not only live together,
but also work together all day long — 24×7. Read more
[FORBES.COM]

IT Workforce
PODCAST: Cracking The Code To A More Diverse Tech Workforce. The giants of
Silicon Valley — Google, Twitter, Facebook — report that just three to four percent
of their workforce is black or Hispanic, and men outnumber women by more than
two to one. Now, tech companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars to
address the imbalance. In New York, one camp is training such a new generation
of software coders. Read more
[PBS.ORG]
IT MGMT: How Gender Impacts The Tech Job Search. Although professionals in
tech have worked hard to erase the stereotype that IT is a man’s field, these
beliefs still exist among men and women in tech. A study published in March 2014
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences of the United States
of America (PNAS), found that when employers had to hire a professional for a
mathematical task, both male and female recruiters were twice as likely to hire a
man over a woman. Read more
[CIOINSIGHT.COM]

IT Workforce
RESEARCH STUDY: On-Demand Workforce To Include 7.6 Million People By 2020.
Neither regulatory battles facing Uber and Airbnb nor mounting pressure on tech
startups to convert their independent contractors to employees will slow the
rapid-fire growth of the on-demand workforce, according to a new study. Read
more
[SILICONBEAT.COM]
TALENT ANALYTICS: Machine Learning 2.0 — What’s Old Is New Again. Forget
about big data. The latest analytics buzzword HR leaders should be tracking is
actually a blast from the past: machine learning. The term has been around since
the early 1960s, but over the past two years human resources tech vendors across
the industry have infused it with new life. Read more
[WORKFORCE.COM]

Enterprise Security
RESEARCH SURVEY: Most Apple Devices Lack Proper Security For The Enterprise.
Nearly half of all U.S. employees use at least one Apple device at work, but most
of those gadgets lack common security protocols required by many enterprises,
according to a new survey commissioned by Centrify, a company that sells
enterprise security and management software for Apple products. Read more
[CIO.COM]
CHECK POINT SOFTWARE SECURITY REPORT: Enterprise BYOD May Be A Double-
Edge Sword. Check Point Software recently released its 2015 security report which
found that mobile devices have become the biggest threat for today’s enterprises.
I like the fact that more vendors are doing their own studies and sharing the
findings. Cybersecurity has so many facets that it’s very challenging for IT
departments to understand where to focus their energy, so surveys like this help.
Read more
[DELL.COM]

Enterprise Security
DOWNLOAD: Hype Cycle for Enterprise Mobile Security. Mobile technologies
are changing the rules of enterprise IT security. The new 2015 Gartner Report
on Enterprise Mobile Security* is a comprehensive review of critical trends
driving mobile security decisions in today’s enterprises. Read more
[INFORMATIONWEEK.COM]
WINDOWS 10: Microsoft May Offer Some Patch Notes To Enterprises. IT
administrators may get more information than originally planned about
Windows 10 patches, as Microsoft ponders how much to tell business
customers about modifications to the new OS. Read more
[PCWORLD.COM]

Business Intelligence
SLIDESHOW: Best Practices for Choosing a Business Intelligence Dashboard. As far
as business buzzwords go, the terms Big Data, data visualization, data structure,
predictive analytics and business intelligence all get thrown around with the
frequency of a used car salesman putting together his best customer pitch. In fact,
when it comes to acquiring a business intelligence tool, you might hear the
mention of these terms ad nauseam. Read more
[ITBUSINESSEDGE.COM]
TWO-TIER ANALYTICS: Reimagining the User Experience for Business Intelligence.
Software applications have historically been built with a very specific purpose in
mind. Word processors are designed for writing and editing documents, while
spreadsheets are for working with numbers. Today’s more modern tools allow you
to copy a portion of a spreadsheet and paste it into your written document, or
even perform some basic calculations. Read more
[ENTERPRISEINNOVATION.COM]

