The Department of Homeland Security recently released FY2011 CIO FISMA Reporting version 1.0, which has some interesting updates from prior requests.
Their new guidance that really caught my attention, however, is a working draft released by NIST that shows the DHS top 20 security controls for FISMA are “negatively impacted” by virtualization. No details or clarification of those terms has yet been posted, just this list.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released their initial draft of a security impediment and mitigation list for cloud computing.
Mission Local discusses a new map that overlays cupcake shops with gang territory
I am disappointed that the overlay does not have homicide data mapped, since that is the underlying data that makes the story interesting.
Is the occasional shoot-out bad for business? To the clientele of the St. Francis Fountain, four blocks east on 24th and a hangout for the young and hip: No.
“This is the best place in town for breakfast,†said Tex, a small man in denim work clothes drinking coffee Thursday morning at the counter.
He feels safe in the Mission as a whole, though he’s been warned to be careful to not seem especially gay anywhere around the intersection of 24th and Mission. “What I was told was, there are these gangs from El Salvador, and to be in the gang you have to kill a queer.
The data on crime is publicly available, as I have written before. It might be easiest to map cupcakes to the 3D maps already created to show areas with peak crime.
Insightful interview by Afropop with an amazing artist about his new album, sources of inspiration and the decline of Zulu guitar.
All the happiest music comes out of the saddest places…you are humanised in a bigger dehumanising context.