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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Greg Schaffer is leaving as the Homeland Security Department\'s assistant secretary in the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications.
The Homeland Security Department is hiring a new director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team, or U.S. CERT.
ClearanceJobs.com managing director Evan Lesser will talk about how the government job market is changing. March 2, 2012(Encore presentation March 16, 2012)
Bob Dix, vice president for government affairs and critical infrastructure for Juniper Networks, joined The Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about the new cyber bill introduced by Senate Republicans.
The Defense Information Systems Agency shut down Internet access and BlackBerry service for Pentagon employees Thursday morning.
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