For those of us who work in and around the enterprise security domain something unique has just happened. The U.S. Government has just approved a commercial consumer device, the Samsung Galaxy family of devices, for classified info. This means government organizations can establish new, smarter, mor...
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By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Survey: Mobile, cloud computing are source of most healthcare security worries – ‘The study, “The Risk of Regulated Data on Mobile Devices & in the Cloud,” which surveyed 781 IT and data security practiti...
By ChrisScott Any warfighter that has ever tried to implement an innovative IT solution to a real world problem has run up against the seemingly endless requirements imposed on solutions in the name of security. Of course, we understand the necessity of this, but it can often be quite frustrating ...
By JonathanTabb The U.S. Government needs a robust cyber workforce immediately and for the foreseeable future. The challenge in achieving such a large team of geeks is threefold; it must recruit skilled young individuals, it must continuously train them, and it must improve its ability to retain its...
“The US government is investigating claims that a flaw in Siemens’ networking equipment could enable hackers to attack power plants and other critical systems. A security expert said that he had found a backdoor in hardware from a Siemens subsidiary, RuggedCom.” Source: BBC News – Siemens ...
You know by now that cyber attacks are a growing threat to US government data facilities, critical infrastructure and American businesses. Thursday at RSA Conference 2012, FBI Director Robert Mueller will explain how the threat has been a game changer for his agency....
Former National Security Agency director Mike McConnell urged cloud companies to have a political opinion today, stating the US government is moving “very, very slowly to address [cloud] threats.”...
The notorious Internet hacking group, Anonymous, may soon have the ability to attack the entire US power grid, the head of the country’s National Security Agency has warned. ...