The Department of Defense's manual, DoD 8570.01-M Information Assurance Workforce Improvement Program, supports DoD Directive 8570.1, which requires all individuals possessing privileged access to a DoD Information System (IS) to be trained and certified in the secure operation of computer systems used throughout the DoD's Global Information Grid. 

This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

<p>Oracle customers, TransUnion, CMC Markets, Diamond Resorts International and National Marrow Donor Program, discuss defense-in-depth database security with data encryption, privileged user access control, data masking, and consolidated auditing and reporting.</p> 

In an era of advanced threats, having greater situational awareness is vital for detecting and mitigating attacks. Unfortunately, most organizations lack the capability for intelligence gathering and analysis. In this comprehensive report, gain guidance from top security leaders on how to get ahead with intelligence-driven information security. 

Discover how Cisco’s Prime Network Control System (NCS), a converged management platform for wired and wireless networks, can help you improve operational efficiencies, reduce operating expenses, and lower capital expenditures for your organization. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

This week’s Computer Weekly kicks off our Buyer's Guide to data security by looking at the changing role of the IT security chief. We also examine why flexible working is proving so slow to roll out and we talk to the UK's air traffic control operator about its ambitious desktop virtualisation project. 

Our economy, federal government and society increasingly relies on digital infrastructures to function, making cyber threats a very real concern. Read this IBM white paper and see how a public health and safety cyber model can offer more national security than a standard IT version. 

Most organizations seem stuck in the traditional castle-and-moat approach to security. This approach assumes there's a clear boundary between what's inside and outside the organization and that attacks come from external sources. Clearly today's threat environment requires a new approach. 

Over the past two years, the mobile TV landscape has changed dramatically. 

Read this paper to find out why the FAA's System Wide Information Management program selected four open source service-oriented architecture (SOA) components to combine with its other development and management tools to create an enterprise infrastructure that will be deployed between 2010 and 2015 to support NextGen satellite air traffic control. 

When it was time to refresh the headquarters' IT infrastructure, the Earth Rangers IT group knew that any new computer systems had to meet their own high environmental standards. In this case study, you'll learn why they decided to create a virtualized server infrastructure using solutions from Dell and VMware and the benefits achieved.