AFEI Board Member Publishes Again!

Dave Linthicum, AFEI Board Member, has published his newest book on Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence.

He provided an Industry perspective at the 2010 DoD Enterprise Architecture Conference in May.  Conference web site

Dave will facilitate a half day workshop on “Cloud Computing Survivor’s Guide”, July 30^th in Alexandria, VA. Event details http://afei.org/events/0A03/Pages/default.aspx

DNI Assessment of Cyber Threats

Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, told members of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee that “in the dynamic of cyberspace, the technology balance right now favors malicious actors rather than legal actors, and is likely to continue that way for quite some time.”

Read the FCW article here.

Watch the Testomony on C-SPAN here.

Cyber Theft in China 

NY Times Article on Hacking and Cyber Crime claims "Internet security experts say China has legions of hackers" who are "behind an escalating number of global attacks to steal credit card numbers, commit corporate espionage and even wage online warfare on other nations."

The article also syas that "For less than $6, one can even purchase the “Hacker’s Penetration Manual.”

Read It

IT Spending in Federal Budget

According to Federal Computer Week President Obama's newest budget contains $79.4 billion in spending on information technology projects for fiscal 2011, a 1.2 percent increase from what he proposed in fiscal 2010 and a slight decrese from the $80.6 billion the 2010 budget actually allocated.

The administration has proposed increasing the number of major IT projects from 781 in FY10 to 809 in FY11 at a cost of $40.4 billion, according to the the FCW article.  Read It