The Department of Defense (DOD) has made information technology reform an important part of its agenda throughout the Obama administration, and efforts to overhaul the department are finally starting to bear fruit. Within the last few months, the DOD formally shuttered the office of the assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration (ASD/NII); [...]
New national counterintelligence chief named
February 23, 2012 By
The U.S. has a new national counterintelligence executive. Frank Montoya, Jr. joined the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Feb. 6 from the FBI’s Honolulu Division, where he was the special agent-in-charge. His appointment comes at a critical time, as cyber-attacks on U.S government and commercial systems are at an all-time high. The [...]
AlienVault’s Open Threat Exchange
February 23, 2012 By
National security strategies frequently stress the need and desirability for information sharing to counter cyber security threats. But while they have few concrete proposals, business is going ahead on its own. AlienVault, creator and manager of the OSSIM open source SIEM platform, has launched the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (AV-OTX); a cloud-based threat intelligence sharing [...]
CACI Awarded $41 Million Task Order to Continue Development of Defense Agencies Initiative Solutio
February 23, 2012 By
ARLINGTON, Va., Feb 23, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — CACI International Inc CACI announced today that it has been awarded a $41 million task order to continue as lead developer of the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) solution sponsored by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA). This task order falls under the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Encore [...]
FCC Chief Asks Internet Providers to Strengthen Network Security
February 22, 2012 By
Internet-service providers should adopt an industrywide standard to help keep hackers from taking over customers’ computers, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said. Providers of high-speed Internet service, such as Comcast Corp. and AT&T Inc., need to create a code of conduct to help protect against so-called botnets that secretly infect computers, Genachowski said in [...]
NIST Cybersecurity Center Tackles Public And Private Threats
February 22, 2012 By
The organization that sets federal technology standards is establishing a new center devoted to cybersecurity technology research across both the public and private sectors. A partnership between the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the state of Maryland, and Montgomery County, Md., will create the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, where NIST researchers can [...]
Rapid adoption of mobile technologies brings new challenges to health care settings
February 22, 2012 By
A new Government Health IT survey found that only 56 percent of government health IT and security professionals believe their organizations are in full compliance with current security and privacy requirements, while 60 percent said they have a holistic security strategy in place. While privacy and security of patient health information has long been a [...]
IBM eyes cybersecurity market with new platform
February 22, 2012 By
International Business Machines (IBM.N) is gearing up to take a chunk of the growing Internet security market by applying its data analytics to help companies and organizations fight cyberattacks. IBM said on Wednesday that its QRadar Security Intelligence Platform allowed it to analyze real-time data feeds from more than 400 different sources. QRadar identifies abnormal [...]
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