By Bill Ferrarini, Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at SunGard Public Sector, and CISQ Member Most companies will use these terms interchangeably, but the truth is Quality Assurance is a preventative method while Quality Control is an Identifier. Don’t go shooting the messenger on this one, I know that each and... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, CISQ Last week a hacker known as “w0rm” attacked the Wall St. Journal website. W0rm is a hacker (or group of hackers) known to infiltrate news websites, post screenshots on Twitter as evidence, and solicit the sale of database information and credentials. Information stolen from... Read more →

By Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) In case you didn’t catch this interview with Anders Wallgren, CTO of Electric Cloud, I’m circulating it here. On August 8, 2014 Anders was interviewed by StickyMinds editor, Cameron Philipp-Edmonds about the recent Honda recall and lessons learned (and... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, CISQ About 2 months ago a blog article was written for the NDIA, exposing the difficulties of buying new IT systems by the Defense Department. Pentagon acquisitions chief Frank Kendall was on the hot seat during an April 30th hearing. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman...... Read more →