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By Mark Rockwell Oct 19, 2020 It only takes one small breach to dent confidence in the nation’s election systems, according to a digital rights and technology expert. While the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other organizations have made great strides since 2016 to shore up local election infrastructure, “cybersecurity is an active process. Threats are constantly changing and evolving, so we need to keep making the case that election officials need to prioritize cybersecurity and not be complacent," said William Adler, senior technologist for elections and de...

Communications Week International founder Denis Gilhooly, who became digital health visionary, dies aged 60 Denis Gilhooly, who founded Communications Week International aged 24 and went on to become a pioneer in the subject of global digital health, has died at 60. Gilhooly was publishing director and founding editor of Communications Week International but looked so young for his age his photo had to be removed since its inclusion made the publication lack credibility. He was however a visionary, being among the first to understand how digital health could provide early detection of epidemi...

By Mark Rockwell   The General Services Administration worked with the Defense Department and vendors to reconfigure the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions Blanket Purchase Agreement that resulted in a dramatically lower ceiling value from the initial award, according to the agency's manager of the contract. GSA initially awarded DEOS, a 10-year contract to provide Microsoft's productivity suite Office 365 to DOD, to General Dynamics IT in 2019. The ceiling value of the award was $7.6 billion. The solicitation was revised amid protests and the contract was re-awarded to GDIT last month wit...

By Mark Rockwell   The General Services Administration continues to have problems with managing identity cards it issues to contractors to access its buildings and IT systems, according to a report from agency's Office of Inspector General. The report, issued on Nov. 4, covers an audit period between February, 2017 and August, 2019. It builds on an OIG 2016 audit that found the agency couldn't account for 15,000 of the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards it issued to its contractors. The report also said the agency didn't collect PIV cards from 445 contract employees who failed backg...

By Nosa Alekhuogie Spectranet 4G LTE has been adjudged the best 4G LTE Internet Service Provider of the year by Communications Week, Organisers of the Beacon of ICT (BoICT) 2020 awards ceremony. The award is coming three weeks after Spectranet was voted the best 4G LTE Internet Service Provider of the year and Consumer-Friendly Internet service provider of the year respectively by Nigeria Technology Awards. The event, which was held in Lagos under strict observation of the COVID 19 rules and regulations, had key players of the Information and Communications Telecommunications (ICT) industry i...