November 20, 2009 4:15 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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Computer security,
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Government,
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Security,
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United States Department of Homeland SecurityHow did the first U.S. “cyber czar” describe his time as the nation’s assistant secretary for Cybersecurity and Communications (CS&C)? Quoting Mark Twain, Greg Garcia observed that “a man who carries a cat by a tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
It was “like a...
November 19, 2009 6:24 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
U.S. Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) this week introduced H.R. 4098, “The Secure Federal File Sharing Act,” which would require the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance to prohibit the personal use of peer-to-peer file-sharing software by government employees.
Towns, who sits on...
November 17, 2009 10:55 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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United States Department of Health and Human ServicesA new study of top government IT executives conducted by the Ponemon Institute identified outsourcing, cyberterrorism and an increasingly mobile workforce as significant threats to data, government systems and the nation’s critical infrastructure.
IT executives from the Departments of Defense,...
November 9, 2009 10:10 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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United States Central Command,
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White HouseYesterday, CBS News' 60 Minutes devoted its opening story to cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure in the United States, including the power grid, financial systems and military information systems. Threatpost, the information security blog associated with Kaspersky Labs, has...
November 6, 2009 10:10 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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U.S. CIO Vivek KundraU.S. CIO Vivek Kundra, appearing Friday as the keynote speaker at the University of Maryland's CIO Forum, touched on a number of topics affecting both public- and private-sector CIOs. Some of his comments follow:
“We found that the role of CIOs in the federal government is very much focused on...
November 2, 2009 9:30 PM
Posted by: GuyPardon
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cybersecurity threats,
cyberwar,
DDoS,
Federal Emergency Management Agency,
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Melissa Hathaway,
National security,
Security,
United States,
White HouseMelissa Hathaway, former acting senior director for cyberspace for the National Security and Homeland Security councils, spoke of the need for better public-private cooperation at a cybersecurity...
