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Veterans Fill Technology Workforce Gap Through Private Programs

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American companies and industry organizations are ramping up efforts that began last year to help employ returning veterans and meet growing IT workforce needs.

Private training and mentoring programs are bridging the knowledge and training gaps for veterans as federal agencies begin to process the influx of veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq. Private efforts aimed at training for private industry and government jobs are also in response to President Barack Obama’s call last year for American firms and associations to help 100,000 veterans re-enter the workforce by the end of 2013. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 19, 2012 at 12:00 PM

Q&A: Symantec’s Approach To Security – “Eat Your Own Cooking”

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Federal IT managers often look to leading technology suppliers to discover what they have learned to protect their own enterprises. Breaking Gov sat down with Symantec Corp.’s Vice President and General Manager for Public Sector, Gigi Schumm, to discuss what federal IT managers can learn from Symantec’s own approach to security and how those lessons are incorporated into the company’s products.

Breaking Gov: If federal IT managers wanted to look inside Symantec to see how security is managed and baked into your products, what would they see? Keep reading →

 /  Published September 2, 2011 at 2:01 PM

Symantec Preparing Cloud Security Components For Federal Agencies

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Cyber security powerhouse Symantec Corp. plans to release a new product within the next 12 months that it believes will deliver the necessary identity management and information protections that many federal agencies are looking for before they make the leap to cloud computing, a senior Symantec official said.

Many federal enterprises, particularly those in the defense, intelligence and homeland security arenas, have been slow to move to cloud-based services because of the security concerns that arise from moving an organization’s servers, software and data into a shared cloud environment. But with its new O3 (a.k.a. Ozone) product, which will combine identity management with policy controls, information inspection and encryption, Symantec officials believe they have the answer that the government has been looking for. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 1, 2011 at 7:00 AM