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Unlocking the True Value of Encryption and Key Management Modes for Military Data Storage ApplicationsAuthor: Mercury Systems
Guns and guards alone can be used to protect high-value data, but it
is only a matter of a time before a sufficiently skilled and determined
enemy will find a way around these physical defenses. This method
is also impractical in situations where data is unattended outside the
walls of physical protection. The military system architect must design
for the worst-case scenario by assuming a storage device will eventually
fall into the hands of an enemy. Once this assumption is accepted, it is
the system architect's duty to implement a strategy where u ...
Multi-domain Operations and the Future or Training and SimulationAuthor: STS International, Inc
Successful training and simulation capabilities require integrated decision-making during tactical, operational, and strategic operations. The development of computer-based, interactive, and multi-media simulation training platforms must consider the impacts of decision-making at each echelon to achieve the desired training outcomes, ranging from the individual to large formations to joint staff. As the operational environment grows more complex with new technology and meta-data, the Joint Force simultaneously moves into Multi Domain Operations (MDO). MDO describes ...
Modern Storage Accelerates Data Insights, Speeding Innovation
Author: Pure Storage
Deep learning opens up new worlds of possibility in AI, enabled by advances in computational capacity, the explosion in data, and the advent of deep neural networks. But data is evolving quickly and legacy storage systems are not keeping up.
Read this MIT Technology Review custom paper to learn how advanced AI applications require a modern all-flash storage infrastructure that is built specifically to work with high-powered analytics, helping to accelerate business outcomes.
Author: Pure Storage
Deep learning opens up new worlds of possibility in AI, enabled by advances in computational capacity, the explosion in data, and the advent of deep neural networks. But data is evolving quickly and legacy storage systems are not keeping up.
Read this MIT Technology Review custom paper to learn how advanced AI applications require a modern all-flash storage infrastructure that is built specifically to work with high-powered analytics, helping to accelerate business outcomes.
AI, Analytics, and the Future of Your EnterpriseAuthor: Pure Storage
Is your organization capitalizing on the full potential of data analytics? In this big data primer, you will learn about the 3 key challenges facing organizations today: managing overwhelming amounts of data, leveraging new complex tools/technologies, and developing the necessary skills and infrastructure. However with a "tuned for everything" storage solution that is purpose-built for modern analytics, you can confidently harness the power of your data.
O'Reilly Deep Learning BookAuthor: Pure Storage
Although interest in machine learning has reached a high point, lofty expectations often scuttle projects before they get very far. How can machine learning-especially deep neural networks-make a real difference in your organization? This hands-on guide not only provides the most practical information available on the subject, but also helps you get started building efficient deep learning networks.
Dive into machine learning concepts in general, as well as deep learning in particular
Understand how deep networks evolved from neural network fundamentals
Exp ...
Intelsat-29e Interference Mitigation TestingAuthor: Intelsat General Corporation
Cyber threats are growing more advanced, with networks constantly under attack from entities in search of critical data to deny transmission or steal information. Intelsat EpicNG delivers reliability, security, performance and the flexibility to keep pace with changing geographic and mission requirements. Intelsat EpicNG's advanced digital payload creates an enhanced environment for battling interference and for mitigating jamming, assuring government organizations have coverage and providing connectivity for any operation. Intelsat EpicNG satellites successfully provid ...
2018 Trends in Cybersecurity: Building Effective Security TeamsAuthor: CompTIA
As cybersecurity has become more complex, traditional methods do not account for the wide range of issues related to securing corporate data and handling privacy concerns. New technology, improved processes and broad workforce education are all required for a modern security posture. Adopting a new approach requires cultural change within an organization, but it also requires a diverse set of skills. A new report by CompTIA examines the ways that businesses are building security teams, using internal and external resources, to assemble the expertise needed for security ...
Turning Data into a Strategic Asset for the WarfighterAuthor: A3 Missions
Federal agencies increasingly need data-derived insights to address complex challenges, deliver mission success, and optimize resources for maximum effectiveness and efficiency. Whether the challenge is to contain a fast-spreading disease, model and monitor network activity, rapidly assess a battlefield, uncover fraud, or efficiently maintain a fleet of ships, the rapid exploitation of data is essential to getting the job done and providing situational understanding.
Formed in 2015, A3 Missions is a Georgia based LLC that specializes in Data Center Infrastructur ...
Simplify the Secure DesktopAuthor: Belkin International
Most secure KVMs are built to support a particular video standard while a large agency may have three or more different computing platforms with various video interfaces. This makes it extremely hard to properly manage secure KVM devices throughout their lifecycle, creating unnecessary burdens on IT departments and ultimately wasting time and budget. Deployment costs go up, IT managers lose the uniformity across their domain that they seek, and long-term maintenance costs become an unknown liability.
The Belkin Universal Secure KVMs have been engineered to solve ...
