Top members of the Senate Commerce, Intelligence, and Homeland Security committees introduced a long-awaited bill on Tuesday to address a wide range of cybersecurity issues in government and private industry....
Federal officials announced Dec. 8 the launch of FedRamp, an effort for low- and moderate- risk cloud services to gain common cybersecurity certification under the Federal Information Security Management Act. In a call with reporters, Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel said FedRamp ...
The Android operating system developed by Google and used in popular smartphones and tablets is expected to win approval for use on military networks that handle information with the Secret classification level by April 2012, Michael McCarthy, director of the Army’ssmartphone project, told N...
The United States and European Union have conducted their first-ever cybersecurity joint exercise, which was designed to improve collaboration and speed responses to cyber attacks. Lee Rock, acting director of US-CERT, told InformationWeek in an interview Friday that the Cyber Atlantic 2011 Exerci...
via Info Security Sean McGurk, director of the Control Systems Security Program in the DHS National Cyber Security Division (NCSD), told a House panel that Einstein 2, the federal government’s network intrusion detection system, registered a total of 5.4 million “hits” in 2010, an aver...
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 blog.forbes.com As federal spending on national security has leveled off in recent years, big defense contractors have worked hard to secure a role in one of the few market segments expected to keep growing: cyberwarfare. It’s a relatively new field where the terminology hasn’t stabilized ye...
via The Hill The number of attacks on federal government networks rose 40 percent last year according to a new White House report on cybersecurity. Federal agencies reported 41,776 attacks in fiscal 2010 after seeing 30,000 the previous year, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s ...