Day archives: April 12th, 2010

NIST: Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information

NIST Special Publication 800-122, Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Erika McCallister, Tim Grance, Karen Scarfone, April 2010. “The escalation of security breaches involving personally identifiable information (PII) has contributed to the loss of millions of records over the past few years. …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Government Documents, ID Theft, PC Security, Privacy

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Too Big to Fail after FDICIA

Too Big to Fail after FDICIA, Larry D. Wall, Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 1, 2010 “In 1993, when this article was originally published, Congress had recently passed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA) to reduce taxpayers’ exposure to financial system losses, including their exposure at “too big to fail” financial …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

New GAO Reports: IP and Pirated Goods, USPS, Federal Desktop Core Configuration Requirements

Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods, GAO-10-423, April 12, 2010 U.S. Postal Service: Strategies and Options to Facilitate Progress toward Financial Viability, GAO-10-455, April 12, 2010 Information Security: Agencies Need to Implement Federal Desktop Core Configuration Requirements, GAO-10-202, March 12, 2010 Information Security: Concerted Effort Needed …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, PC Security

CBO: The Effects of Health Reform on the Federal Budget

The Effects of Health Reform on the Federal Budget, April 2010 – Presentation by CBO Director Doug Elmendorf to the World Health Care Congress: “The underlying law and the subsequent reconciliation act that modified it will generate changes in direct spending and revenue that will reduce federal deficits by $143 billion (-$15 billion in 2019).”

Subjects: Government Documents

FTC Tips for Consumers Weighing How to Settle Their Credit Card Debts

News release: “Consumers with overwhelming credit card debt may be tempted to seek help from companies that promise to erase their debt for pennies on the dollar, but the Federal Trade Commission urges caution. In a new consumer publication, Settling Your Credit Card Debts, the FTC says that there is no guarantee that debt settlement …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

The State of Americas Libraries, 2010

News release: “When jobs go away, Americans turn to their libraries to find information about future employment or educational opportunities. This library usage trend and others are detailed in the 2010 State of Americas Libraries report, released April 11, 2010 by the American Library Association. The report shows that Americans have turned to their libraries …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

Federal Cyber Security Outlook for 2010

“How well prepared are IT professionals within U.S. government agencies to respond to foreign cyber threats? Will government initiatives, such as the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative and the creation of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Coordinator role, be effective in addressing the challenges facing U.S. critical IT infrastructure? What is the impact of compliance on security …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, PC Security

Letter Report for the Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks: Informing Strategies and Developing Options for U.S. Policy

“This report [by the Committee on Deterring Cyberattacks; National Research Council] is the first phase of a larger project to conduct a broad, multidisciplinary examination of deterrence strategies and their possible utility to the U.S. government in its policies toward preventing cyberattacks. This first phase identifies the key issues and questions that merit examination. The …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, PC Security

Brookings Governance Study: Saving Money Through Cloud Computing

Saving Money Through Cloud Computing, Darrell M. West, April 7, 2010: “The U.S. federal government spends nearly $76 billion each year on information technology, and $20 billion of that is devoted to hardware, software, and file servers (Alford and Morton, 2009). Traditionally, computing services have been delivered through desktops or laptops operated by proprietary software. …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, PC Security

Undergraduate Paper Grading – Outsourced to Asia

The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Virtual-TA, a service of a company called EduMetry Inc., took over. The goal of the service is to relieve professors and teaching assistants of a traditional and sometimes tiresome taskand even, the company says, to do it better than TA’s can. The graders working for EduMetry, based in a Virginia …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

EPA OIG: Need Continues for a Strategic Plan to Protect Childrens Health

EPA OIG Evaluation: Need Continues for a Strategic Plan to Protect Childrens Health, Report No. 10-P-0095, April 5, 2010 “Five years after providing Office of Childrens Health Protection (OCHP) with recommendations related to the strategic and annual planning processes, agreed-to corrective actions have not been completed. According to OCHP, which is now the Office of …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents

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