LANSING - Two high-profile events this week provided an excellent opportunity to promote our diversification efforts and showcase some of the great things happening in Michigan. On Tuesday, Governor Granholm and I met with venture-capital firms and life-science industry leaders at the 2010 BIO International Conference (BIO) in Chicago. BIO featured high-level industry leaders discussing
WASHINGTON DC - Hello and thank you for the opportunity to introduce myself as the new unit chief of the FBI Cyber Division's Public & Private Alliance Unit, which includes the InfraGard Program. Before I arrived, I heard so many positive things about InfraGard and the membership. It is truly a privilege to join this
DETROIT - 2010 marks the sixth year for the Midwest Technology Leaders Symposium, which gathers the Midwest's top information executives - CIOs and senior level IT Executives to the MGM Grand Detroit on May 26. MTL provides a platform to recognize achievements in the Midwest IT community in a non-political cross-industry event. Attendees will take
SAN FRANCISCO - SenSage has announced the results of an industry survey on security management practices taken during last month's RSA Conference. The survey of 360 security professionals identifies several weaknesses in respondents' log management, compliance reporting, real-time monitoring, forensic investigation and incident response processes. Fifty-two percent involve only one or two groups in security
NEW YORK - CA has announced the release of CA ARCserve r15. The solution set includes CA ARCserve Backup - CA's traditional offering in this space - two rebranded CA solutions, which are now ARCserve Replication and CA ARCserve High Availability, and an innovative new disk-to-disk backup and restore product, CA ARCserve D2D. The ARCserve
ANN ARBOR ? Borders Group will redefine its electronic book strategy by selling new e-Book readers at prices less than the competition, the company said Friday. In August, Borders said it will sell the Kobe eReader for $149.99, more than 100 bucks less than the hot selling Amazon Kindle, which retails for $259.99. The Kobe
SEATTLE - When Robert Trout wants to illustrate cryptography's particular need for speed, he tells the story of the Enigma encryption engine. In 1942 mathematician Alan Turing and his colleagues at Bletchley Park, England's code-breaking headquarters, had reverse-engineered the Enigma, a German encoding device, and the Allies started reading Axis battle plans. Suspecting trouble, the
DETROIT - Tongues were wagging this week as General Motors shook up its marketing staff once again. Remember, Bob Lutz held the top marketing job at GM only a few months ago when he was eased to the side and replaced by Susan Docherty. That's about the time that GM said all the big management
DETROIT - Current software engineering practices inadvertently leave software and systems susceptible to attacks. As evidence, the DHS's Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) lists 797 explicit defects and the list is growing at a constant rate. These defects cost the average U.S. Company $22 million dollars a year to fix. Moreover, it isn?t like recommendations for
DETROIT - Key institutions in Detroit, with sponsorship from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, MIT's Center for Future Civic Media and Google are kicking off a one-year effort to broaden journalism's role in the nation's underserved communities. As many as 100 journalists, technologists, bloggers, educators, funders and entrepreneurs are expected to participate June 3-6