By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Physical and Cyber Infrastructure Protection Working Together – This Federal News Radio show examines how physical protection can meld with cybersecurity to increase the security paradigm. This interview included Suzanne Spau...
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Office of Personnel Management has decreased the average length of a federal background investigation from 145 to 36 days with electronic forms and increased automation. More here. Rep. Mike McCaul proposes reversing ...
Mark Weatherford, California’s former chief information security officer, will lead cybersecurity efforts for the federal government. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed Weatherford on Thursday to the newly created position of deputy under secretary for cybersecurity. The appoin...
The House is poised to vote on a measure that would not create a permanentHomeland Security Department cybersecurity office, after a committee on Thursday passed authorization legislation that does not mention the program. The move represents a departure from the Senate’s version of the bil...
While cyber-attacks continue to be a threat to the United States and its economy, a Department of Homeland Security network security expert said the government alone should not prescribe how the nation’s computers are kept safe. With millions of computers falling victim infectious software, most e...
The National Protection and Programs Directorate, the Department of Homeland Security agency that handles many of the government’s cybersecurity responsibilities is about to get a makeover in the wake of the departure of former deputy undersecretary Phil Reitinger. The directorate, among other...
The Homeland Security Department continues to shift cybersecurity oversight chairs. Suzanne Spaulding is the new deputy undersecretary for the department’s National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), according to an email from Rand Beers, DHS under secretary of NPPD, obtained by Feder...
via Network World The Department of Homeland Security works with financial institutions to thwart cyber attacks and plans to do so more and more in the future, according to DHS testimony to Congress, including sharing top secret cyber intelligence. “To achieve our shared goals, we need to incr...