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Homefront Help: DVD Helps Children of Deployed Parents

The USO in conjunction with the Trevor Romain Foundation has released a free, animated movie titled "With You All the Way! Dealing With Deployment." The DVD addresses preparing for deployment, staying connected during the separation and planning for reunion. The movie also helps civilian children understand the challenges their friends in the military community face when a loved one is deployed.

Guest Blog: Cases in How to Practice Safe Social Computing

Paul Strassmann continues from last week's "Gentlemen Do Not Open Attachments" with illustrations of how to implement safe social computing using virtual computers.

Jacoby To Direct U.N. Military Strategy

Lt. Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr., USA, has been nominated for appointment as director, Strategic Plans and Policy, J-5; senior member, U.S. Delegation to the U.N.

Brown Now Electrosonic GM

Paul Brown has been named general manager of service for Electrosonic, Dartford, England.

InternetWorks: Internet File Storage

The hard-hitting storms that beleaguered parts of the United States this year taught the East Coast a valuable lesson-sometimes you just can't get to work. But with immovable deadlines tasks still must be accomplished. One way offices can continue to function with personnel in disparate locations (assuming they all have power) is by storing documents in locations other than organizations' computer drives. Using the Internet as a storage device enables people to continue to move work forward, even if they can't get out the front door.

Charting the Way to Defense Information Assurance

The U.S. Defense Department has developed an information assurance policy chart in an attempt to pull together the department’s diverse information assurance policies under a single umbrella document. The web-based chart provides hyperlinks directly to policies so that a user can identify and trace their origins as well as track changes that occur.

Guest Blog: Gentlemen Do Not Open Attachments

DoD policy recently opened access to Internet web pages from NIPRNET computers. This policy is unenforceable and is insecure. It allows the inadvertent inclusion of attachments for downloading of malware from where it can further propagate across DoD networks to subvert security.

CAR Talk

What do bad brakes, invading termites, leaky dams and equally leaky military networks have in common? They are conditions that can result in significant damage if not addressed but are easily avoided through attention, upkeep and paying attention to Certification and Accreditation (C&A) Process, DIACAP, resulting in an Approval to Operate (ATO) or an Interim Approval to Operate (IATO). . There are a number of people who will tell you that keeping them in good IA order is too much work and/or too costly. These are usually the people who have “more important things to worry about” or MITT-WA.

Defense Department CIO Stresses the Benefits of Change

"If you imagine Second Life is just a game, you're missing the point."--David Wennergren, Defense Department Chief Information Officer

Internet Author Ponders Future Trends

When the Internet was originally created for Defense Department use, Cerf says that it was not designed to perform any particular operation besides moving bits from point to point. Because the requirements were so broad that it allowed the system to be tremendously flexible and scalable. "What is amazing is that the protocols have actually scaled [over the last 40 years]," he shared.

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Homefront Help: DVD Helps Children of Deployed Parents

Guest Blog: Cases in How to Practice Safe Social Computing

Jacoby To Direct U.N. Military Strategy

Brown Now Electrosonic GM

InternetWorks: Internet File Storage

Charting the Way to Defense Information Assurance

Guest Blog: Gentlemen Do Not Open Attachments

CAR Talk

Defense Department CIO Stresses the Benefits of Change

Internet Author Ponders Future Trends