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Scott Vanstone | Cryptography thrown an elliptic curve

08/25/08; Vol. 27, No. 21 GCN Interview: One of the inventors of elliptic curve cryptography talks about ECC’s emerging role in providing strong security for public-key infrastructures.

Paul Scheihing | DOE wants more of less

08/18/08; Vol. 27, No. 20 The technology manager of the Energy Department’s Industrial Technologies Program discusses the government’s current and future energy-saving plans.

Ken Cochrane | Identity's the key to a better Web

08/04/08; Vol. 27, No. 19 GCN Interview: As CIO of an organization with more than 470,000 employees, 1,600 points of service, and a mission to serve a far-flung population, Cochrane has seen his role take on new dimensions as Canada attempts to harness Web 2.0 technologies.

Garth Gibson | Faster storage systems through parallelism

07/28/08; Vol. 27, No. 18 GCN Interview: Garth Gibson, one of the inventors of the RAID storage system discusses the development of the Parallel Network File System protocol, an effort to standardize parallel operations.

Bob Farber | Dealing with the insider threat

07/21/08; Vol. 27, No. 17 GCN Interview: Symark International’s chief operating officer discusses insider threats, effective identity management and why single sign-on might not be such a good idea.

Ed Amoroso | The big picture of network security

07/07/08; Vol. 27, No. 16 GCN Interview: AT&T’s chief security officer talks about the advantages of pushing security onto the network, where it can keep things such as spam traffic at bay.

Tom Simmons | Virtualization and the greening of IT

06/23/08; Vol. 27, No. 15 GCN Interview: Tom Simmons, area vice president of federal systems at Citrix Systems, which offers virtualization technology, spoke recently with GCN about the challenges and opportunities of green IT.

Lauri Almann | Lessons from the cyberattacks on Estonia

06/16/08; Vol. 27, No. 14 GCN Interview: Estonia’s permanent undersecretary of Defence talks about the lessons learned from last year’s cyberattacks on the country’s networks and what every country can do to protect against similar attacks.

Robert Tapella | GPO’s balanced mix of digital and paper

06/09/08; Vol. 27, No. 13 Public printer Robert Tapella says ink on paper isn’t going away, but digital content will take a larger share of the Government Printing Office’s operations.

Michael Peterson | Taking command in cyberspace

05/26/08; Vol. 27, No. 12 GCN Interview: The Air Force's chief information officer sat down with GCN recently to talk about creating online demilitarized zones and other steps to thwart cyberattacks.

Lynn McNulty | Information security goes pro

05/05/08; Vol. 27, No. 10 GCN Interview: During 30 years in government service and more than a decade as a consultant, Lynn McNulty has been recognized as a leader in making information security a profession rather than a job. Most recently, the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium made him the third Fellow of (ISC)2.

Natalie Givans | Security gets into the mix

04/28/08; Vol. 27, No. 9 GCN Interview: Givans, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton’s information and mission assurance and resilience group, gained experience during her career in analyzing and designing security for a variety of government and commercial information and communication systems.

Jan Popkin | Enterprise architecture: a journey, not a destination

04/14/08; Vol. 27, No. 8 Jan Popkin a master at describing and documenting current and desired relationships between information technology and an organization’s business and management processes, and he remains on top of enterprise architecture trends and developments.

Marc LeGare | A link to hostile environments

03/03/08; Vol. 27, No. 5 GCN Interview: As CEO of Proactive Communications, LeGare has drawn lessons from providing satellite communications for U.S. military forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as in the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina.

Daniel Rainey | Online system takes a quick route to resolving disputes

02/18/08; Vol. 27, No. 4 GCN Interview: The chief of the Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services discusses how collaboration technology helps his organization resolve disputes more quickly.

Molly O'Neill | EPA the Web 2.0 way

02/04/08; Vol. 27, No. 3 PEOPLE DEMAND good data, especially when it comes to matters of human health and the environment. Environmental Protection Agency CIO Molly O’Neill spoke with GCN about a successful wiki-based pilot involving the Puget Sound Leadership Council, in addition to the challenges agencies face handling large amounts of data.

Ben Shneiderman | Visualize data

01/21/08; Vol. 27, No. 2 Are computers making everyone more visual? Perhaps, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing, according to Ben Shneiderman, professor of computer science at the University of Maryland.

Karen Evans | The straight story on OMB’s Internet connection policy

01/07/08; Vol. 27, No. 1 GCN Interview: The Office of Management and Budget’s administrator for e-government and information technology clarifies the goals of the Trusted Internet Connections initiative.

Jeffrey Sorenson | Army’s long march to collaboration

11/19/07; Vol. 26, No. 29 GCN Interview: If improving the Army’s information technology posture depends in part on better IT acquisition, then Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, the Army’s nominee for staff chief information officer, has the credentials to lead the charge.

Seth Meltzer | Researching the future

11/05/07; Vol. 26, No. 28 GCN Interview: IRS researcher Seth Meltzer discusses multicore systems, the secrets of cryptography and barriers to smart-card use. He’s written a book on cryptography, “Cryptography Decrypted,” now available for free on his Web site.

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