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Red Hat Government News is a monthly newsletter designed to provide government agencies worldwide with the latest information on training, offers, events, and news articles.
Spring has finally arrived and with it brings an exciting new season of Red Hat events. Red Hat is proud to sponsor the upcoming USO Black Tie Gala, Children's Inn at NIH Charity Ball, Women's Center Leadership Conference & Gala, as well as many other interesting events. Be sure to check out the government event calendar for a full listing of all upcoming Red Hat programs and events.
Red Hat is also pleased to announce our upcoming JBoss Government Users and Developers Conference. This complementary, one-day conference is not to be missed! We look forward to seeing you there on April 10th!
Respectfully,
Paul Smith, VP of Government Sales Operations
Do you want to learn how leveraging open source in your SOA strategy can help improve your agency's performance and reach your overall goals for agility and cost savings?
Now you can, with the help of Red Hat, JBoss and our SOA Partner Ecosystem.
At this complimentary one-day conference learn how agencies can confidently deliver mission-critical Web 2.0 applications and SOA services in a simple, open, and affordable way using the power of open source.
Date: Thursday, April 10, 2008
Time: 7:30am - 3pm (breakfast & lunch provided)
Where:
Trusted Computer Solutions has upgraded its Security Blanket security compliance software so that it can make Red Hat Enterprise Linux compliant with the settings defined in the Defense Information Systems Agency's Security Technical Implementation Guide for that operating system.
The profile also includes Linux security profiles from the SANS Institute and the Center for Internet Security, and a security profile for the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) in addition to RHEL.
TCS offers Security Blanket 1.2 not only to Defense agencies, but to civilian agencies as well.
"The Department of Defense has invested a great deal of time and research in the development of these lockdown guidelines," said Ed Hammersla, chief operating officer at TCS, in a statement "Now commercial companies and civilian government agencies can have the same level of security as the DOD."
DISA developed STIGS as a way to establish a secure baseline configuration for the agency's servers. TCS claims that the Security Blanket is the first software to automate the setting and checking of the DISA STIG configurations on RHEL servers.
Security Blanket costs $198 per server.
The Navy will acquire only systems based on open technologies and standards.
Vice Adm. Mark Edwards, deputy chief of naval operations for communications, broke the news March 5 to a Navy IT Day audience in Vienna, Va., sponsored by AFCEA International.
"The days of proprietary technology must come to an end," he said. "We will no longer accept systems that couple hardware, software and data."
The Navy's decision was informed by a combination of motivations, including the desire to provide the latest capabilities to warfighters and control the costs of its information technology operations, he added.
"We can't accept the increasing costs of maintaining our present-day capabilities," Edwards said. "In the civilian marketplace, it's just the opposite. Some private-sector concerns are cutting their costs by 90 percent while expanding their performance."
Join HP and Red Hat for this workshop and hands-on demonstration session designed to initiate an open and beneficial conversation about key challenges at DISA and we can work together to help you address them. The team of subject matter experts delivers domain knowledge with a solutions-based approach focusing on ways to increase security and improve efficiencies in your infrastructure.
Date: April 16, 2008
Place:
Do You Know?
Is open source the secure computing choice? Why are there two different opinions of open security in government? What does open source mean for my agency?
Attend this free Webinar and hear from Casey Coleman and representatives from the Federal Open Source Alliance who will review the results of the 2007 Federal Open Source Alliance Referendum study and discuss these and other open source questions.
Date: April 16th, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm
