In the last few months of 2013 and leading into 2014, Electrosoft seized the opportunity to partner with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) in updating the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (the “Framework”). This collaborative venture spanning across the Federal…

The key requirement to success in healthcare information technology has been interoperability. Interoperability offers efficient yet secure means for IT systems and software applications to communicate and exchange patient data. In order for the healthcare industry to move toward preventive care…

Cybersecurity touches almost every aspect of modern life and permeates many fields beyond technology, including homeland security, law enforcement, national security, foreign policy, the economy, and even emergency response. In developing the Fiscal Year 2014 Cybersecurity budget, the nation…

The confirmation on June 6, 2013 by the US National Security Agency (NSA) that it has been secretly collecting on-line data that originated overseas from non-U.S. citizens, has re-ignited an old controversy about the growth of domestic surveillance by the U. S. Federal Government.[1]  This…

What is a Cloud?

There has been much “hype” about cloud and a lot of confusion, especially regarding risk management and security concerns. The groundwork is quietly being laid for security and privacy services in public cloud ecosystems. The collaboration and …

A few years ago, I drafted the first version of a paper for the Federal Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority (FPKIPA), entitled “The Realized Value of the Federal Public Key Infrastructure (FPKI).” At that time, we declared it mature and proudly documented its value to the Federal PKI…