The General Services Administration is combing the Federal Supply Service's IT schedule for smart-card vendors whose products and services meet a new federal standard.
Because Secure Sockets Layer encryption is built into Web browsers, its a low-cost way to protect Internet communications. It's also a convenient way to hide a network attack.
Titan Corp. recently launched a mobile enterprise security system that allows secure storage, transmission and access of information in a mobile environment, officials from the San Diego company said.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is drafting a letter to the General Services Administration and Bank of America asking what action the bank will take to ensure the safety of federal credit card-holders' personal data.
This spring, FBI's leadership will decide whether to scrap the much maligned Virtual Case File System or allow its contractor, Science Applications International Corp., to continue developing the system.
Several state and local jurisdictions have established intelligence centers to fuse terrorist threat information from multiple sources and different levels of government.
President Bush wants to increase IT spending at the Homeland Security Department by a whopping 25 percent in fiscal 2006 to $6.0 billion from $4.8 billion.
Polycom Inc. has released a set of video-aware networking and security solutions that solve firewall and network address translation problems for enterprises and service providers, company officials said.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network March 1 will launch a system that will let law enforcement and financial institutions transmit information about people they suspect of financing terrorist activities or laundering money.
The nation's top cybersecurity official does not have to have an office in the White House to be effective, said Jamie Gorelick, former Justice Department official and member of the 9-11 Commission.
Despite the Office of Management and Budget's emphasis on cybersecurity over the past four years, the federal government is barely secure ? and Congress is frustrated.