Business Intelligence
AZURE MARKETPLACE: Yellowfin And Microsoft Launch Free Cloud BI
Environment. Microsoft and Yellowfin have launched a business intelligence (BI)
offering that will be available for free from Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. The
product will help businesses deploy an enterprise-grade BI environment in just a
few clicks, allowing organisations to start analysing the information they hold
straight away and helping them make sense of the large, complex data issues they
face every day to create real insights. Read more
[CLOUDPRO.CO.UK]
CLOUD PORTFOLIO: How Microsoft Is Floating An Intelligent Cloud. Windows 10
just launched, but Microsoft’s head already is back in the cloud. he software giant
shares its strategy for getting enterprises on the cloud with advanced analytics,
machine learning and support for developer-friendly application containers. Read
more
[EWEEK.COM]

Federal Agencies
BUDGET: Debt limit to arrive 2 days early, Treasury secretary warns Congress. The
federal government will reach its borrowing cap on Nov. 3, two days earlier than the
Treasury Department first anticipated, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew wrote Thursday
in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). Treasury has moved the date
up because the government’s resources declined $4 billion-$6 billion more than
expected during the past two weeks, he said. Read more
[FEDERALNEWSRADIO.COM]
DRONES: Federal Government Tests Technology to Find Illegal Drone Operators. The
Federal Aviation Administration has signed an agreement to test technology that
could locate the operators of small drones that are flying illegally near airports, as
the government tries to crack down on near-collisions with manned aircraft. Read
more
[MERCURYNEWS.COM]

Federal Agencies
WEB DESIGN: U.S. Government Issues New Web Design Standards To Make
Federal Websites Easier To Use. The U.S. government has new guidelines to
make federal websites easier on the eyes, helping users navigate and find what
they’re looking for. When accessing a federal website, it’s of the utmost
importance to have all the information clearly at hand. Many government
websites are cumbersome, however, and the U.S. Chief Information Officer
(CIO) Council wants to change that. Read more
[TECHTIMES.COM]
SECURITY: A New Way for Tech Firms to Fight Orders to Unlock Devices.
Although the federal government recently backed down on its efforts to compel
tech companies to install backdoors on their electronic devices, it doesn’t mean
the government has given up on getting access to protected phones and other
devices. Read more
[WIRED.COM]

Federal Agencies
SECURING GOVERNMENT: Lessons From The Cyber Frontlines [DOWNLOAD].
Nearly every state experienced a government network breach during 2014, while
simultaneously managing disruptions in commerce caused by hacks of companies
such as Home Depot, Staples, and Target. Even localities were not exempt — Rapid
City, N.D., and Napa, Calif., are just two cities whose websites were hacked. Read
more
[GOVLOOP.COM]
STRONG AUTHENTICATION: OMB Cites Progress With Hardware-Based
Verification. Agencies have made significant progress instituting hardware-based
personal identity verification cards or alternative forms of strong authentication
for access to cyber systems, OMB has said. Read more
[FEDWEEK.COM]

Federal Agencies
IG NEWS: Lack Of Cybersecurity Staff, Technology Left USPS Vulnerable To
2014 Attack. A lack of properly trained cybersecurity workers and a
comprehensive cyber strategy were major reasons why the U.S. Postal Service
experienced a data breach late last year, a new report found. Read more
[FIERCEGOVERNMENTIT.COM]
MEANINGFUL USE: Critics Warn Of $11 Billion Pentagon Health Records
Fiasco. As the Pentagon prepares the biggest federal IT contract
announcement since Healthcare.gov, critics are warning of an even bigger
fiasco, a record system that’s obsolete before it’s even finished.
Read more
[POLITICO.COM]

IT - State & Local Governments
CALIFORNIA: Obama Admin Announces New Flexible Hybrid Electronics
Manufacturing Innovation Hub. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the
seventh of nine new manufacturing institutes underway will invest $171 million
in advancing next-generation flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing,
fostering American leadership in manufacturing technologies from smart
bandages to self-monitoring weapons systems to wearable devices. Read more
[WHITEHOUSE.GOV]
MINNESOTA: State, Local Officials Preparing For Drones. flood of new flying
tools and toys is forcing local and national officials to prepare new policies to
keep everyone safe in the sky. They’re called drones, unmanned aerial vehicles
or systems, and they’re a booming business, but the new technology is not
without friction. Read more
[SOUTHERNMINN.COM]

