As the storm surge began to spill over and lay waste to New Orleans' levees, the flood waters wiped out much of the city's communications systems that the wind and rain hadn't destroyed.
Even amid the continued doubts of experts, and with only one approved technology vendor, the State Department is pressing forward with its electronic passport program.
Tucked into a quiet corner of the FOSE government IT trade show conference this week was a selection of products that many government customers use, but would prefer no one knows they buy.
The Homeland Security Department expects to begin a second phase of tests this summer issuing travel documents containing radio frequency identification technology to foreign visitors at three selected land entry ports into the United States, officials said today.
The Homeland Security Department expects to begin a second phase of tests this summer issuing travel documents containing radio frequency identification technology to foreign visitors at three selected land entry ports into the United States, officials said today.
Despite security concerns, federal agencies should pursue voice over IP technology because it will revolutionize how the government communicates, and reduce costs as well, according to several industry analysts.
The Homeland Security Department is adding new contracting staff to prepare for the Secure Border Initiative program and expects to have nine people leading the procurement, said Greg Giddens, program executive director.
Viisage Technology Inc. has won a contract increase from the State Department to continue producing highly secure credentials through the company's Trans Digital Technologies unit.
Voice over IP, the technology that uses Internet Protocol to transmit telephone calls over data networks instead of over the public switched telephone network, may be ready for enterprisewide deployments.
NeoScale Systems Inc.'s CryptoStor Tape is a high-speed tape security appliance that compresses, encrypts and digitally signs data as it goes to tape media or virtual tape, without disrupting backup processes.
NeoScale Systems Inc.'s CryptoStor Tape is a high-speed tape security appliance that compresses, encrypts and digitally signs data as it goes to tape media or virtual tape, without disrupting backup processes.
Existing privacy protections are outdated and inadequate to safeguard citizens from possible government intrusions made possible by new information technologies, according to the Center for Democracy and Technology.
The National Security Agency is now sponsoring intelligence data mining with massive databases that are growing as fast as four petabytes per month, according to a new report published by the Congressional Research Service.
More than a dozen U.S. IT companies are interested in bidding on the United Kingdom's proposed biometric national identity card scheme, according to anew report by a U.K. non-profit environmental advocacy group.
