The Department of Defense is staring at a classic enterprise IT challenge, only on a massive scale. Facing billions of dollars in budget cuts, the DOD must decide where to invest its IT dollars in order to save money across its operations, and where to pinch IT spending. But with national security o...
via Techworld The new Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace, issued by the US Department of Defense on Thursday, covers a collection of topics that have been discussed for years and leaves a number of important unanswered questions, critics said. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn unveiled the ...
via Gov Info Security By William Lynn III Deputy Secretary of Defense The Department of Defense, in partnership with the Department of Homeland Security, has established a pilot program with a handful of defense companies. This program provides these companies with more robust protection for their n...
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...
via Security News Daily The Pentagon is about to add cyberspace as a legitimate battlefield, a senior Defense Department official told attendees at the RSA security conference in San Francisco yesterday (Feb. 15). “Our military must be as capable in this new domain as it is in more traditional...
via Network World In his keynote Tuesday at RSA Conference 2011, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn III said the Department Of Defense (DoD) is set to soon complete a new cyber security strategy that will explicitly recognize cyberspace as a new and official warfare domain. Dubbed Cyber 3...
via InformationWeek Working together is critical to managing cybersecurity risk successfully, but not everyone is on the same page when it comes to how to collaborate effectively, particularly when partnerships stretch across the divide between the public and private sector. At the RSA Conference in...
via InformationWeek Department of Defense officials, including deputy secretary of defense William Lynn, are meeting with NATO and European Union officials in Brussels, Belgium, this week to discuss how they can work together on cybersecurity issues. Lynn will be meeting with NATO’s secretary ...