In the past year, vendors providing technology to government organizations and contractors have fallen under scrutiny. In May, President Trump signed executive order (EO) 13873, which bans organizations in the U.S from using products produced by companies considered a “national security threat”. This followed concerns that Chinese telecom-giant Huawei could be using its products to […]
In July of 1982, a British man by the name of Michael Fagan climbed a drainpipe in London, broke into Buckingham Palace and triggered several alarms on the premises. Readers might imagine that he was quickly spotted and apprehended by the Queen’s Guard; that Scotland Yard was called onto the scene before quickly apprehending and […]
Background When Amazon Web Services was proposed in 2003 by Benjamin Black, it had already been a year since the U.S Government completed its effort to create and finalize the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) – which defined IT security across public agencies and partners. This update to U.S. law had taken fifteen years […]
