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Cybersecurity Gaps Across Government, New Monitoring Tool, and More

April 12, 2012 By AlexOlesker

This month, the Department of Energy, in working with the White House, Department of Homeland Security, and power companies, will test a voluntary reporting model to discover cybersecurity gaps in electricity delivery systems. More here. A researcher at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a cyber sensor to track how network activity relates to application [...]

Filed Under: Cyber Security, Education, Fed Cyber News & Blog, Requirements, Responses Tagged With: Chief information officer, Cybersecurity Gaps Across Government, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, electricity delivery systems, Energy in the United States, Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, FOSE 2012, Government Accountability Office, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, researcher, Rob Carey, United States Department of Defense, United States Department of Energy, United States Department of Homeland Security, US Federal Reserve, White House

International Cooperation in Cyberspace, Medical Device Security, and More

April 11, 2012 By AlexOlesker

The Defense Information Systems Agency is building its own smartphone application storefront to centrally manage and secure apps. More here. The nationwide initiative announced by the Federal Communications Commission to block service on stolen smartphones may reduce device resale but won’t protect data. More here. The Department of Defense is expanding international cooperation in cyberspace with the goal [...]

Filed Under: Cyber Security, Education, Fed Cyber News & Blog, Requirements, Responses, Solution Providers Tagged With: App Store, Army, Cybersecurity Coordinator, Defense Information Systems Agency, Department of Defense, Federal Communications Commission, Howard Schmidt, Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, Office of Management and Budget, OMB, Smartphone, Smartphones, White House, wireless medical devices

DHS Video Game Hacking, Expedited Cyber Weapons Acquisition, and More

April 10, 2012 By AlexOlesker

The Economic Development Administration (EDA) networks remain offline after being compromised by a virus over 80 days ago. More here. Though Smart Meters reduce traditional theft, the FBI found that hacking them can be very simple. More here. The Department of Homeland Security has awarded a contract to help them decode encrypted data on video game [...]

Filed Under: Cyber Security, Fed Cyber News & Blog, Incidents, Requirements, Responses, Solution Providers, Technology Tagged With: Computer network security, Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, Economic Development Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, industrial control systems, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, National security, Open government, Smart grid, Smart meter, Social security number, Utah, Veteran’s Benefits Administration, video game console

State Department WikiLeaks Countermeasures, Extreme-Scale Computing, and More

April 6, 2012 By AlexOlesker

State Department CIO Susan Swart says that since WikiLeaks the agency has been working on improving security for its classified networks and systems with measures such as auditing and monitoring tools, tagging information with metadata to enable role-based access, and an effort to implement public key infrastructure by summer 2014. More here. The Army awarded Area Processing [...]

Filed Under: Cyber Security, Fed Cyber News & Blog, Financial, Requirements, Responses, Solution Providers, Spending, Technology Tagged With: APC2, Area Processing Centers Army Private Cloud, Army, CIO, CJIS, Criminal Justice Information Services, Criterion Systems, data management, Department of State, Espionage, extreme-scale computing, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, General Dynamics, HP, IBM, Infrastructure, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Metadata, MicroTech, National security, Northrop Grumman, Public key infrastructure, Request for Proposals, RFP, Susan Swart, USD, WikiLeaks

Robot Jellyfish, Cell Phone Tracking Without Warrants, and More

April 3, 2012 By AlexOlesker

Funding by the Office of Naval Research has led to a robot jellyfish that runs on hydrogen and oxygen gas extracted from the sea and could eventually be used as self-sustaining ocean surveillance. More here. The state of Illinois and two regional governments in the Chicago area are offering citizens their open-data repositories in a [...]

Filed Under: Fed Cyber News & Blog, Financial, Responses, Solution Providers, Spending, Technology Tagged With: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, cell phones, cellular telephone, Chicago, CIO, federal CIO, Hydrogen vehicle, Illinois, Jellyfish, Law enforcement in the United States, Mobile phone, National security, Office of Naval Research, OMB, Oxygen, oxygen gas, PortfolioStat, Privacy, Steven VanRoekel, Surveillance, United States, warrant

3/28/2012: The DoD, the DHS, Losing in Cyberspace, and More

March 28, 2012 By AlexOlesker

Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency testified yesterday for the Senate Armed Services Committee. Alexander blamed China for many of cybersecurity threats but maintained that the DHS and not the DoD should be the lead in protecting government and critical infrastructure, with the DoD assisting with [...]

Filed Under: Cyber Security, Fed Cyber News & Blog, Incidents, Requirements, Responses Tagged With: assistant director, China, commander, Computer network security, Cyberspace, Department of Defense, director, enemy computer networks, Federal Bureau of Investigation, FISMA, General, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Keith Alexander, LulzSec, LulzSec Reborn, National Cyber Security Center, National security, National Security Agency, Office of Management and Budget, President, private networks, Senate Armed Services Committee, Shawn Henry, U.S Cyber Command, U.S. government, United States Cyber Command, United States Department of Homeland Security, Utah Data Center

3/23/2012: Continuous Identity Verification for DARPA, Compromised DoD Networks, and More

March 23, 2012 By AlexOlesker

Major Internet Service Providers including AT&T, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon have agreed to the FCC’s Communications, Security, Reliability, and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) plan to fight botnets, domain name fraud and Internet route hijacking. More here. David McClure of the GSA’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies predicts that FISMA standards will ease federal concerns over cloud [...]

Filed Under: Cyber Security, Fed Cyber News & Blog, Requirements, Responses, Solution Providers, Technology Tagged With: Army Cyber Command, AT&T Corp., Botnet, Comcast, Comcast Corporation, Compromised DoD Networks, CSRIC, DARPA, Department of Defense, DoD, FCC's Communications Security Reliability and Interoperability Council, Federal Communications Commission, FISMA, GSA, GSA's Office of Citizen Services, Information Systems Analysis Center, Innovative Technologies, Internet route hijacking, Internet service providers, James Peery, Major Internet Service Providers, Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Labs, Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Time Warner Cable, Time Warner Cable Inc., Verizon, Verizon Communications, Verizon Communications Inc.

3/21/2012: Cyber Rules of Engagement, A More Dangerous Cyberspace, and More

March 21, 2012 By AlexOlesker

The Joint Staff and Office of Secretary of Defense’s Office of Policy are working on unified rules of engagement for cyberspace that should be ready within the next two months. More here. The House Armed Services Committee told top defense officials at a hearing that the Department of Defense, not Homeland Security, should be tasked with defending [...]