Amit Yoran brought to his former job as director of the Homeland Security Department's cybersecurity division the perspective of an engineer and entrepreneur. "Maybe that's not the right fit for the job," he said.
The National Security Agency is looking for analysis software to help it sort through the immense amount of data it collects, because commercial intelligence software just isn't powerful enough to do the job.
IBM's Global Business Security Index, based on data from a half-million monitored devices, counted 997 Internet attacks in September, 27 percent more than in July and August.
The recent discussion about electronic voting ["Undecided on E-Voting," Oct. 11] focused mostly on voter-verified paper audit trails. But these audit trails don't prove that a vote was counted properly, and in the end, isn't that all that matters?
Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. will make their security architectures interoperable to keep out viruses, worms and other network threats, the two companies have announced.
Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. today announced they will make their security architectures interoperable to keep out viruses, worms and other network threats.
Although election officials agree that e-voting security measures need strengthening, no clear consensus has emerged over how it should be done, analysts and government officials said.
A hot issue ? public-private competitions for federal work ? for federal contractors and for politicians on both sides of the aisle isn't going to get less controversial. But its direction could change dramatically.
Federal, state and local governments often have discrete GIS groups working on task-specific GIS initiatives. But as geospatial data becomes increasingly important to all types of agencies, integrators are called on to marry disparate GIS projects and build applications that take advantage of unified geospatial information.
Two research centers that will apply life sciences techniques to Internet security are among 33 new projects the National Science Foundation will fund in its latest round of grants in the Cyber Trust Program.
Two research centers that will apply the techniques of life sciences to Internet security are among 33 new projects the National Science Foundation will fund in its latest round of grants under the Cyber Trust Program.
An amendment that would require agencies to include cybersecurity in the planning and acquisition phases of systems development may soon become law, according to Bob Dix, staff director of the House Government Reform subcommittee on technology, information policy and the census.
During a Baltimore conference last summer of 1,000 Homeland Security Department workers, Robert West, the agency's chief information security officer, made the rounds at an after-hours social event.
Despite a number of discontinued pilot programs, smart-card use in government is growing, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.
