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U.S. Army officials highlight three new innovations tested during a Warfighter Exercise.

The Army's data-driven transformation emphasizes cybersecurity, hardware protection and AI integration.

The team that provides combatant commands with lean, agile, responsive and collaborative thinking has taken on a mission of assessment and analysis of an operational and strategic magnitude. Its goal is to integrate information and analysis into the common operational picture quickly enough to get inside a commanding officer’s decision-making cycle. To achieve this objective, the group is relying on expertise that is available not only in the military but also in industry and academia.

I know some guys who are really good at external validation of enterprise security posture. There are some folks so good that nothing will totally stop them. The history of computer science makes me think world-class-best folks like that will always be with us and there will never be a system that is perfectly defendable. But still, there are steps you can take to dramatically enhance the security of your enterprise. I've reviewed some of these before, like ensuring endpoints are protected from malware, using defense in depth to enhance your security posture, mitigating IPv6 security threats, and studying the threat. With this post I'd like to mention another capability that belongs in your defense in depth tool suite: the Microsoft Security news, products, updates and tools site at http://microsoft.com/security The security site at Microsoft is a way for enterprise and home users to tap into three key security centers: The Microsoft Security Engineering Center, The Microsoft Security Response Center, and The Microsoft Malware Protection Center. It is good to know all three of those, but the best way to interface with them, in my opinion, is through the security site...

New Years is always a good time for top ten stories so I thought I would go this way for the January edition of Mazz-INT. I quickly realized, however, there is little new I that could add to stories such as Wikileaks, the failed jihadist bomb attacks, intelligence issues in Afghanistan, budgetary pressures on the IC, or the swap out of Clapper for Blair as DNI that would pique this readership's interest.