Obama Administration Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt outlined priorities for agencies to secure federal IT systems. Goals include 95 percent utilization of critical administration cybersecurity capabilities on IT systems, continuous monitoring, and strong authentication. More here. Secre...
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...
Homeland Security and Defense officials are advocating for a Senate bill that would concentrate computer defense authorities at DHS and the Pentagon’s National Security Agency. In debating how best to thwart a devastating attack on critical U.S. networks, the case has been made that Defense is...
The percentage of US hospitals using health information technology such as Electronic Health Records has more than doubled in the last two years, according to an announcement by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as she visited a Health Science Institute in Kansas City, ...
The guest list was impressive: assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan; Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stephanie O’Sullivan; Director of the National Security Agency Keith Alexander; Ch...
Members of the House Homeland Security Committee unveiled legislation Thursday that would authorize the cybersecurity functions of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and establish a quasi-governmental entity to coordinate cybersecurity information-sharing with the private sector. The bill, ca...
Army officials met Dec. 13 for the first in a series of meetings on its strategy to more aggressively consolidate data centers. Not only does the Army claim 200, or 25 percent, of the 800 federal data centers the Office of Management and Budget identified as eligible for consolidation by fiscal 2015...
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...