81 percent of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised by at least one malware, botnet, or other cyber-attack during the past two years, according to the 2015 KPMG Healthcare Cybersecurity Survey. In fact, only half feel that they are adequately prepared in preventing attacks. In polling 223 chief information officers, chief […]
Pivotal Software supervisors honored by Department of Defense with Patriotic Employer Awards
PALO ALTO, Calif. –Bob Vail, Director Information Security at Pivotal Software, was awarded the Patriotic Employer Award along with three other Patriot Award recipients including; Drew Kramer, Chris Curtis, and Ken Baylor, respectively. Pivotal Software, Inc. (Pivotal) is a software company based in San Francisco, California that provides software and services for the development […]
Naval ensign sees drug-free route to freedom, success
Navy Reserve Ensign Bob Zinga came to Alabama in 1996 after leaving his home in the Congo in Central Africa. For Zinga, whose mother brought him to the United States for college, education is everything. ‘My mom wanted me to have the best education in the world,’ he said. ‘And it was here in […]
Team brings virtualization expertise to carrier personnel
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) NetOps Support Team (NST) Fly-Away Team (FAT) Reserve component recently provided IT training support to the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS John C. Stennis during a detachment to Naval Station Kitsap Bremerton. Training classes took place March 16-20.
Program helps students learn how to say “no” to drugs
Raised in the Congo, Bob Fabien Zinga came to the United States to pursue freedom and educational opportunities. After earning a degree from the University of Alabama and joining the U.S. Navy Reserve, Zinga is now using the story of his journey for freedom to teach about a different type of freedom — freedom from […]
UA administrators honored for National Guard support
TUSCALOOSA, Alabama — Five University of Alabama administrators have been honored with Patriotic Employer awards from the National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve or ESGR. The honorees include Judy Bonner, John McGowan, Louis Pitschmann, Teri Terry and Ashley Ewing. The awards were recently presented by ESGR volunteer James Ramage. The recipients […]