MULTI-STATE: Public Assistance Fraud Pilot Shows Promise. A consortium of five
states were able to thwart cross-border, dual participation in the food stamp (SNAP)
program by detecting fraud in real time. The U.S. budget for SNAP exceeds $80
billion annually and the program serves more than 45 million Americans. Read more
[GOVTECH.COM]
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Smart Cities of the Future. Federal and local governments
around the world are expected to spend $475.5 billion on technology products and
services by 2019. From New York to Chicago to Rio de Janeiro, metropolitan centers
around the world are looking for new ways to be “smart” – to become more
sustainable, improve the efficiency of public services and citizens’ quality of life.
Read more
[THEHILL.COM]

TECHNOLOGY TAXES: States Eye Taxes on Streaming Video and Cloud Computing.
With sales of DVDs, videogames and traditional packaged software slumping for
years, more state and local governments are eyeing technologies, such as streaming
video subscriptions and cloud computing, to help make up for hundreds of millions
of dollars or more in lost revenue. Read more
[WSJ.COM]
AUDIT: California Agencies Vulnerable to IT Security Breach. Many California state
agencies are not complying with the state’s information technology standards,
leaving them vulnerable to a major security breach of sensitive data such as Social
Security numbers, health information or tax returns, the state auditor reported
recently. Read more
[TOPTECHNEWS.COM]

JOINT STUDY: Many State Financial Agencies Struggle to Go Digital. Many state
financial agencies say they are having a tough time transitioning to the digital
revolution, citing a culture that often impedes innovation and collaboration and
purchasing rules that make it tough to adapt to technological changes. Read
more
[GOVTECH.COM]
SOUTH CAROLINA: Officials Canvassing Ashley Madison Data For Government
Email Addresses. State officials have begun canvassing data from the Ashley
Madison computer breach in search of email addresses belonging to state
government employees. But State Inspector General Patrick Maley says it is too
early to say what will happen next. Read more
[MYRTLEBEACHONLINE.COM]

TECHNOLOGY TAXES: States Eye Taxes on Streaming Video and Cloud
Computing. With sales of DVDs, videogames and traditional packaged software
slumping for years, more state and local governments are eyeing technologies,
such as streaming video subscriptions and cloud computing, to help make up for
hundreds of millions of dollars or more in lost revenue. Read more
[WSJ.COM]
AUDIT: California Agencies Vulnerable to IT Security Breach. Many California
state agencies are not complying with the state’s information technology
standards, leaving them vulnerable to a major security breach of sensitive data
such as Social Security numbers, health information or tax returns, the state
auditor reported recently. Read more
[TOPTECHNEWS.COM]

JOINT STUDY: Many State Financial Agencies Struggle to Go Digital. Many state
financial agencies say they are having a tough time transitioning to the digital
revolution, citing a culture that often impedes innovation and collaboration and
purchasing rules that make it tough to adapt to technological changes. Read more
[GOVTECH.COM]
SOUTH CAROLINA: Officials Canvassing Ashley Madison Data For Government
Email Addresses. State officials have begun canvassing data from the Ashley
Madison computer breach in search of email addresses belonging to state
government employees. But State Inspector General Patrick Maley says it is too
early to say what will happen next. Read more
[MYRTLEBEACHONLINE.COM]

IT Security | Cybersecurity
CONTINUOUS MONITORING: Are You Competitive With Black Hats? Continuous
monitoring is becoming a very popular term, both among security vendors and
CISOs. In a constantly changing and hostile network environment where new zero-
day exploits appear almost every couple of days, continuous monitoring of your
organization’s infrastructure is vitally important. The main role of continuous
monitoring is to keep your security team constantly aware of newly detected
vulnerabilities, weaknesses, missing patches and configuration flaws that appear to
be exploitable. Read more
[CSOONLINE.COM]
PRIVACY RIGHTS: Cybersecurity Legislation May Face Tough Road. When the Senate
left town in early August for a monthlong recess, it abruptly stopped debate on the
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, which would encourage the voluntary
sharing of cyber threat information among private companies and between
companies and the government. Read more
[USATODAY.COM]

ATTACKS/BREACHES: FBI Sounds Alarm Again On Business Email Compromise
Threat. Over the past two years, cybercriminals have stolen hundreds of millions of
dollars from US businesses by compromising their official email accounts and using
those accounts to initiate fraudulent wire transfers. Read more
[DARKREADING.COM]
NAMED IN A LAWSUIT: Do CIOs and CISOs Get Covered in Cybersecurity Litigation?
In today’s rapidly changing legal landscape, global companies confront a litany of
cyber security issues domestic and international. One issue quickly rising to the top
is Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Office (CISO) cyber
security liability. Read more
[BOL.BNA.COM]

