By ChrisScott Why would DON CIO’s Terry Halvorsen take a team of senior SES’s to Japan this week, in the middle of a No-Travel-Environment that is keeping ships in port, airplanes on the ground and everyone else chained to their desks counting their pay cuts? In his own words: he’s trying to â...
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By Jose Nazario Wow, what a month. Two big stories to note: USCC is seeking to grow over 5x to 4900 people, and the NYTimes (and WSJ it seems) have been hacked, purportedly by the Chinese over their China coverage. In other news, a new discovery of the ‘Red October’ campaign filled the h...
via Hillicon Valley The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) seventh annual conference on cybersecurity began on Sunday in Nashville. The event is hosted by the Homeland Security agency in charge of responding to cyber-attacks on the nation’s non-military networks, the U.S. Computer E...
via ISRIA Seven years after the release of the 9/11 Commission report, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today released a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report highlighting the significant progress that DHS, along with its many partners, have made in fulfilling specific recommen...
via The National Journal The United States needs a “gold standard” in cyber-defenses, Sens. Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Susan Collins, R-Maine., and Tom Carper, D-Del., said in a Washington Post op-ed Friday. The alternative to better cybersecurity measures, they wrote, “could be a di...
via Military & Aerospace Electronics ROME, N.Y., 18 May 2011. Military cyber security experts in the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate in Rome, N.Y., are readying an industry solicitation for release in July for the 5-year, potential $300 million Agile Cyber Tech...
via SC Magazine Five days after RSA announced that its systems were breached by a sophisticated attack, details remain scant about how customers of its SecurID two-factor authentication products may be affected. Still, that hasn’t stopped many in the security community from speculating. Here a...