“A newly created State Department Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues, unveiled in a 242-page report issued Wednesday, is charged with uniting different parts of the department working on cyber matters to more effectively advance America’s cybersecurity interests. The new post was...
via DefenseSystems.com The Defense Department has a new cyberspace sandbox for training exercises and for testing the limits of software applications. The Defense Department Information Assurance Range is designed to provide an operationally realistic simulation of the Global Information Grid,...
via Federal News Radio Starting this week, the Navy will begin using a new 24-hour operations center at its fledgling Fleet Cyber Command — and begin to fix a problem that its commander said is one of the military’s biggest deficiencies in the area of cybersecurity. None of the armed ser...
via Info Security In its report, Federal Information Security Market 2010–2015, INPUT cites a number of factors contributing to the growth in government cybersecurity spending: a 445% increase in government cybersecurity incidents since 2006, a shortage of qualified security professionals, an inc...
via eweek.com The National Security Agency appears to be taking some old advice to heart—assume your organization will be compromised. Debora Plunkett, head of the NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate, said as much Dec. 16 at a cyber-security forum sponsored by the Atlantic and Gover...
via federaltimes.com Chief information officers have three months to identify a minimum of three systems they deem suitable for cloud operations and to create a strategy for moving them. A year from now, at least one of the three systems must be operating in a cloud environment, and by June 2012, al...
“The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft of its guidelines for implementing enterprisewide information risk management. The document defines the underlying principles for implementing the Federal Information Security Management Act. ‘This is the capstone docum...
“Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday asserted cybersecurity is a civilian domain, not a military battlefield or private sector jurisdiction, as some critics of federal cyber policy have argued. ‘Some categorize the challenge as one for the market, or a looming war,&#...