June, 2010

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal In government, productivity tools aren’t just resources that increase efficiencies - they are essential to missions like ensuring national security, maintaining economic stability and improving our...

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal MITRE’s “ Ahead in the Clouds ” June question tackles continuity of operations (COOP) and failover in a cloud environment.  These are issues we discuss often with federal leaders, and they rightly...

By Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Microsoft Federal Kris Teutsch, who runs the National Security Group practice at Microsoft, recently contributed an article to the Journal of Homeland Security on the current Cyber threats we face, and it reminded me...

By Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Microsoft Federal In the federal world we talk a lot about challenges surrounding cloud adoption – namely how to ensure security and privacy .  But a major advantage of cloud infrastructures that doesn’t get discussed...

By Teresa Carlson , Vice President, Microsoft Federal   I recently attended an interesting session at the Gov 2.0 Expo entitled “Open Source Spying: 2010” which detailed the current state of information sharing within the intelligence community. ...