via Nextgov A House committee is poised to advance legislation to protect classified information — and avoid gross losses, such as those suffered during the WikiLeaks breach — by requiring the installation of a centralized instrument for detecting unauthorized behavior on all military ne...
via Federal Computer Week Defense Department CIO Teri Takai on April 21 cautioned against jumping too quickly into cloud computing. “If we move to a cloud environment with today’s technology, it would make the world worse, not better…from an enterprise perspective [and] from a secu...
via Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — The attack lacked the explosive impact of a roadside bomb or the visceral threat of incoming bullets. Defending against it wasn’t a matter of finding cover and returning fire. This was a new kind of war. The only giveaway the United States was being tar...
via NDIA The Pentagon spends $400 billion a year on products and services, but still cannot always find the goodies it really needs. Some of the technologies on the Pentagon’s wish list exist in the larger marketplace, but are supplied by companies that shy away from government contracting or may ...
via Nextgov Troops in the Middle East should soon have faster, safer access to the latest computers on the market, as a result of a small disk the Defense Department developed that instantly standardizes the security settings on Microsoft Windows desktops deployed overseas, Pentagon officials said. ...
via Stars and Stripes Some Pentagon computer networks might have been laid open to intruders as a result of a recent electronic break-in at one of the nation’s most prominent cybersecurity firms. Earlier this month, RSA announced that an unknown attacker had launched an “extremely sophis...
via Nextgov How much does the military plan to spend on cybersecurity next year? The answer depends on whom you ask and when. In mid-February, the White House proposed spending $2.3 billion on cybersecurity at the Defense Department in the release of its 2012 budget request. Simultaneously, Air Forc...
via BizJournals Protecting military networks in fiscal 2012 will cost $3.2 billion, nearly $1 billion more than the government said last month, according to a new report in Nextgov.com. The report said the increase that reflects the growing number of programs being re-categorized as cyber security-r...