Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Howard Schmidt, the White House cybersecurity coordinator, will be stepping down at the end of this month. More here. Bruce McConnell, cyber-security counselor for the Department of Homeland Security, warned that if the pr...
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Diverse Accessible Heterogeneous Integration (DAHI) program has committed $80 million to research in advanced microprocessors that combine materials on one chip. More here. The Department of Defense’s Sustainment Center of...
While cyber-attacks continue to be a threat to the United States and its economy, a Department of Homeland Security network security expert said the government alone should not prescribe how the nation’s computers are kept safe. With millions of computers falling victim infectious software, most e...
via The Wall Street Journal Companies are hiring chief information-security officers and spending ever-increasing sums to protect their communications networks and databases from attack. Bruce McConnell, a senior cybersecurity official with the Department of Homeland Security, sat down with The Wall...
via Discovery News Computer scientists and IT engineers are increasingly looking to the human immune system as a model for preventing attacks by cyber-hackers. They hope that in the near future computers will be able to communicate among themselves, recognize threats, and be able to monitor their ow...