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- Obama upholds Bush laptop search policy - with new safeguards
- Really at this point, can anybody be surprised to read this, in today's Washington Post: The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic...
- Tags: Policy, Laptop Computer, Obama, Government, Notebooks, Vertical Industries, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-28
- VeriSign PKI-Based Certificates Are Rock Solid: From the Tumultuous Launch of the Integrated Cargo System to Today
- Representing 250 customs brokers and freight forwarding businesses in Australia, the Customs Brokers and Forwarders Council of Australia Inc. CBFCA is an industry association that represents members' interests in various Australian Customs and Border Protection Service consultative forums - providing members with guidance, representation, services and access to the latest...
- Tags: VeriSign Inc., PKI, Security
- Case studies 2009-06-17
- DHS searching laptops at border
- The Post has the scoop on new DHS policies that allow agents to confiscate laptops at the border. Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing,...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Laptop Computer, Post, Notebooks, Real Estate, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- IT failures roundup: Airports; jail system; angry travellers
- To describe more failures than one lone blogger could possibly investigate himself, here's a new type of post: the IT failures roundup. I'll periodically report on interesting failures using a brief, overview format. JFK airport baggage handling system goes down. American Airlines scored...
- Tags: Software, Information Technology, Failure, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Networking, Management, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- Web Gateway Strategies for Government: Moving Beyond the TIC Deadline
- What are government agencies, like yours, doing to meet the Trusted Internet Connections TIC deadline and establish a strategic Internet gateway architecture to meet future security, regulatory and application demands? Listen to this podcast to learn how Blue Coat customers like the Department of Homeland Security's US Customs & Border...
- Tags: Strategy, Web, Gateway Inc., Blue Coat Systems Inc., Podcasts, Government, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing
- Download resources 2008-07-22
- FBI: Counterfeit Cisco routers risk "IT subversion"
- An internal Federal Bureau of Investigation presentation states that counterfeit Cisco routers imported from China may cause unexpected failures in American networks. The equipment could also leave secure systems open to attack through hidden backdoors. The scope of the problem is broad and results from a complicated supply chain originating...
- Tags: Cisco Router, Router, Network, Information Technology, FBI, Cisco Systems Inc., Hardware, Federal Government, Routers & Switches, Networking, Government, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicion
- 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicionWhat about external drives and encryption?Do they have the right to search external drives? What if data on the laptop or drive is encrypted?RE: 9th Circuit: Feds can search laptops without suspicionIllegal and it's time we stop allowing the freedoms from illegal search...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, suspicion
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- ZDNet UK's list of top 10 IT failures
- As you might imagine, I'm a sucker for failure trivia. ZDnet UK has compiled a list of the top ten IT disasters of all time. Although I question the inclusion of some items on the list, it's worth a peek: 1. Faulty Soviet early warning system...
- Tags: Airbus A380, Airbus S.A.S., Centre, Dell Computer Corp., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Information Technology, Laptop Computer, Management, Michael Krigsman, Russians, Software, Tools & Techniques
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- UPS debuts customs clearance and international returns solutions for small businesses
- Read a full transcript of the discussion. Sponsor: UPS. As the world becomes "flatter" and globalization drives new opportunities for international commerce, how do small- and medium-size businesses SMBs jump on the bandwagon? The Internet allows any business to gather orders and process...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Shipment, Customer, Small Business, Small And Medium Business, Reality, Smb/Sme, Globalization, Podcasts, Strategy, Management, Internet, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- LAX IT failure: leaps of faith don't work
- Recently, I described an IT failure at the Los Angeles International Airport that caused 20,000 passengers to be stranded while waiting to be processed through U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP. According to the LA Times and InformationWeek, the failure was caused by a simple equipment malfunction, which was...
- Tags: Information Technology, Backup, Sprint Communications, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-18
- IT failure in action: LAX
- CNN and the LA Times both report failure of the international arrivals screening computers at Los Angeles International Airport failed. As a result, 20,000 arriving international passengers had to wait many hours while the system was repaired.According to CNN:A major switch in the system, which contains names of arriving passengers...
- Tags: Information Technology, System, Failure, Business Continuity, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-08-12
- EU concerned over traveler profiling
- The European Commission raised concerns about DHS screening program that creates risk profiles for every air traveler. Commissioners requested confirmation from the US that data shared is handled in accordance with a pact the EU and US signed in October, The Washington Post reports. Vice President Franco Frattini...
- Tags: DHS, Government technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- According to a Washington Post article, the Department of Homeland Security violated a congressional funding ban when it continued to develop a computerized program that creates risk assessments of travelers entering and leaving the United States. "Clearly the law prohibits testing or development" of such computer programs, said...
- Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- IG launches in-depth review of DHS Advise program
- The Department of Homeland Security is rolling out a $40 million plan to datamine to find terrorist threat information. Called Advise - which of course stands for Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement - the program is now facing intense scrutiny from the departments inspector general, Government Computer News...
- Tags: Business intelligence, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, data mining
- Blog posts 2006-11-15
- Boeing picked for SBINet
- Homeland Security has made its choice for the Secure Border Initiative, after months of frenzied lobbying by defense contractors. The winner is Boeing, Federal Computer Week reports. The SBINet contract is worth $2.5 billion. Boeing’s winning proposal calls for the installation of 1,800 towers along the northern and...
- Tags: SBInet
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- US wants more EU flight data
- In the aftermath of the intercepted British bombings, the Department of Homeland Security is looking to expand the US' data-sharing agreement with the EU, The Washington Post reports. DHS wants to share the data longer and more freely than they are allowed under the current agreement. The...
- Tags: agreement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Blog posts 2006-08-23
- Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'd
- Police Blotter: Laptop border searches OK'dThat or the PGP versionPGP Pro 9 also has whole disk encryption and it's available now. The Vista version is months away. If you must have the protection now, it is available today.Experience has shown that, when it works, it's pretty well transparent. Experience has...
- Tags: SECURITY, Vista Version, TrueCrypt, child pornography, privacy, OK'd, Wrong!, password, Sounds like Vista, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2006-07-26
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection - Protecting Our Southern Border Against the Terrorist Threat
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security DHS. U.S. Customs and Border Protection have taken a number of steps to increase security across our borders during the "period of increased risk" leading up to the presidential election. These actions and...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, CBP, Security
- White papers 2004-08-20
- Winter Corp. publishes the largest databases
- The Winter TopTen Program identifies the world's leading database implementations based on database size, most rows/records and highest workload achieved. The program recognizes the database practitioners whose accomplishments are advancing the boundaries of database size and power. It also documents the products, platforms and architectures that are operating successfully at...
- Tags: decision support system, database
- Blog posts 2003-12-11
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