NAAS OFFERINGS: Explore The Role Of Network As A Service In Cloud Computing.
The growth of cloud computing has introduced a series of advances to virtualization
and on-demand resource allocation. Starting with Amazon’s release of S3 object
storage, cloud providers have enabled an array of IT services. And, although it gets
less attention than compute, storage and higher-level software services, networking
is no exception. Read more
[TECHTARGET.COM]
SERVICE-LEVEL AGREEMENTS: Managing Expectations Is Everything With Cloud
Computing. As more enterprises adopt more cloud for important applications,
they’re finding they’re dealing with new types of relationships, unlike anything
they’ve encountered before. Unlike software purchases in the past, there’s no longer
an up-front installation, followed by tech support as needed. Instead, the
relationship is more akin to a marriage in which the spouses not only live together,
but also work together all day long — 24×7. Read more
[FORBES.COM]

Enterprise Security
EXPERT ADVICE: Four Enterprise Scenarios For Deploying Database Security Tools.
Database security tools are incredibly versatile, offering benefits for security,
compliance and even operations. These products, available from third parties,
provide a level of database security well beyond what relational database
management system (RDBMS) vendors offer customers. Read more
[TECHTARGET.COM]
PRIVACY: Companies Averaging 4 Insider-Threat Attacks Per Year. When it comes to
insider IT security threats, the third time is definitely not the charm. In fact, the
typical organization now experiences 3.8 insider security incidents on an annual
basis. Read more
[FIERCECIO.COM]

Enterprise Security
SURVEY FINDINGS: Most Enterprises Don’t Fix 60 Percent of Security
Vulnerabilities. Waratek, the application protection and management company,
announced the results of a survey conducted at the Gartner Security and Risk
Management Summit 2015. Two-thirds of senior security professionals polled said
they remediate 40 percent or less of the security vulnerabilities discovered by
software application security testing tools. Read more
[DARKREADING.COM]
BREACH PREVENTION: Big Security Breaches and How Big Data Can Prevent Them.
In the abstract, network and systems security is easy. We all agree that keeping bad
actors out of your electronic world is a no-brainer. We also all agree that there are
different rights levels that should be assigned to different user groups. Finally, we
all agree that certain systems contain more valuable data than others. Read more
[ENTERPRISENETWORKINGPLANET.COM]

Business Continuity
CRITICAL PLANNING: Systems Are Changing And Business Continuity Must Keep Up.
Today, IT systems are at the center of the successful operation of many business
processes. As we move into higher levels of automation, data collection through the
IoT and more use of compute power than we’ve yet to even image, the importance
of our systems becomes critical to revenue generation and cost control. This is true
across every business. Read more
[DIGINOMICA.COM]
FILL IN THE GAPS: Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Data Centers. To
mitigate a wide range of business risks, including those involving data centers, many
organizations establish business-continuity (BC) or disaster-recovery (DR) plans.
Fewer, however, write plans that focus on specific threats, keep those plans current
or even test them. To ensure success, companies need to do better. Working with
the right advanced data center is one way to fill those gaps. Read more
[DATACENTERJOURNAL.COM]

Business Continuity
AVOID COMPLACENCY: Time Matters When It Comes to Disaster Recovery.
Disasters can strike at any time. They may be caused by human error, cyber-attacks
or by natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, floods and hurricanes. Even so it’s
quite tempting to sit back and relax, to not worry about the consequences of these
upon one’s business — perhaps for cost reasons, but investments in business
continuity are like an insurance policy. Read more
[CLOUDCOMPUTING-NEWS.NET]
VIRTUALIZATION: Disaster Recovery Is Not Dead Yet. One doesn’t need to look very
far to find hypervisor vendor marketing materials, analyst opinions and even a few
trade press articles declaring the death of disaster recovery planning. Most are
following a line of reasoning from the server virtualization evangelists to make the
case that building server hosts with high availability (HA) in mind — using active-
passive failover clustering models, for example — obviates the need for disaster
recovery planning. Read more
[VIRTUALIZATIONREVIEW.COM]

