The Defense Department’s planned Cyber Command isn’t designed to militarize cyberspace, the Army lieutenant general picked to lead the command told senators today during his confirmation hearing.
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Although agencies are improving cybersecurity at the national level, the federal approach to securing US interests online still leaves much to be desired, a high-ranking Obama administration official said.
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GAO finds implementations of TIC, FFDC lacking
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Clarus Research Group conducted a survey of attitudes among federal research managers on cybersecurity challenges that confront them in the year ahead.
IT associations have written to Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe to protest some provisions in their Cybersecurity Act of 2010.
Sens. Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe reintroduce a cybersecurity bill, which clears the Senate commerce committee.
The Department of Homeland Security plans to work with a commercial Internet service provider and one federal agency to carry out a pilot test of Einstein 3, an intrusion detection and prevention system that will eventually be used to bolster federal agencies' information security postures.
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The Senate sergeant-at-arms has requested $1 million for the cybersecurity of the congressional chamber in 2011.
A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others.
White House cyber coordinator Howard Schmidt last week announced the declassification of some information on the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.
OMB disagrees with GAO finding
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Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) called a hearing of the Armed Services Committee to solicit private sector perspectives on how the Defense Department could improve its cybersecurity activities.
The 2010 iteration of the RSA Security Conference which opens Monday in San Francisco will feature an impressive array of influential government heavyweights among its featured keynote speakers.
The Bipartisan Policy Center sponsored a wargame called the Cyber Shockwave, which demonstrated to leaders last week that the federal government might not have the authority to properly respond to a massive cyber attack.
Massive helium-filled blimps known as “aerostats” have been a fixture in the skies over the Texas-Mexico border since at least the early 1990s. Authorities use them to provide long-term surveillance of illegal immigration and drug-trafficking.
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Author of US policy review looks at past year of cybersecurity
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The White House's proposed fiscal 2011 budget would continue to finance the National Cybersecurity Center, intended to be the operations hub for cyber defense efforts at the Department of Homeland Security.
Research paper explores analogies between 1950s civil defense and current cybersecurity challenges.