As the US Federal government moves quickly to adopt cloud computing, these and other attacks serve to highlight the implementation of new continuous monitoring security policies.

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So, if evolution is to produce change, it must work more by the accretion of new components than by the continuous re-engineering of existing ones.

ECONOMIST: The first complete DNA sequence of an animal is now in the bag

Final note: CATCH (the Center for Assessment Technology and Continuous Health), the new (non-profit) Boston-based innovation initiative I recently co-founded with MGH Chief-of-Medicine Dennis Ausiello (who will lead the effort) and several others, seeks precisely this balance between potential and attained health.

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