Peter Jacobs

In the push toward IT Modernization, agencies are quickly moving away from stovepiped legacy apps and outdated process. But what are they moving toward? Edge computing – putting processing power…

A lot has changed over the past ten years. In the past, when it came to putting together a big picture view of cyberattacks, threat vectors, and other key pieces…

The good news for federal CIOs: the latest FITARA scorecard shows that, for the most part, the 24 agencies tracked either improved their scores or held steady; only 4 agencies…

Between insider threats and an array of attacks from bad actors and nation-states, the government is being assaulted on multiple fronts simultaneously. This requires approaches that can adapt, anticipate, and…

One major effect of digital transformation is the move from centralized data capture, storage and analytics to wherever the user happens to be. A driving force in this “edge computing”…

Digital transformation is all about making IT systems more responsive, flexible, and secure. But like most things in the IT world, the reality of “change everything while keeping the machine…

There are seismic changes across the federal IT landscape, with new technologies, such as AI and machine learning, dominating the conversation. But day-to-day IT operations often focus on keeping the…

In a relentlessly connected world, it’s become harder and harder to avoid cyber risks. The risks aren’t just from the obvious sources of attack on government, corporate, and personal systems…

With both military and commercial satellite communications now residing within the Air Force Space Command, the opportunities for a long-envisioned, wideband SATCOM architecture are coming closer to reality. The Department…

CISOs, IT leadership and the public at large tend to focus on the visible sources of cyber threat, such as viruses and malware, phishing and spoofing, and denial-of-service attacks. But…