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 <title><![CDATA[When data walks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department probably is not the only agency whose security and privacy policies have gaping holes. The recent theft of data on 26.5 million veterans sends agencies a chilling message: Lock down your own data security and privacy policies immediately or you might wind up with confidential data walking out your own door.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD to build EA from ground up]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense officials say the department is too big to push its Business Enterprise Architecture down to all the military services and agencies. So, they&#146;re promoting a federated approach that focuses on the component agencies. Defense components must adopt an organized structure that will align business rules and processes with the BEA. The Business Transformation Agency issued a draft of this structure, called the Business Mission Area Federation Strategy, last week.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Test Drive: Vista makes new strides]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month, Microsoft Corp. officially released the second beta version of its much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system. It&#146;s built to be a more polished preview of the OS that will ship for enterprises late this year, and for consumers early next year. Based on reviews in the GCN Lab, Vista is a compelling product that agencies will want to start evaluating sooner rather than later.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: VA's data spill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There is every reason to be disturbed by the Veterans Affairs Department&#146;s loss of personal data affecting as many as 26.5 million veterans. But most disturbing is how vulnerable other agencies are to the same kind of loss.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mike DaConta | The new face of information sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why they name laws after children, such as &#147;Jessica&#146;s Law&#148;? The reason is that complex issues need a simple, recognizable &#147;face&#148; to make them real for a wide audience. This is exactly the kind of catalyst that information sharing needs.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Letter to the editor | FISMA quandary]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I both agree and disagree with William Jackson&#146;s commentary on FISMA and security. Having worked with federal agencies on both security architecture and FISMA compliance, I see a true divergence in opinions concerning FISMA.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Comm catches up with units in the field]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The speed with which military forces conduct operations in Iraq revealed a gap in command and control: Units essentially were outrunning their communications capabilities. Lower-level commanders were unable to access real-time data while on the move. When word got back to the Joint Systems Integration Command, a team of analysts and engineers set out to find technologies that could plug that gap.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has proposed long-term measures, including a new internal oversight office, to prevent recurring problems that recently forced it to stop processing security clearances for industry, a high-level department official testified before Congress recently.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Vivisimo goes beyond FirstGov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Still riding a high from the launch of FirstGov.gov&#146;s new search engine, the company behind the search technology, officers of Vivisimo Inc. of Pittsburgh stopped by GCN to talk about the latest version of its Velocity platform.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Vista Beta 2: Getting there]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month Microsoft group product manager Greg Sullivan brought by a freshly burned disk of Windows Vista Beta 2, which he characterized as &#147;a major improvement to the February Vista [Community Technology Preview].&#148;]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Advances in Section 508]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act is due for an upgrade and Michael Takemura, head of Hewlett-Packard&#146;s Accessibility Program Office, sounds excited about the potential changes.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | Office calls on a BlackBerry]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ascendent Systems, which is part of Research in Motion Ltd., has developed the Ascendent Voice Mobility client for BlackBerry. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | Oracle apps maintain certs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Oracle Corp. last month said its Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.10 and Oracle&#146;s PeopleSoft Enterprise 8.9 financial management applications had passed Federal Systems Integration Office testing. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | MPC all-in-one dual-core]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[MPC Computers of Nampa, Idaho, has rolled out a new high-end version of its ClientPro all-in-one desktop.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | IBM grid management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Grid users take note: IBM Corp. just rolled out software called Batch-on-Grid at last month&#146;s Grid World 2006 in Toyko.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hord Tipton | Interior redesign]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Interior Department CIO Hord Tipton has wrestled with some of the most daunting challenges in federal IT: When he took the job in an acting role in mid-2002, the department was reeling from a December 2001 court order that disconnected almost all Interior systems from the Internet.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Wait a minute Mr. Postman!]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Neither snow, nor rain nor gloom of night will keep the e-mail from making its appointed rounds. Unfortunately, over 90 percent of that e-mail is complete junk, so perhaps if it were just a little bit afraid of the dark, we wouldn&#146;t be drowning in so much spam.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Barracuda Spam Firewall 400]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Barracuda Spam Firewall 400 represents the right way to build an appliance-based e-mail firewall. It was the only unit in this review that was truly plug-and-play and was up and running with a live mail stream in less than five minutes.|GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice|]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Symantec Mail Security 8240]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Considering Symantec has been in the antivirus business for many years, it was no surprise the Mail Security 8240 did well at keeping viruses out of our lab network.|GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice|]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | E-mail appliances: How we evaluated them]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The GCN Lab partnered with Spirent Communications of Calabasas, Calif. to test anti-spam and antivirus network appliances.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Tumbleweed MailGate Appliance 3.0]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Tumbleweed MailGate Appliance 3.0 shows off some of the best and worst features of an e-mail security appliance.