Best Practices in Enterprise Asset Management: How to Maintain Non-Intrusive Inspection Systems at a High Operational Availability RateAuthor: STS International, Inc
Over the past five (5) years STS International has developed EAM best practices to maintain Non-Intrusive Inspection Systems (NIIS) at a high operational availability rate with reduced costs. Specifically, STS highlights the following innovative EAM approaches to achieving mission success:
• Reliability Centered Maintenance approach
• Asset, logistics and reliability database
• Customized Logistics Information System (LIS) coupled with business analytics software
BIG DATA STRATEGIES: Ensuring Compliance, Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryAuthor: Commvault
Data here, data there, data everywhere. This small rhyme captures a big concern for IT teams: Current fragmented data storage practices create complexity for meeting compliance requirements and assuring business continuity and disaster recovery.
Typically, government data is stored in many siloed locations and forms, including on-premises servers and storage systems, off-premises backup to tape services and cloud repositories. No single, holistic view exists across departments to truly know what data is available and where it resides. When it is difficult to trac ...
BIG DATA STRATEGIES: Protecting Information from Theft and TamperingAuthor: Commvault
Cybercriminals have long profited by selling stolen financial and personal data. Of late, they've added another alarming technique: encrypting an organization's data where it's stored and demanding payment for the recovery key.
This type of cyberattack, called ransomware, is rising: One study indicates that a business is attacked every 40 seconds. The public sector is a target for ransomware because small agencies, local governments and educational institutions are less likely to have strong security measures and full data backups.
Many are also working w ...
Architecting a Hybrid Data EcosystemAuthor: Denodo Inc
One of the strongest trends in data architecture today is toward the hybrid data ecosystem.
This is a complex, multiplatform environment where data is physically distributed across many database servers and file systems, with storage both on premises and in the cloud.
Hybrid data ecosystems present many challenges. Users find it difficult to wrap their heads around the extreme complexity. Data moves from platform to platform relentlessly as users repurpose data for multiple use cases-making it difficult to govern data and track its lineage.
Despite ...
Building Cyber Resilient TechnologiesAuthor: Envistacom
For a computing paradigm, "Resilience is the ability to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of faults and challenges to normal operation". Resilience is related to survivability, which builds on the disciplines of security, fault tolerance, safety, reliability, and performance. This paper focuses on cyber security approaches to achieve cyber resilience when developing technologies, systems, networks, and platforms.
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The Key to Beating Perpetual CyberattacksAuthor: ManTech
The cyber domain is like any other military or intelligence theater of operations: Success requires highly skilled, well-trained and experienced professionals.
Technology in the form of advanced systems, tools and software are indispensable, and staying ahead of adversaries requires constant innovation. But just like any weapons system, ordnance or strategic plan, the best technology is of limited value without the people to make it work at its highest level. We recruit and train pilots for new generations of aircraft; we must do the same for cyber warriors.
Getting smarter about perimeter and border protection with advanced analyticsAuthor: Axis Communications, Inc
Analytically enhanced IP video provides the right information at the right time to support efficient operations and optimal situational awareness, especially to those looking to maximize the use of security personnel, identify risks and secure borders and perimeters. If you're struggling to quickly identify and isolate relevant data captured within endless hours of video, or need to instantly detect real-time behaviors or activity... Download the whitepaper to read more!
Military and Government are Benefiting from a Fast and Effective Encryption SolutionAuthor: IMPRES Technology Solutions
Forces deployed around the world need the ability to transmit securely on their networks, and a fabric-based architecture that removes media access control addresses from a network while integrating with different levels of security, topology and protocols can meet this need.
CSOI is a fabric-based architecture that removes media access control addresses from a network while integrating with different levels of security, topology and protocols. It overlays existing addresses without changing a network's physical architecture and it permits rerouting and reprioritizat ...
Automate the Data Fusion of Publicly Available Information (PAI) & Existing Authoritative Data with SAP HANA ®Author: SAP NS2
Publicly Available Information is one form of non-traditional data that can offer a treasure trove of readily available data that can help analysts and mission planners across all of the battlespace domains. However, just getting additional raw data streams, when analysts are already overloaded with the massive amounts of data they already have, would only add to the problem.
The answer to this challenge is using automation to find the right data, validate its trustworthiness; then correlate with existing content. The outcome: a complete picture of all the releva ...
Today’s Insider Threat – It’s Real!Author: Great Lakes Case and Cabinet Co., Inc.
As commercial corporations and government agencies continue to spend countless millions of dollars on protecting their most valued asset (data) from outside cyber-attacks and ever so increasing insider threat potential, not nearly enough attention has been given to physical security. There is typically little consideration for protecting and limiting the unmonitored access to the equipment housing the data. Over the last decade, a tremendous emphasis has been placed on the cyber security community to stand up to elaborate attacks; threat and security operation centers, ...
Why Ka-band has Emerged as the Best Path Forward for AISRAuthor: Inmarsat Government
Global intelligence gathering operations are increasingly conducted from airborne platforms. Effectively employing these assets requires globally-portable, fully-connected and efficient beyond line of sight (BLOS) connectivity. As the military is evaluating its future data and communication technology to support these missions, Ka-band has emerged as the preferred path forward for the Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (AISR) community.
