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NASCIO has just published a new document on digital records: "Electronic Records Management and Digital Preservation: Protecting the Knowledge Assets of the State Government Enterprise." The paper is at the top of this page.
I don't normally publish international news, but the New York Times has published a story about large scale cyber attacks targeting Estonia's infrastructure. Some are calling it the first cyber war.
Computer security experts from NATO, the European Union, the United States and Israel have since converged on Tallinn to offer help and to learn what they can about cyberwar in the digital age.
'This may well turn out to be a watershed in terms of widespread awareness of the vulnerability of modern society,' said Linton Wells II, the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration at the Pentagon. 'It has gotten the attention of a lot of people.'
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D., W.Va.) has introduced legislation establishing a national goal for the universal deployment of next-generation, 100 megabit Internet access by 2015, "and calling upon Congress and the President to develop a strategy, enact legislation, and adopt policies to accomplish this objective," according to Thomas. The goal is 10 megabit service by the end of 2010, and 100 megabits service by the end of 2015.
State government chief information officers are meeting today in Washington, D.C. to participate in the seventh annual NASCIO DC Fly-In. From the association's news release:
40 state representatives participated in NASCIO’s 2007 DC Fly-In, and took the opportunity to meet with members of Congress, committee staff and executives from federal executive branch agencies, as well as NASCIO’s strategic partners, to discuss critical issues and emerging trends in the state information technology (IT) arena. NASCIO's 2007 policy issues for federal action focus on strengthening national Cybersecurity through state homeland security program funding. Visit ww.nascio.org/advocacy/washWatch/to view the NASCIO Call for Action on this issue.
The focus of the Fly-In is cybersecurity.
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