Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano emphasized in her keynote speech at the RSA conference last week the need for greater collaboration between the government and private sector in order to effectively address cybersecurity challenges facing the…
During yesterday’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, a panel of security experts urged the government to do more to push public and private sector action on critical infrastructure protection and Internet…
Responses to a simulation yesterday of a large-scale cyber attack that supposed a widespread malware infection has shut down cell phone and computer networks and disabled much of the power grid showed a lack of preparedness…
As the Department of Defense continues its efforts to improve security provisions and practices for handling its information — especially with respect to sensitive but unclassified data — it is expanding its focus beyond its own…
Now that the House nearly unanimously passed its Cybersecurity Enhancement Act earlier this month, some attention has turned to the plethora of similar draft legislation in the Senate with speculation over which of the bills is…
Interesting post from GovInfoSecurity.com’s Eric Chabrow a couple of days ago, in which he borrows some conclusions from a Frontline documentary on the airline industry called “Flying Cheap” and applies them to the current debate about…
Based on details about IT security spending in the publicly available fiscal 2011 budget estimates for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), one area of emphasis for improving cybersecurity for military networks is to reduce their…
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