LANSING ? Ken Theis, the Director of the Michigan Department of Technology, Management and Budget and the state's Chief Information Officer, will take a new job on Oct. 1 - as Chief Operating Officer for technology consultant Dewpoint Inc. Before his 12-years of service with the State of Michigan, Theis worked 10 years at General
ANN ARBOR -The University of Michigan ranks first in research and development spending among the nation's public universities and colleges, according to the latest rankings from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The rankings, announced by the agency on Monday, show that U-M moved up two positions, passing the University of California, San Francisco, and the
TROY - Walsh College is designated as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security. Walsh is the only school in Michigan that maps to five of the CNSS standards. Nationwide, NSA has designated only 100 schools as Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE). Walsh
ANN ARBOR - Gluu, which helps companies implement federated identity, has become an InCommon Affiliate. InCommon is the U.S. trust federation in higher education and is an operating unit of Internet2. Through InCommon, higher education institutions and their partners offer access to contracted and collaborative services ? in a privacy- and security-enhanced method ? to
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - I've been seeing demos of credit cards with rewritable magnetic stripes since I started covering start-ups in 1998, but it appears that Dynamics is going to be the first company to actually get this technology into the hands of consumers. At Demo Fall 2010, I saw a quick (and, to be
NEW YORK - Call me your e-mail security guinea pig. The other day I was talking to Hugh Thompson, adjunct professor of software security at Columbia University and founder of consultancy People Security, about his research related to online privacy and he mentioned how easy it can be to hijack someone's e-mail account. So, I
SAN FRANCISCO - A third of small and medium businesses surveyed by Panda Security have been hit by malware from social networks, according to a study released on Wednesday. Panda's "Social Media Risk Index for Small to Medium Sized Businesses" also found that 35 percent of the companies hurt by social-media malware suffered financial losses,
SAN FRANCISCO - The developer of a software tool to help Iranians get around their government's Internet restrictions has withdrawn the program in response to questions about its security. Haystack said it had halted further testing of the program in Iran while it conducts a review. "If you have a copy of the test program,
DEARBORN ? Lincoln Advanced Technologies won the startup category at the Midwest Regional final of the $500,000 Global Security Challenge September 21 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn campus, while the small to midsize businesses winner was NIMtech. Lincoln of Hinkley, Ill., showcased a mask that they developed to protect against biological, nuclear and chemical agents
DETROIT- Asterand, a leading provider of human tissue and human tissue-based research services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies engaged in drug discovery research, announced that its subsidiary BioSeek, a pioneer in the application of predictive human biology to drug discovery, has signed a two-year agreement with Cellzome. Under the agreement, BioSeek will apply its unique