Cybersecurity

  • Adm. Robert Day, the service\'s CIO, said he wants to consolidate data centers, recompete their HR system and better utilize smartphone and tablet devices. The Coast Guard also will begin deploying long-awaited C4 capabilities in 2012. March 8, 2012

    March 08, 2012
  • Marianne Swanson, a senior adviser for information security at NIST, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss NIST\'s final framework for Smart Grid security.

    March 08, 2012
  • Testifying before a House subcommittee, FBI Director Robert Mueller said terrorists have not used the Internet to launch a full-scale cyber attack, but the bureau does not underestimate an enemy\'s desire to do so.

    March 08, 2012
  • The FBI has identified and charged several key members of the hacker collective Anonymous and at least one member of the loose-knit group has turned FBI informant. Alan Paller, the director of research at the SANS Institute joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the recent cybersecurity developments.

    March 07, 2012
  • An interagency group of senior officials will brief Senate lawmakers today on what would be the response if the nation\'s critical infrastructure suffered a cyber attack. The meetings come as Senate lawmakers debate two cyber bills that try to address critical infrastructure protection.

    March 07, 2012
  • GSA may have to give as many as 20 agencies an extra nine months to transition to the five-year-old telecommunications contract. The agency says 96 percent of all transitions are done or in progress. GSA is developing a strategy for the next generation of telecommunications services.

    March 07, 2012
  • Several of the biggest challenges in government revolve around cybersecurity. As the administration and lawmakers on Capitol Hill move toward potential solutions, executing those solutions will fall to agencies\' cyber teams. Bob Monahan, the director of Management Information Systems for DRC joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss how agencies are dealing with the moving parts of cybersecurity.

    March 06, 2012
  • Jim Lewis, the director and senior fellow of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss competing cyber proposals.

    March 06, 2012
  • Dave McClure, the associate administrator in the OCSIT, and Kathy Conrad, the principal deputy associate administrator joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the work the office does and the progress on cloud-computing security standards in particular.

    March 06, 2012
  • Former Ambassador David Smith, now with the Potomac Institute Cyber Center, told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin there are positive elements to both cybersecurity bills currently introduced in the Senate.

    March 06, 2012
  • The National Security Agency\'s Central Security Service cut the ribbon on a new cyber facility in Georgia. The Georgia Cryptologic Center cost $286 million.

    March 06, 2012
  • There\'s plenty of talk about the role of the United States in cyber space. But what\'s lacking, one expert argues, is a defining doctrine. Ronald Marks, a senior fellow at George Washington University\'s Homeland Security Policy Institute, joined In Depth with Francis Rose, to discuss his idea for a comprehensive cyber doctrine.

    March 05, 2012
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a major revision to the Federal Information Security Management Act, which governs agency information security policies. Ron Ross, a NIST fellow and the agency\'s FISMA implementation project leader, joined In Depth with Francis Ross to discuss the FISMA additions.

    March 05, 2012
  • Greg Schaffer is leaving as the Homeland Security Department\'s assistant secretary in the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications.

    March 05, 2012