Personal Tech
MORPHOTRUST: Iowa Begins Testing Digital Driver’s Licenses On Your Smartphone.
Last year, we told you about Iowa’s interest in launching digital driver’s licenses, a
move that might begin the phasing out of plastic licenses currently in use
nationwide. As a result, the state recently announced live testing of what it calls the
Mobile Driver License (mDL) in a number of settings, but that testing will be limited
to hundreds of Iowa Department of Transportation employees. Read more
[MASHABLE.COM]
CONNECTED SIGNALS: Tech Startups Want To Change the Way You Drive. It’s no
secret that technology is changing the car industry. The major automakers, as well
as tech giants such as Google and possibly Apple, are laying the groundwork for the
first driverless cars. Meanwhile, a number of engineers and entrepreneurs have
started their own companies to tackle other automotive challenges. Read more
[TOPTECHNEWS.COM]

Personal Tech
TOUCH TAIWAN 2015: This Smartphone Is Actually Supposed To Bend. Remember
when the iPhone 6 Plus was released last year, and some users reported that the
phone was so big, it was actually bending after they put it in their pockets? This
even became a bit of a controversy, so much so that the ordeal got its own name,
Bendgate. Read more
[TECHTIMES.COM]
MICROSOFT: 10 Things You Should Know About Upgrading To Windows 10 [VIDEO].
Even if your computer or tablet is eligible and can run Windows 10, there’s a good
chance you might not be able to upgrade to the new OS for a while. But don’t fret
— if you need to know when you might get it, how to install it, system
requirements, what’s new and more, we’ve got you covered. Read more
[COMPUTERWORLD.COM]

Technology News
WIFI EXPLOIT: Security Flaw Lets Attackers Cripple Your iPhone And There’s No Way
To Stop Them. Wondering how difficult it is for attackers to cripple your iPhone?
The answer isn’t going to make you happy — in a nutshell, all the have to do is
create a Wi-Fi network. That’s right, thanks to a newly detailed security flaw in iOS,
malicious hackers can send an iPhone into an endless reboot loop simply by
creating a Wi-Fi network. Read more
[BGR.COM]
ADD-ONS: Disney Is Using Ultrasonic Sound-Waves To Develop Next Generation
Smartphone Accessories. Companies and researchers are always trying to find
innovative ways to expand the smartphones and tablets we use everyday, whether
it’s a new app or some kind of hardware accessory. And now, a team of researchers
from Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research are leveraging ultrasonic
audio coming from our devices in order to develop new kinds of interactive mobile
controllers. Read more
[CSOONLINE.COM]

Technology News
TECH AND PAY: How Technology Has Affected Wages for the Last 200 Years. Today’s
great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere — in our cars,
our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office — but not in our paychecks. Read
more
[HBR.ORG]
TECH JOBS: Why People Who Put Data Scientist On Their Linkedin Profiles Earn
More Money. As the White House’s first chief data scientist, Patil — widely credited
with coining the term “data scientist” — has become a high-profile champion of the
Obama administration’s open data efforts. The possibilities are seemingly endless
for data science, Patil explained during his speech. And a lot of that has to do with
ambiguous nature of the role. Read more
[NEXTGOV.COM]

Technology News
STRATEGY: How A Jacksonville Tech Firm Doubled Its Workforce In Less Than A Year.
What do you do when you’re a Jacksonville tech company competing in the same
niche space as a Panama City tech company that’s going under? Read more
[BIZJOURNALS.COM]

Search Engines & Servers
STRATEGY & PLANNING: How To Save On SEO Without Being Cheap. A wise person
once said that if you think search engine optimization (SEO) is expensive, you
should see how expensive cheap SEO gets. There are few shortcuts when it comes
to sustainable search engine optimization. As with any other professional service,
quality SEO comes at a price — and premium services are more likely to deliver
desired results. Read more
[SEARCHENGINELAND.COM]
GODADDY INTERVIEW: Educating Teams About SEO and Getting Things Done. At
SEJ Summit Silicon Valley, SEJ Founder Loren Baker had the opportunity to hang out
with Jim Christian to talk about educating teams within the workplace about SEO. In
this video, he discusses how really getting to know your people can help get things
done. Read more
[SEARCHENGINEJOURNAL.COM]

