Cybersecurity
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The Defense Department recognized the National Defense University\'s iCollege for developing the online cyber defense workshop and for fostering global collaboration on cyber defense issues.
December 29, 2011 -
The hacker group Anonymous said that it took out a dozen Egyptian government websites this week in retaliation for the government\'s treatment of protestors.
December 28, 2011 -
The department signs an enterprise license agreement for messaging software for all civilian agency networks as part of the intrusion detection system. Congress gave DHS $443 million for cybersecurity in the 2012 budget.
December 27, 2011 -
Officer in charge of Pentagon\'s joint Cyber Command says he sees a track from exploitation to disruption to destruction.
December 23, 2011 -
RedSeal Networks interviewed more than 200 federal managers and found agencies are unsure how to define continuous monitoring. OMB is requiring departments to have continuous monitoring in place by Sept. 30. The survey found many agencies are trying to figure out the best way to implement these capabilities.
December 23, 2011 -
Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS institute. He joined
December 22, 2011 -
Federal News Radio\'s Jason Miller offers his top stories of 2011 and predictions for 2012.
December 22, 2011 -
The director of the National Cyber Security Division is going to work for Raytheon. Dean has been the director of NCSD for three years. She is the fourth senior DHS cyber official to announce they are leaving this year, Federal News Reports in this exclusive report.
December 22, 2011 -
Draft funding bill would give FBI the full cyber-investigation budget it asked for, about $166 million.
December 22, 2011 -
Mark Forman, the first e-gov administrator at the Office of Management and Budget, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the major cybersecurity challenges faced by federal IT officials in 2011 and what to look for in 2012.
December 21, 2011 -
Congress is putting the spy world on a diet by trimming back planned growth in staff and high-tech surveillance programs.
December 21, 2011 -
Chinese hackers were able to access information about the Chamber\'s operations and its 3 million members.
December 21, 2011 -
Under the cloud security requirements, vendors who want to be third party assessment organizations and cloud service providers must prove they have walled-off the two parts of their company. GSA released details Dec. 8 and held an industry day Dec. 16 for vendors who want to be third-party assessers. GSA expects to release the FedRAMP security controls early in 2012.
December 20, 2011 -
Defense minister describes country\'s websites as operating at a \"general threat\" level.
December 20, 2011 -
The International Informations Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc. — or (ISC)2 &mdashl; has awarded five scholarships as part of a cybersecurity challenge for high schoolers. The organization works with the U.S. Cyber Challenge, a national public-private coalition.
December 19, 2011