By Charles Hall If you’re interested in cyber security and operations at the federal level, check out the AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium. This event combines the JIE Mission Partners Symposium and the International Cyber Symposium to increase dialogue among key participants, br...
The SANS Institute announced on December 27 that the DHS National Cyber Security Division and Idaho National Laboratory have won the 2011U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for building cybersecurity skills needed to defend the power grid and other control systems....
The Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity leadership is losing yet another senior official. Nicole Dean, the director of DHS’s National Cyber Security Division (NCSD), announced recently she is leaving government on Jan. 22, according to an email she sent to staff in the National ...
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 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 Info Security Rep. Jim Langevin (D-RI) has introduced legislation that would expand the Department of Homeland Security’s authority over private networks determined to be part of US critical infrastructure. The bill, the Executive Cyberspace Coordination Act, would give the Department of H...
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 InformationWeek Government The President’s fiscal 2012 budget, released on Monday, calls for $79.5 billion in federal IT spending next year, an increase of 1.3% over the estimated $78.5 billion the government will spend on IT this year and a 1.9% increase over the 2009 enacted IT budget of...