GCN Lab Impressions

• Navy crowdsourcing tool more than just a game

  

  The Navy is using a computer game to crowdsource ideas to help make our fighting forces more efficient -- and less costly.

• Siri, is this the end of all-you-can-eat bandwidth?
• The next big social media thing? Here are the likely winners.

More Impressions

Another View from Industry Thought Leaders

• Rep. Langevin: Cyber law dithering endangers US critical infrastructure

  

  Congress should set aside partisan differences to pass legislation that would require cybersecurity standards to protect U.S. critical infrastructure.

• Crash analytics: How data can help eliminate highway deaths

  Highway safety groups' strategy, called Toward Zero Deaths, is ambitious, but data analytics combined with the "Four Es" make it possible.

Guest Columnists

CyberEye | Bill Jackson

• If software patches are important, why do so many ignore them?

  

  The continued presence -- and exploitation -- of known vulnerabilities suggests that some executives have decided that installing software patches is not worth the effort.

Editor's Desk

• Government cloud gets personal -- and Siri-ous

  

  When the government cloud meets the burgeoning consumer cloud, service to the citizen should look more like Siri to the citizen.

Internaut | Shawn P. McCarthy

• 'Cloud first' giving way to 'mobile first'

  

  "Mobile first" has become the war cry of Web developers -- and agencies -- who want to take a standardized, enterprise approach to the explosion of smart phones and tablets.

CISO Perspectives | by (ISC)2

• Continuous monitoring: It's a process, not a goal

  The new approach to FISMA makes the three-year snapshot a thing of the past, but monitoring for security is just getting started.

Reality Check | Mike Daconta

• Hackers own today's free-love PC architecture, and it's time to move on

  

  With the coming post-PC architecture, sensor, device and cloud components will form a new multi-machine OS with built-in solutions for security and ID management.