Melissa Hathaway's resignation as the Obama administration’s acting senior director for cyberspace has caused scrutiny about how the Obama administration is accomplishing its extensive cybersecurity agenda.
Melissa Hathaway, who led the administration's 60-day review of cyber policy and was considered a candidate for the new White House cyber coordinator position, will resign later this month, according to an article on The Wall Street Journal's Web site.
A House committee chairman who has jurisdiction over some government operations plans to introduce a bill designed to ban the use of peer-to-peer software on government and contractor networks.
Recent hacks of Twitter data and the misuse of the microblogging service for phishing and other malicious activities highlight the danger of adopting new technologies before they are business-ready.
Lockheed Martin Corp. will refine a secure information-sharing system for the Defense Department under a Navy contract with a potential value of $74 million over five years.
Apptis will provide overall management, engineering, integration and acquisition support for the Army's Command Center Upgrades Special Projects Office.
Agency responses to cyberattacks on U.S. government sites demonstrates a need for better coordination between agency security officials and the companies that provide Internet services, experts say.
ManTech International Corp. has established ManTech Cyber Solutions International Inc., which will build new tools and develop tactics that meet customer needs in the cyber field.
The attacks, which spiked late July 6 and early July 7, are not particularly sophisticated and can be mitigated by organizations that are prepared for them, experts say.
A Symantec survey reveals the "rising [disaster recovery] pressures on organizations caused by soaring downtime costs and more stringent IT service-level requirements to mitigate risk to the business."
Washington Technology received a number of trenchant comments about staff writer Alice Lipowicz's July 1 Web story “DHS requires more personal information from employees, contractors.”
