By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Is DHS’ acquisitions program becoming unaffordable? The DHS is under a lot of intense scrutiny lately to re-vamp their acquisition processes in the face of allegations and revelations of inefficiencies and waste. One specific exam...
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. DOE’s secret weapon: Supercomputers – ‘”The supercomputing facilities at the National Labs enable science of scale — that is, they provide resources for tackling complex science and engineering challenges that require mass...
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Obama makes three major personnel announcements – President Obama has announced the heads of three organizations, the OMB, the Department of Energy and the EPA. All of them have extensive experience in the government, specific...
“The same day shareholders of a Calgary-based energy company agreed to a takeover bid by a state firm from China, Canada’s spy agency is warning such purchases can pose a threat to national security. In its latest annual report, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says the majorit...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Navy has reduced it’s estimated cost for the Next-Generation Enterprise Network in roughly half to between $4.5 and $5.398 billion over five years. More here. NASA is investigating allegations that a team of Iran...
” In the interests of thwarting cyberattacks on critical infrastructure such as energy, water and manufacturing, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is quietly reaching out to other governments around the world to find what problems may exist elsewhere and what research can be shared to ...
The federal government’s plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans’ civil liberties....
The government is trying once again to whip the key players behind the country’s electrical grid into a security force that can defend against mounting cyber threats. The US Department of Energy today announced what it calls an “Electric Sector Cybersecurity Risk Management Maturity̶...