Search Engines & Servers
CHOOSING AN SEO AGENCY: Personal Referrals Drive Nearly Half Of Selections.
Referrals are leading driver of hiring decisions for search engine optimization (SEO)
companies, but do not always produce good results, according to new research. The
study, from Clutch, a source of reviews on SEO companies, indicates that company
attributes such as knowledge, customer service, and transparency were the next
largest influence, mentioned by 43% of companies. Read more
[NETIMPERATIVE.COM]
SEO: Taking a Backseat to Social Media? It seems like such a short time ago, that
changes in the Google algorithms could send a company that relies on search
engine optimization to help market its products into a frenzy. Having the right
keywords, placed carefully in web pages, was the key and aim of everyone looking
to get on the first page of a Google keyword search. Read more
[BUSINESS2COMMUNITY.COM]

Enterprise News
USABILITY: Enterprise Software Companies Need to be Customer Centric. Many
enterprise software firms are working at improving the usability of their solutions.
Further, many enterprise software firms, have embraced the cloud. Read more
[FORBES.COM]
UX NEWS: 4 Consumerization Trends That Are Changing Enterprise Software as We
Know It. Enterprise software is in the midst of a revolution. In the early 2000s,
businesses were the primary users of technology, and they set the rules for how it
should be built. The result was clunky, feature-rich software that no one apart from
a few power users knew how to use. Read more
[ENTREPRENEUR.COM]

Enterprise News
GOOGLE’S SCHMIDT TO DEVS: Challenge Legacy Enterprise Software. Google
executive chairman Eric Schmidt believes there is a big opportunity for software
developers building enterprise solutions that combine mobility, ultra-fast
connectivity, and true cloud-based services. Read more
[PCMAG.COM]
TRANSFORMATION: Connecting Architecture to Business Strategy. Enterprise
Architecture, when done well, is a business transformation practice. Transforming a
business is not about slogans, mission statements, slick PowerPoints or in-depth
strategy documents. It’s about execution and actually changing business
operations. Read more
[COMPUTERWORLD.COM]

Enterprise News
BIG DATA: Much Ado about Hyperscale Architectures. Many organizations are
looking forward to the future of hyperscale networking. Even if you are not a cloud-
scale enterprise like Amazon and Google, you can still capitalize on the ability to
manage and manipulate large data stores over a highly commoditized, distributed
architecture. Read more
[ENTERPRISENETWORKINGPLANET.COM]
IT BUDGETS: The Enterprise Technologies To Watch In 2015. It is impressive how
much the enterprise technology landscape has changed in just a year. While some
priorities remain unchanged, important new players have emerged that business
and IT leaders must consider in their plans this year. Read more
[ZDNET.COM]

Enterprise News
C-SUITE GOALS: New Battleground In Enterprise Technology. Businesses today are
grabbling with the challenge of using new technologies and new sets of data to
improve performance, create excellent customer experiences, and empower their
staff to innovate and collaborate more fluidly, says Vishal Barapatre, CTO In2IT
Technologies South Africa. Read more
[IT-ONLINE.COM]

Enterprise Architecture
MODERNIZATION PROGRAM: DoD Portfolio Managers Critical of Business
Enterprise Architecture. DOD’s business enterprise architecture and process
reengineering efforts are not fully achieving the intended outcomes described in
statute, GAO has said after interviewing 24 military department portfolio managers
and interviewing other officials. Read more
[FEDWEEK.COM]
MySQL ALTERNATIVE: What’s Available And What’s Missing In Amazon Aurora.
Amazon is targeting AWS customers running large database workloads to drive the
adoption of Amazon Aurora, which became generally available on July 28, 2015. At
the database’s launch in November 2014, Andy Jassy, Senior VP, AWS claimed that
Amazon Aurora was at least as available, durable, and fault tolerant as the
enterprise editions of the proprietary commercial database engines and high-end
SANs available at a 10th of the cost. Read more
[TECHREPUBLIC.COM]

