via Reuters Sony Corp picked a former official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games networks. Philip Reitinger, previously director of the...
via gov info security Deputy Secretary William Lynn III, the Defense Department‘s point man on cybersecurity, says he will leave his job as the No. 2 DoD executive when a replacement is in place. Lynn helped create DoD’s strategy to protect the military’s and nation’s digital...
via Federal Times The Department of Homeland Security plans to grow its cybersecurity workforce by more than 50 percent, as lawmakers and the White House work to expand the department’s authority in securing both government and private-sector websites. By October 2012, DHS’ cyber staff w...
“The Department of Homeland Security plans to grow its cybersecurity workforce by more than 50 percent, as lawmakers and the White House work to expand the department’s authority in securing both government and private-sector websites. By October 2012, DHS’ cyber staff will grow fr...
via Bank Info Security Philip Reitinger, the top cybersecurity official in the Department of Homeland Security, is on a mission to help create a new, secure computing ecosystem on the Internet. The deputy undersecretary of DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate – the highest ...
via Info Security Automation, interoperability, and authentication are the three security building blocks to create more secure and resilient networks, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) white paper. “If these building blocks were incorporated into cyber devices and pr...
via Government Computer News It wasn’t an official theme of last month’s conference, but the common thread running through comments from government officials speaking at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco was the need for cooperation and collaboration between government and the private...
via InformationWeek Working together is critical to managing cybersecurity risk successfully, but not everyone is on the same page when it comes to how to collaborate effectively, particularly when partnerships stretch across the divide between the public and private sector. At the RSA Conference in...