Saturday, October 26, 2019


Something other states should emulate.
Texas Cyberteam Helps Cities Respond to Ransomware Attacks
The Texas Military Department — the umbrella agency for the state's National Guard branches — will host hundreds of state, local and county officials at Camp Mabry in Austin on Thursday to show how its Cyber Incident Response Team plans to handle future attacks while offering tips to protect valuable software.
The Texas Military Department has recruited about 100 ransomware experts, a team made up of military and civilian volunteers, who were the first to respond to the August attacks, according to Winnek.




Should be of interest to my students who were labeling Microsoft a Cash Cow.
The Pentagon’s $10 billion deal to provide cloud computing services to the Department of Defense officially went to Microsoft Friday. The news came as an upset to Amazon, whose competing bid appeared to be the frontrunner for most of the contract’s deliberations. Throughout the yearlong process, President Donald Trump has repeatedly rebuked Amazon’s prospects, which seems in part an extenuation of his outspoken vendetta against the company and its CEO, Jeff Bezos.
According to a Washington Post report, Microsoft is now set to take over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project, a potentially decade-long federal cloud computing initiative that has attracted interest from some of the biggest names in tech.



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