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Rutrell Yasin
Rutrell Yasin is is a freelance technology writer for GCN.
Cybersecurity
Built-in security enables cyber resilience
Agencies need to protect systems from software vulnerabilities that compromise availability, integrity and security.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Digital Government
FCC tackles data mobility across 200 legacy systems
The Federal Communications Commission wants to ensure efforts now underway to redesign hundreds of legacy systems will support data mobility.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Cybersecurity
Agencies work to close mobile security, connectivity gaps
The demands of security and connectivity are the two major challenges confronting agencies as they roll out mobile networks, government IT executives say.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
Project mines tweets, satellite and drone imagery for disaster response
George Mason University spearheads a DOT-funded project using social media posts, satellites and cloud-based tools to guide first responders to unfolding disasters.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
San Antonio goes to the cloud to speed up housing payments
The city's housing authority adopted Adobe EchoSign, a software-as-a-service e-signing application that cut the time to process housing assistance contracts by 98 percent.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
Amazon cloud receives DOD security stamp of approval
DOD provisional authorization paves the way for more Defense agencies to run workloads on the Amazon cloud.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
N.C. eyes cloud for linking statewide property data systems
North Carolina is testing cloud-based tools to integrate its property data silos for a range of uses, including taxation, emergency management and environmental protection.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
Sandia Labs unifies security, mobility, comm for next-gen researchers
Microsoft's Lync 2013 gives Sandia's IT managers presence awareness as well as instant messaging, conferencing and telephony tools that can integrate with enterprise collaboration and messaging software.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Digital Government
How MassHealth cut Medicaid fraud with predictive analytics
Predictive analytics system based on NetReveal fraud detection protects MassHealth from fraud and unnecessary expenditures.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Digital Government
NYC Geek Squad stays on mission to liberate data
Building on successes of 2013, the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics pushes predictive analytics to help city leaders make data-driven decisions.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Management
Mass HIway lets health providers easily swap medical records
Massachusetts' health info exchange helps providers locate, request and retrieve medical records from other participating providers on a secure, interconnected system.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
QTS launches federal cloud
The QTS Federal Cloud is an infrastructure-as-a-service system built on technologies that federal agencies are familiar with, including VMware, EMC and Cisco.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
Maine automates tasks on unemployment benefits system
The state's unemployment insurance benefits system uses a cloud-based application to automate time-consuming and error-prone tasks.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
Migration tool reduces risk and cost of SharePoint upgrades
Metalogix's Migration Expert gives administrators a detailed assessment of their current SharePoint environments as they move from older to newer versions.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
Southeast states share unemployment benefits system
Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina tap Capgemini for a cloud-based UI system that will go live in 2016.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
Industry group advocates linking cloud, cybersecurity planning
A report by SafeGov.org offers a plan to help agency CIOs get the benefits of cloud technology while meeting federal cybersecurity goals at the same time.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Digital Government
Smithsonian builds Internet of connected exhibits, specimens, research apps
The Smithsonian Institution is undergoing a digital makeover to support more interactive exhibits, displays and research applications for the public and research communities.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
CSA pushes software-defined perimeter network protection
Standardized SDP security framework will protect application infrastructures from network-based attacks.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
Forward! by Unisys ready for mission-critical app migration
Based on secure partitioning technology, the fabric-based platform offers secure containers for application workloads running on Intel-based servers.
- By Rutrell Yasin
Infrastructure
Amazon Kinesis does heavy-lifting on streaming, big data
Kinesis lets users easily set up high-capacity network pipes that can collect and analyze data in real time, at any scale, officials said.
- By Rutrell Yasin