Bob Gourley
Co-Founder and Partner, Cognitio, - Editor, CTOvision.com
Bob Gourley is a co-founder and partner of Cognitio and the publisher of CTOvision.com and ThreatBrief.com. Bob’s first career was as a naval intelligence officer, which included operational tours in Europe and Asia. Bob was the first Director of Intelligence (J2) at DoD’s cyber defense organization JTF-CND. Following retirement from the Navy, Bob was an executive with TRW and Northrop Grumman and then returned to government service as the CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Bob was named one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the globe by Infoworld and was named by Washingtonian as one of DC’s “Tech Titans.”
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Security Community’s Thoughts on CISA
November 10th, 2015
With the recent Senate passage of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), we’ve been following the security and intelligence communities’ reaction to the bill from both the technology and policy side. At its core the legislation is meant to be an offensive stance in the fight against hacks and cyber attacks.
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Legislating in Cyberspace
July 22nd, 2015
With what seems like daily reports of data breaches affecting government and commercial systems, the federal government is taking a serious look at what role, if any, they should play in prosecuting cyber criminals.
- Tagged Government Cybersecurity, Threat Brief
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What’s Lurking in the Shadows?
June 11th, 2015
For CIOs, Shadow IT gives them that same feeling they had as kids when they thought something was hiding in their closets. Only problem -- Shadow IT (unlike monsters) is real.
- Tagged CIO, Cloud, Government Cybersecurity, Threat
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Accountability in the Cloud
May 27th, 2015
While security concerns have long been named as the long pole in the tent in terms of cloud adoption, we’re seeing more and more mention of accountability as a key question in how and what to move to the cloud. Federal buyers in particular want to know how vendors will support them if and when things go wrong.
- Tagged CIO, Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Threat Brief
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We Need to Become Transformers
May 15th, 2015
And no, we can’t all be Optimus Prime. The word “transformation” has become a common phrase in coverage of the IT security landscape. But more than another buzzword, it is acting as a call to action. A number of stories we’ve featured in Threat Brief have looked deeper into this call for transformation and put some research behind the trend
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When Hackers Turn into Insider Threats
April 30th, 2015
We recently featured an article on Threat Brief that talked about how hackers are increasingly targeting bank employees, rather than customers, to get at the valuable data held within bank IT systems.
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Elevating Security to the Board Room
April 13th, 2015
High profile data breaches and ongoing media attention on data security have resulted in some interested developments in the practice of IT security.
- Tagged Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Target, Threat Brief
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Building the Cyber Workforce
April 2nd, 2015
The need for cybersecurity talent in government is well documented. Creating and retaining talented cyber professionals is incumbent on both employers and cyber employees.
- Tagged Cyber Workforce, Cybersecurity, Threat Brief
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Hacking. What’s Government Got to Do with It?
February 17th, 2015
With all of the high profile hacking incidents recently, many people are asking, "what is the government's role in all of this?"
- Tagged Cybersecurity, Hacking, Threat Brief
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Educating the Masses on Cyber
February 3rd, 2015
Wombat Security Technologies Inc. and the Aberdeen Group released new research that suggests security awareness and changing employee behavior can reduce the risk of a breach by up to 70%.
