On Monday, 8 June 2015, Tony Scott, Chief Information Officer for President Obama, issued a memorandum that requires all federal websites and services to switch to HTTPS, a more secure method of connection than plain HTTP, by December 31, 2016. This change means all traffic is treated as sensitiv...
By Charles Hall If you’re interested in cyber security and operations at the federal level, check out the AFCEA Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium. This event combines the JIE Mission Partners Symposium and the International Cyber Symposium to increase dialogue among key participants, br...
By Katie Kennedy Every year for 19 Years Symantec has produced an Internet Security Threat Report, capturing insights which can inform defenses. Their April 2014 report has proven to be particularly insightful, foreshadowing many of the events seen from that month to today. For example, in 2012...
By Bob Gourley In what could be a very virtuous trend, four of the cyber security industry’s leading tech vendors (Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, McAfee and Symantec) have established a consortium focused on the furtherance of the art and science of cyber threat intelligence. This alliance, started...
As a technologist I have long respected Symantec and their many capabilities (they do far more than antivirus, see the list here). But the hottest firms in cyber security, those growing because they make real, measurable, virtuous differences in enterprise security, are growing because they reali...
By Bob Gourley DC seems to have a cyber security related event every week. No kidding. You have to pick and chose and only go to the best or you will never get any work done. How do you pick the right events? My recommendation is to look for events that have a good mix […]...
Editor’s note: this is part of our series on FedCyber Summit sponsors. We especially appreciate our sponsors. They show a great appreciation for the federal cyber security mission and we want to bring attention to them here as a way of showing our gratitude. Carahsoft Technology Corp. is the ...
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top news and stories of the day. Vendors Question DISA’s Cloud Cost-Saving Claims – “Some contractors are questioning whether the Defense Department’s planned $450 million cloud-computing project will offer the most cost-effective solutions for its customers or m...