Enterprise Architecture
ENTERPRISE MOBILITY: Is It A Promise Unfulfilled? Despite the ascent of mobile
devices in the workplace, fewer than 25% of companies have built or bought a
mobile app beyond PIM apps. Despite the high demand from employees to access
corporate systems from mobile endpoints, enterprises are woefully unable to
deliver the “consumer-like” user experiences their employees expect. Read more
[SDTIMES.COM]
RED HAT SURVEY: Enterprise Mobility Hiring Demand Favors Developers. Time to
update those resumes. Mobile developers looking to land a new job have chosen
their career path wisely, suggests a new study from Red Hat. As a result, half of all
companies will be hiring mobile-savvy IT workers this year — and developers have
an edge. Read more
[CNET.COM]

Website Development
WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT: Learn How Two Different Disciplines Work
Together. Many people often lump web design and web development together as if
they were the same thing. They certainly sound similar enough to mean the same
thing, but they’re actually vastly different disciplines. Read more
[BIZCOMMUNITY.COM]
MOBILE DESIGN & SEO: Is Responsive Design A Ranking Factor? It could be said
that true success in Google is synonymous with having a successful mobile
presence. But what kind of mobile presence? When it comes to designing a mobile
website, there are three choices: responsive, adaptive and traditional “m.” mobile
sites. Read more
[SEARCHENGINELAND.COM]

Website Development
DYI DESIGN: 9 All-Purpose, Super-Easy Online Web Builders Let You Tell A Story Or
Sell Your Stuff. With all the Facebooking, Tumblring and tweeting, it’s a wonder
personal Websites still get built at all. For most people, short bursts of
communication with friends and family seem to be enough to satisfy most common
messaging impulses. Read more
[THENEXTWEB.COM]
UX-FOCUSED APPROACH: Be Sure To Balance SEO And User Experience In Your Web
Page Design. On Google’s list of philosophies, the very first one is “focus on the user
and all else will follow.” But in the past, many SEO professionals have ignored this
advice, crafting web pages designed primarily for Web crawlers, and crammed with
keywords. Read more
[ENTREPRENEUR.COM]

From the Blue Mountain Data Systems Blog
Three-Dimensional Governance for the CIO
https://www.bluemt.com/three-dimensional-governance-for-the-cio
7 Reasons to Take Control of IT Incidents
https://www.bluemt.com/7-reasons-to-take-control-of-it-incidents/
Breach Mitigation Response Time Too Long, Survey Says
https://www.bluemt.com/breach-mitigation-response-time-too-long-survey-
says/
Six Tactics for Cyberdefense
https://www.bluemt.com/six-tactics-for-cyberdefense/

Feds Report Mixed Responses to Shared Services
https://www.bluemt.com/feds-report-mixed-responses-to-shared-services
Federal Employees Are Not Security Experts
https://www.bluemt.com/federal-employees-are-not-security-experts
Survival Guide for Network Administrators
https://www.bluemt.com/survival-guide-for-network-administrators
DBaaS: OpenStack Trove Changes DB Management
https://www.bluemt.com/dbaas-openstack-trove-changes-db-management

Help Wanted: Certified Cybersecurity Professionals
https://www.bluemt.com/help-wanted-certified-cybersecurity-professionals
Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center Preview
https://www.bluemt.com/cyber-threat-intelligence-integration-center-preview/
Cloud Moves in 1-2-3
https://www.bluemt.com/cloud-moves-in-1-2-3/
Change Management for Disaster Recovery
https://www.bluemt.com/change-management-for-disaster-recovery/

Jeffersonian Advice For C-Suite Career Advancement
https://www.bluemt.com/jeffersonian-advice-for-c-suite-career-advancement/
Ways To Survive The “Mobile-Pocalypse”
https://www.bluemt.com/ways-to-survive-the-mobile-pocalypse/
Microsoft Cloud Services Receive FedRAMP Authority to Operate
https://www.bluemt.com/microsoft-cloud-services-receive-fedramp-authority-
to-operate/
Hiring Pentesters? Here Are 10 Things You Need to Know
https://www.bluemt.com/hiring-pentesters-here-are-10-things-you-need-to-
know/

Home Router Malware Alert
https://www.bluemt.com/home-router-malware-alert/
Threat Model Deconstruction
https://www.bluemt.com/threat-model-deconstruction/
Business Email Scam Nets $214 Million
https://www.bluemt.com/business-email-scam-nets-214-million/
How to Prevent Unauthorized Software from Taking Over Your Organization
https://www.bluemt.com/the-cios-guide-to-happy-end-users-2/

