Electrosoft is actively participating in the Integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR) initiative between the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the US Department of Defense (DoD). The iEHR initiative represents a monumental opportunity for partnership and collaboration between the DoD and…

The National Institute of Standards (NIST) has developed guidelines for cloud computing and cloud security based upon extensive research for a reference architecture which includes taxonomies that define roles, services and service deployment models. Their approach has been to invite…

The Flame virus uses a MD5 collision attack to generate a rogue Microsoft digital code-signing certificate. With the certificate in hand, the virus passes the malware to Windows computers as an update from Microsoft. It is recommended that certificate authorities stop signing digital…

May's Lunch N' Learn included an in-depth look at NIST Special Publication 800-130, "A Framework for Designing Cryptographic Key Management Systems." Some of the topics covered during the presentation included an introduction to cyptography and cryptographic services, Cryptographic Key…

Guest Speaker Ron Martin, the Executive Director of Open Security Exchange was gracious enough to come present, "Adopting FICAM Version 2 Best Practices for PACS federation and OMB M-11-11." The presentation covered the essential elements of FICAM version 2 and what has changed since version 1…

President and CEO Dr. Sarbari Gupta discussed PKI fundamentals during our most recent lunch n' learn event. Some of the topics covered during the presentation included public key infrastructure and its architectural entities (certificate authority, subscriber, relying party, and repository),…