In 2009, Chinese hackers began stealing sensitive intellectual property from U.S. oil, gas and petrochemical companies. The attacks were attributed to the Chinese based on recognition of Chinese hacking tools previously identified on underground hacking sites and the attacks apparent origin in Beijing. Termed “Night Dragon,” these attacks included social engineering, spear-phishing attacks, exploitation of Microsoft Windows OS vuln...

On October 7, 2010, the U.S. Small Business Administration published a final rule effective February 4, 2011, aimed at expanding federal contracting opportunities for women-owned small businesses (WOSBs). The Final Rule sets forth procedures authorized by the Small Business Act to help ensure a level playing field on which WOSBs can compete for Federal contracting opportunities, while helping achieve the existing statutory goal that 5 percent...

The conference is unique in that it features presentations from nine Chief Information Officers at the federal level. 'It is extremely rare to have this many speakers of this caliber in the same room,' says Holly Schneider Brown, the program director. 'Given the importance of IT overhaul for the government, the dialogue that will take place at this event will be one of the most important of the year.' The conference will address the pressing n...