The Joint Staff and Office of Secretary of Defense’s Office of Policy are working on unified rules of engagement for cyberspace that should be ready within the next two months. More here. The House Armed Services Committee told top defense officials at a hearing that the Department of Defense, n...
Is America at war in cyberspace? In the face of increasingly brazen cyber attacks against our country, the Obama administration established the first military command devoted to cyberspace, U.S. Cyber Command, in 2010. And the Pentagon has issued a new declaratory policy in which the United States a...
via Nextgov An Obama administration decision to relax agency reporting rules for complying with cybersecurity mandates by instead requiring automated data feeds about threats could relegate risk management to a back-office function and leave senior executives out of the loop, some auditors say. This...
via Nextgov The Obama administration has rescinded a much-maligned, paper-intensive requirement that agencies test the security controls on computer systems every three years or when upgraded. This year, the annual instructions for complying with the 2002 Federal Information Security Act, or FISMA, ...
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 ThomasNet News The U.S. Department of Commerce’s (DoC) Internet Policy Task Force has issued a Federal Register notice seeking public comment on its cybersecurity report released on June 8. Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy recommends consideration of a new framework for a...
via Tech News World Between the repeated attacks on the United States government’s IT infrastructure by foreign hackers and incursions by LulzSec, a hacker community whose members wandered in and out of government cybersystems before publicly disbanding this week, it’s not difficult to c...
via The Hillicon Valley The Senate Judiciary Committee will wade into the cybersecurity debate Tuesday with a hearing on the Obama administration’s legislative proposal in front of the subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, chaired by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). The Judiciary Committee is ...