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | BlueCat Meridius 1000 Email Gateway Appliance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[We had a fair amount of trouble setting up the Meridius 1000. The configuration interface forces you to use a set of little blue buttons on the front of the device to enter its new IP address. But we found these buttons very unresponsive.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Proofpoint Messaging Security Gateway P600]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Proofpoint had one of the Reviewer&#146;s Choice products in last year&#146;s roundup, but that was before we started judging ease of setup and maintenance.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | IronPort C100 Email Security Appliance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[We had an interesting problem setting up the IronPort C100, although it was more our fault than anything else.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_14/40915-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Suffering from socially transmitted bookmarks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;I don&#146;t know why they call it del.icio.us,&#148; the Rat recently ranted to his wife after another day of beating his head against the results of a security audit.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[THE COMMUNITY: Taking the lead]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The recent GCN IT Leadership Conference in Washington addressed the various aspects of a government manager&#146;s job, from long-range visions to the nuts and bolts of day-to-day operations.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[And another thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Policing the Internet is not like walking a beat in the old neighborhood&#151;the Web spans the globe, with more dark alleys and corners to hide in than you can imagine.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_14/40934-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN coverage of VA's loss of veterans personal data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The recent theft of personal data on as many as 26.5 million veterans has sent government agencies a chilling message about the need to take new data security measures to prevent confidential data from being compromised or lost.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_14/40901-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Justice awards bellwether case system contract]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department has awarded a $42 million contract to Computer Sciences Corp. for the Litigation Case Management System, a standardized environment that is intended improve management of legal resources and allow attorneys to share and manage trial information.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_14/40919-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[VA loss renews calls to update Privacy Act]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department&#146;s recent loss of veterans&#146; personal data highlights a broader question that has rattled around Washington for 10 years: the need to update the Privacy Act of 1974.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_14/40923-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[How do you defend yourself against 'good' employees?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Much has been made of the theft last month of computer equipment containing personal data from the home of a Veterans Affairs Department employee, but less attention has been given to the fact that the real breach occurred when the employee carried that data out of his office.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_14/40924-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Senate has confirmed former congressman Robert Portman as the new director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Lurita Alexis Doan as the next administrator of the General Services Administration.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Charbo's promotion adds punch to DHS IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Technology management will be a different game at the Homeland Security Department now that CIO Scott Charbo has been promoted to the additional position of acting assistant secretary for management. Charbo&#146;s promotion could spur the department&#146;s IT reform, but Charbo himself now will have less time to allocate to systems issues.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Commerce sets up IT security education program]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The first step toward better information security in the government is to provide more training for the people responsible for keeping systems safe. That&#146;s the approach being taken by Nancy DeFrancesco, chief information security officer for the Commerce Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_14/40927-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[A-76 to play larger role in FMLOB]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget has added an unexpected and somewhat confusing twist to the Financial Management Line of Business initiative. Agencies or bureaus with 10 or more employees operating financial systems that do not comply with Financial System Integration Office requirements must now compete for, at minimum, the hosting and application management of their financial systems.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[HSPD-12 team building front-door standards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If physical access control under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 is going to be moved out from under &#147;guns and badges&#148; and to the network, it has to start with a set of standards agencies can agree on.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS to keep score on local  comm plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Like security and e-government managers before them, radio interoperability managers in cities across the country soon will receive scorecards on their performance.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Serious about service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You might say Les Solomon has benefited from a little inside information. As part of the federal government&#146;s ongoing effort to be more citizen-centric, the chief of the Census Bureau&#146;s Customer Services Center sat on a committee that drafted comprehensive service delivery guidelines.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Frictionless data: let it flow]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Think information sharing at your agency is difficult? It took an order from the president to get intelligence agencies to start to pool their resources. In August 2004, President George W. Bush signed into existence the National Counterterrorism Center, an informatic meeting ground for the CIA, FBI and 11 other agencies.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Fuzzy matching]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You&#146;re working on a data-sharing project and have established a vocabulary. Great. But even after the terms are agreed upon, agencies must work to make sure all variations in a language are covered.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Shawn McCarthy | Internaut: Open source&#146;s impact will only grow]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government data center managers need to be aware of a set of trends that could soon alter both the systems they select and the way they purchase and manage enterprise software.]]></description>
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