Brute Force Attacks Prey on Common Password Combinations

HP Discover’s CIO Summits allow CIOs to dig deeper into subjects of particular interest. In the cloud breakout in Las Vegas last week, CIOs presented their viewpoints and learned more about the state of cloud strategy at HP IT. Obviously, cloud is a big deal for CIOs—HP IT said that what took them three months to provision now takes just 11 hours!

The House has passed an amendment to a larger bill that will streamline federal IT and finally empower CIOs - those able to keep their jobs as CIOs. Federal CIOs have long felt powerless and this bill, as this fedscoop story says, only restates their duties.

If passsed, the amendment, according to the story, would call for seriously denting the ranks of an estimated 250 federal CIOs. But with government, mandating and doing are two different things.

Hello there!  This is Big Data again.  Remember my Open letter to Enterprise IT? At the HP Discover conference, a panel discussion titled, “Make Information Matter: Make Big Data work for you” was all about me.