Digital Marketing Predictions for 2015
https://www.bluemt.com/digital-marketing-predictions-for-2015/
SDN: Network Administrator’s Friend or Foe?
https://www.bluemt.com/sdn-network-administrators-friend-or-foe/
Mobile Payments: A Must for Federal Agencies
https://www.bluemt.com/mobile-payments-a-must-for-federal-agencies/
Soft Skills Are A Must-Have For Careers In IT
https://www.bluemt.com/soft-skills-are-a-must-have-for-careers-in-it/

Security Risks Most Prevalent in Younger Workers
https://www.bluemt.com/security-risks-most-prevalent-in-younger-workers/
The Security World’s Maturation
https://www.bluemt.com/the-security-worlds-maturation/
Data Breach Concerns Keep CISOs Up At Night
https://www.bluemt.com/data-breach-concerns-keep-cisos-up-at-night/
Personalized Govt Equals Instant Gratification for Citizens
https://www.bluemt.com/personalized-govt-equals-instant-gratification-for-
citizens/

People-Centric Security
https://www.bluemt.com/people-centric-security/
Pentagon Tries BYOD To Strike Work/Life Balance
https://www.bluemt.com/pentagon-tries-byod-to-strike-worklife-balance/
Open Source Model Considered for MS Windows
https://www.bluemt.com/open-source-model-considered-for-ms-windows/
Open Internet: To Be or Not to Be?
https://www.bluemt.com/open-internet-to-be-or-not-to-be/

Malware Stays A Step Ahead Infecting One Third of Websites
https://www.bluemt.com/malware-stays-a-step-ahead-infecting-one-third-of-
websites/
Machine-Generated Data: Potential Goldmine for the CIO
https://www.bluemt.com/machine-generated-data-potential-goldmine-for-the-
cio/
Government Legacy Programs: Reuse vs. Replacement
https://www.bluemt.com/government-legacy-programs-reuse-vs-replacement/
It Takes a Whole Village to Protect Networks and Systems
https://www.bluemt.com/it-takes-a-whole-village-to-protect-networks-and-
systems/

Governance For the CIO
https://www.bluemt.com/governance-for-the-cio/
Help Desk Consolidation – Lessons Learned
https://www.bluemt.com/help-desk-consolidation-lessons-learned/
One Year Later, Companies Still Vulnerable to Heartbleed
https://www.bluemt.com/one-year-later-companies-still-vulnerable-to-
heartbleed/
Federal Projects Cultivate Worker Passion
https://www.bluemt.com/federal-projects-cultivate-worker-passion-2/

ABOUT US
Blue Mountain Data Systems Inc.
Blue Mountain Data Systems Inc. is dedicated to application
and systems development, electronic document management,
IT security support, and the automation of workflow processes.
Read more about our experience here:
>> http://bluemt.com/experience

Recent Experience
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Employee Benefits Security Administration
1994 to Present
Responsible to the Office of Technology and Information Systems for information
systems architecture, planning, applications development, networking,
administration and IT security, supporting the enforcement of Title I of the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act — ERISA. Within the EBSA, Blue
Mountain is responsible for design, development and support for its various
enforcement database management systems, as well as all case tracking and
customer service inquiry systems. Blue Mountain also provides IT security services
to the EBSA, in the form of FISMA Assessment and Authorization, System Security
Plans, Risk and vulnerability assessments, monitoring and investigation support.

MANAGEMENT
Paul T. Vesely
Founder, President, CEO and Principal Architect
Mr. Vesely is a recognized thought leader in systems
architecture and delivery, having designed and
delivered many enterprise wide information and
document management solutions. Mr. Vesely’s history
includes 33 years experience in the information
systems industry, with Unisys, Grumman, PRC and a
host of clients in both government and private sectors.

CONTACT US
Contact Us Today to Discuss Your Next IT Project
HEADQUARTERS
366 Victory Drive
Herndon, VA 20170
PHONE 703-502-3416
FAX 703-745-9110
EMAIL
paul@bluemt.com
WEB
https://www.bluemt.com

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