Internaut: Instant messengers bring new security risks
Instant messaging programs that spread Trojan horse programs, viruses and spam are raising a powerful new threat to system security. It's different from hacking or site cracking, and fighting it takes different tactics.
Internaut: E-gov sites deliver the data
Cross-agency cooperation is a crucial component of every data sharing project, from Extensible Markup Language tagging to joint application use.
Applications: XML, Web services pave the way
Computer applications express agencies' missions as code. Missions stem from a blend of policy and the management of implementing policy.
Internaut: HSD should fix a big weakness -- spoofing
As the Homeland Security Department starts collecting data about infrastructure vulnerabilities, I hope it will focus on one of the most obvious: hackers' ability to cover their tracks by spoofing IP addresses.
Internaut: Privacy trade-offs could build more tolerance for TIA
When Thomas Paine wrote in 1776, 'These are the times that try men's souls,' he was talking about the choices citizens are forced to make during a major conflict.
Internaut: How agencies could use XML to ensure integrity of data
Who is the ultimate authority for government data quality? Chances are you trust the data you collect within your own agency. You 'sort of' trust other agencies' data, and you cross your fingers and hope for the best with everything else.
Internaut: Radio tags are cheap enough to replace bar codes
Anyone involved in government IT asset management knows what a headache it can be to keep track of hundreds or thousands of pieces of computer equipment.
Internaut: To keep up with PKI, agencies need XML, and vice versa
It's a daunting task to get multiple federal agencies to agree on an Extensible Markup Language standard for data sharing.
Internaut: Ready for .Net? Read this first
The Microsoft Windows .Net platform is emerging as a powerful toolbox for integrating Web services with applications. Although .Net can work with multiple types of systems, it's mainly for Microsoft-centric sites.
Internaut: Place your bets in Web services race
Government managers were startled this summer when the Office of Management and Budget seemed to endorse two Web services platforms for enterprise architectures: Microsoft .Net and Java2 Enterprise Edition.
Internaut: The Net started out as a federal experiment
The typical citizen probably thinks of the Internet as something that appeared in the mid-1990s. But most government employees likely have a better understanding of the Net's history.
Internaut: Spam nearly at the tipping point of 50% of Net traffic
In the next few months, the Internet will reach a most regrettable milestone: Spam will amount to more than half of all e-mail traffic on any given day. It's now at nearly 40 percent and climbing fast.
Are private intranets the answer for security?
Last September's terrorist attacks brought to light the stinging realization that agencies seldom talk or share information with one another.
Internaut: Boost for wireless government
Internet wireless services can push photos, public records and other information out to police and border guards. If the price point drops low enough, such wireless access could extend to every maintenance engineer, social worker or government parking lot manager.
Internaut: Feds are citizens and e-gov users, too
The federal government is pouring a substantial amount of energy and dollars into e-government service to citizens. But it's not all for private citizens.
Internaut: Why not a nationwide security standard?
The time has come to certify information security processes in much the same way that the International Standards Organization grants ISO 9000 certificates to manufacturers with consistent quality-control processes.
Search engine gives FirstGov edge
The new FirstGov search engine the General Services Administration revved up last month runs smoothly and needs only a few improvements to make FirstGov a best-of-breed Web portal.
Internaut: It pays to link IT procurement into the supply chain
Not all dot-com business innovations have gone bust. Take, for example, supply chain management.
Internaut: These Net bills make sense'really
The thought of any Internet legislation on Capitol Hill makes many people nervous'and rightly so.
Internaut: What's RSS? And should agencies syndicate their data?
Have you considered syndicating the online information your government office collects?
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