Mobility and security share focus at FOSE

 

Connecting state and local government leaders

Since Sept. 11, agency network administrators are more willing to support users' mobile devices. And users are finding new ways to connect, in effect constructing a new, mobile e-government platform on the fly.

Since Sept. 11, agency network administrators are more willing to support users' mobile devices. And users are finding new ways to connect, in effect constructing a new, mobile e-government platform on the fly.What's missing is security.'Over the last six months there has been a conflict over security: How much material should be online and who should use it,' said Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D-Pa.), speaking at a FOSE 2002 breakfast sponsored by Adobe Systems Inc. 'We can't move as quickly as we hoped' toward full, free information access.The FOSE trade show in Washington last month highlighted both the trends and the tensions on the wireless landscape. Vendors are toeing a thin line. They must ensure that their firewalls won't fail under yet-to-be-invented attacks while at the same time extend confidentiality far beyond agency fences with virtual private networks and wireless LANs.One early victim is Bluetooth wireless connectivity: automatic and convenient but vulnerable to eavesdropping.Instead, companies such as mFormation Technologies Inc. of Edison, N.J., can make mobile tools respond, through their service providers, to encrypted commands from existing enterprise network management systems.If an mFormation user loses a wireless phone or a handheld computer running Palm OS, Microsoft Windows CE or Java, the administrator can locate and freeze it, remotely zap back its data or even fry its chip. A server license is about $40,000; each device's software agent costs $70 to $100.Meanwhile, mainstream applications such as Adobe Acrobat Reader are becoming available for Palm OS handhelds; a beta Acrobat version is downloadable from .Adobe Portable Document Format is now a core technology in the Food and Drug Administration's e-applications program.The form for new drug approval can run to hundreds of thousands of pages, said Greg Brolund, a computer scientist at FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in Rockville, Md. Two years ago the center started accepting paperless applications in PDF or SAS Transport'an ASCII format developed by SAS Institute Inc. of Cary, N.C. More than 5 million pages' worth of filings have now arrived electronically.Adobe recently added Extensible Markup Language capability to its Acrobat application, and FDA's next-generation e-filing system will use XML to generate tables of contents, improve navigation and create an audit trail for reviewers, Brolund said.FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine accepts applications for new medicines as encrypted PDF files, computer specialist Elizabeth L. Parbuoni said. Last June the veterinary center introduced a so-called smart PDF form that allows direct data import. Parbuoni and her staff are developing an XML form for mandatory annual reports of adverse drug experiences.'We've tried to do the heavy lifting in the IT department so the reviewers can just click and point and do what they were trained to do,' Parbuoni said.On another security front, a FOSE ES (Enterprise Solutions) panel of open-source software experts discussed the National Security Agency's secure Linux operating system.Peter A. Loscocco, NSA's Security Enhanced Linux project leader, said the OS kernel sets up partitioned security domains with stronger authorization than the usual discretionary access controls. SE Linux consists of kernel and utility patches, downloadable from , added to commercial Linux operating systems.Building on the SE Linux platform, VMware Inc. of Palo Alto, Calif., has collaborated with NSA on NetTop, a virtual-machine system that lets a user access multiple secure networks from one 32-bit system. There's no hardware bottleneck in sight for e-government, said Patrick Gelsinger, vice president and chief technology officer of Intel Corp. In his FOSE keynote, Gelsinger said the exponential growth of chip transistor density still follows Moore's law, the 1960s prediction by Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore that transistor density would double every 18 to 24 months.Gelsinger said he has 'absolute confidence' that the IT industry will continue to exploit Moore's law over the next 25 or 30 years. By 2010, the typical desktop computer will have a 30-GHz processor that performs 1 trillion instructions per second. Handheld computers will run at clock speeds of 5 GHz, faster than today's high-end systems, Gelsinger said.The Pentium 4, Intel's current 32-bit processor, has enough design headroom to reach 10-GHz clock speeds, Gelsinger said. Intel is now delivering its second-generation 64-bit Itanium CPU, code-named McKinley, for products that will come out later this year.

Intel's Patrick Gelsinger says Moore's law is probably good for three more decades.















www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/palmbeta.html



Paperless drug approval











www.nsa.gov/selinux

Faster hardware







X
This website uses cookies to enhance user experience and to analyze performance and traffic on our website. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. Learn More / Do Not Sell My Personal Information
Accept Cookies
X
Cookie Preferences Cookie List

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

When you visit our website, we store cookies on your browser to collect information. The information collected might relate to you, your preferences or your device, and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to and to provide a more personalized web experience. However, you can choose not to allow certain types of cookies, which may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer. Click on the different category headings to find out more and change our default settings according to your preference. You cannot opt-out of our First Party Strictly Necessary Cookies as they are deployed in order to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting the cookie banner and remembering your settings, to log into your account, to redirect you when you log out, etc.). For more information about the First and Third Party Cookies used please follow this link.

Allow All Cookies

Manage Consent Preferences

Strictly Necessary Cookies - Always Active

We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.

Sale of Personal Data, Targeting & Social Media Cookies

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties. These cookies collect information for analytics and to personalize your experience with targeted ads. You may exercise your right to opt out of the sale of personal information by using this toggle switch. If you opt out we will not be able to offer you personalised ads and will not hand over your personal information to any third parties. Additionally, you may contact our legal department for further clarification about your rights as a California consumer by using this Exercise My Rights link

If you have enabled privacy controls on your browser (such as a plugin), we have to take that as a valid request to opt-out. Therefore we would not be able to track your activity through the web. This may affect our ability to personalize ads according to your preferences.

Targeting cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

Social media cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.

If you want to opt out of all of our lead reports and lists, please submit a privacy request at our Do Not Sell page.

Save Settings
Cookie Preferences Cookie List

Cookie List

A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – asks your browser to store on your device in order to remember information about you, such as your language preference or login information. Those cookies are set by us and called first-party cookies. We also use third-party cookies – which are cookies from a domain different than the domain of the website you are visiting – for our advertising and marketing efforts. More specifically, we use cookies and other tracking technologies for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.

Functional Cookies

We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.

Performance Cookies

We do not allow you to opt-out of our certain cookies, as they are necessary to ensure the proper functioning of our website (such as prompting our cookie banner and remembering your privacy choices) and/or to monitor site performance. These cookies are not used in a way that constitutes a “sale” of your data under the CCPA. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not work as intended if you do so. You can usually find these settings in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser. Visit www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more.

Sale of Personal Data

We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated “sale” of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.

Social Media Cookies

We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated “sale” of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.

Targeting Cookies

We also use cookies to personalize your experience on our websites, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you, and to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our websites and your experience. You may opt out of our use of such cookies (and the associated “sale” of your Personal Information) by using this toggle switch. You will still see some advertising, regardless of your selection. Because we do not track you across different devices, browsers and GEMG properties, your selection will take effect only on this browser, this device and this website.