Maine develops ‘neighborhood watch’ approach to cyber

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Maine develops ‘neighborhood watch’ approach to cyber

Learn more in today\'s cybersecurity update.

Federal News Network Staff

August 18, 2010 4:45 pm

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Cybersecurity Update – Tune in weekdays at 30 minutes past the hour for the latest cybersecurity news on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris (6-10 a.m.) and the DorobekINSIDER with Chris Dorobek (3-7 p.m.). My Maine Privacy, and it won the award for Best Local and Community Plan in this year’s Cyber Challenge held by the Department of Homeland Security. Angelo Castigliola is an Information Security Systems Analyst who helped put it together, and tells the DorobekInsider more about it.

Accurately measuring the extent of cyber-risks, and then communicating that to managers, was again at the heart of this year’s Metricon event held by Securitymetrics.org. CSO reports the techniques they talked a lot about at the conference generally revolved around language. Andrew Jaquith, senior analyst with Forrester Research and host of this year’s event, said the risks are crystal clear. Referencing a “rolling snapshot” WhiteHat Security Founder and CTO Jeremiah Grossman conducted between January 2006 and August 2007, Jaquith noted that in that timeframe, seven out of 10 websites from the 128 million scanned had critical or urgent vulnerabilities. The issue at hand is how to put those vulnerabilities and the damage they can cause into the proper perspective for the CEO or board of directors.

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