Editor’s note: This post by Sean Lawson provides context on cyber conflict, an area of interest at the nexus of national security and technology. – bg For the last two years, I have been calling attention to the generally poor quality of the public policy debate about cybersecurity in ...
via Nextgov The Pentagon this fall expects to make permanent and expand a test program through which the Defense Department shared classified intelligence on cyber threats with select contractors to better secure commercial networks serving the military. The trial that ran from May 9 through Sept. 1...
via Urgent Communications Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week addressed the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) to testify about the ongoing efforts of the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security and NSTAC to safeguard the nation’...
via InformationWeek Government The Obama administration’s cybersecurity legislative proposal gives the Department of Homeland Security more power than ever to protect federal networks against cyberthreats and breaks down the department’s communication barriers with the Department of Defe...
via The Hill The Senate Commerce Committee has postponed indefinitely a major hearing on cybersecurity. Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) announced that the hearing scheduled for Thursday on cyber vulnerabilities in the private sector will not be held. The FBI, Verizon and IBM were all scheduled to...
via cnet News A top Defense Department official said today that the U.S. military should “extend” a technological shield used to protect its own networks to important private sector computers as well, which could sweep in portions of the Internet and raise civil liberty concerns. William...