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Criticism of delays in coordinating national emergency communication

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New, quick method for identifying food-borne diseases

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NASA's UAV helps fight California wild fires

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Evidence of acid rain supports meteorite theory of Tunguska catastrophe

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Midwest floods to create record dead zone in Gulf of Mexico

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Better picture of what lies beneath the Earth's surface

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Talking cybersecurity with Unisys' Tim Kelleher

What Is Keeping Your COO Awake at Night?

Created from the combination, in 1986, of Sperry and Burroughs, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based Unisys claims a heritage of 100-plus years of experience in many areas of information technology -- so many, in fact, that recently the company decided the time had come for an exercise in self-definition. Not an overhaul of any kind, this was to be simply an effort to identify the main streams of proficiency in a firm that was active in a broad field of endeavor.

"We asked ourselves, what do we do best?" Tim Kelleher, vice president of enterprise security for Unisys, told Homeland Security Daily Wire. "We have a rich portfolio and we're not changing it. But we wanted to package it up, make it easier to grasp. We recognized five primary areas and determined we would concentrate on them."

In the key area of security (the others are outsourcing, Microsoft, open source, and real time infrastructure), Unisys saw itself as an especially strong player, with mastery ranging from physical to applications to network to management: what Kelleher termed "this mile-wide breadth of security capabilities that we'd amassed."

In contrast to other providers of IT services that partake in one portion of risk management, Unisys not only helps organizations manage enterprise risk, it also uncovers and evaluates a company's vulnerabilities, recommends a solution, and integrates a system that affords the organization improved risk control. more