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Twitter LinkedIn The prolific attack on SolarWinds and their partner ecosystem will forever change how we view supply chain security, and the role email communication plays in it. As the events and details surrounding the attack continue to unfold, we have learned from the company itself that for at least nine months an “email account was compromised and used to programmatically access accounts of targeted SolarWinds personnel in business and technical roles”. This key discovery into how SolarWinds started - from a compromised email account - puts a spotlight on the rising threat of ven...

By Denis Boudreau Mar 10, 2021 COVID-19 has changed how we do just about everything, from banking to shopping to schooling to working -- even personal communications.  One silver lining is the increased attention to the importance of digital channels, as well as the accessibility of those channels. That’s because an estimated 26% of the U.S. population has some form of disability – vision, hearing, cognitive or limited motor mobility. Many organizations have made progress updating their websites and apps to be digitally accessible to people with disabilities. The same can’t be said, ...

The Defense Department wants data, software and analysis to be shared across command and control systems.

By Clinton Johnson, Margot Bordne Mar 11, 2021 People and organizations often tell stories using maps. Many use the technology of a geographic information system to gather and store crucial mappable data, process it and, most importantly, display the information in a way that can be easily understood. Sometimes the result is an actual story map, but often GIS produces maps and dashboards that allow stories to emerge from the visuals. The data reflects real people and the way community conditions affect their lived experiences. The maps are therefore useful ways to distill many individual sto...