via All Things D Vivek Kundra is the Chief Information Officer of the United States of America. Not many people know that there is such a position-he is the first, appointed by President Obama in 2009-let alone what the position entails. But when you consider that the federal government collectively...
via National Journal Phil Reitinger, the Department of Homeland Security’s top cyber and computer crimes official, is resigning just days after the administration launched its most ambitious cybersecurity initiative. “I have decided that the time has come for me to move on from the Depar...
via Secure Computing Dan Geer, the highly regarded chief information security officer for the CIA’s investment arm, In-Q-Tel, will next month launch the Cyber Security Index, which could be a precursor to trading IT risks on financial markets. The “sentiment-based” Cyber Security I...
via Nextgov Federal officials on Wednesday released a list of 137 government data centers slated to close by the end of the year.The information they hold will either be consolidated into other data centers or moved to rented space in a public or private cloud. Thirty-nine of those data centers alre...
via Associated Free Press SAN FRANCISCO — The agency in charge of the world’s Internet addresses on Thursday appointed veteran hacker Jeff Moss to be its chief of security. Moss, whose hacker name is Dark Tangent, is the founder of Black Hat computer security conferences as well as an infamo...
via Gov Info Security Recognizing the reality of cyberthreats doesn’t mean that organizations take the proper actions to prevent them. That’s a takeaway of a new survey of IT security executives in energy sector conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (the public ...
via SC Magazine A plan aimed at streamlining efficiencies in the federal government’s use of IT technologies is making its way toward a hearing on Capitol Hill on April 12. The “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management,” introduced last Decem...
via Federal Times The Homeland Security Department needs hundreds of information technology workers — especially in the cybersecurity arena — but it faces considerable obstacles in doing so. Among them: Lengthy security clearance reviews, flat budgets under the extended continuing resolution, th...