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Is my company required to register under ITAR?
A frequently asked compliance question among government contracts firms is whether they are required to register under the International Traffic In Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). ITAR are the State Department controls that regulate defense products, technical data and...
ITAR Compliance in Office 365
The world of government data is surrounded by regulation. Whether that’s FedRAMP compliance, DFARS compliance, and the upcoming Cybersecurity Maturity Model Compliance framework(CMMC) — operating as a government entity (or as a contractor who handles government data)...
Who needs to be ITAR registered?
I often encounter misconceptions about the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Among the biggest sources of confusion is registering as a Manufacturer, Exporter or Broker under the ITAR. Let’s clear up the confusion and shed some light on the matter. Let...
Amazon plans to upskill 100,000 employees. Here’s what that means for the future of work
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees—a third of its U.S. workforce—in new technologies is the latest reminder that the much-heralded future of work is well underway. Policy makers, analysts, and...
LinkedIn is migrating to Microsoft Azure
LinkedIn today announced it is swapping out its datacenters for the public cloud. The Microsoft-owned company is moving its infrastructure to Azure as part of a multi-year migration. We sat down with Mohak Shroff, LinkedIn’s SVP of engineering, to discuss one of the...
Amazon Just Announced It Will Pay Employees $10,000 and 3-Months Salary to Quit and Do This Instead
Amazon is breaking paradigms everywhere these days. They have competitors of all kinds reeling and are innovating on everything from retail store format to how a HQ location is selected. They’re at it again, announcing this week, of all...