Based on new figures, the military expects to spend more than three times what DHS is requesting for cyber operations.
The agency will issue its first Call Letter of 2011 Friday detailing suggestions for insurance carriers to focus on wellness and healthy lifestyles. Director Berry also wants insurance providers to offer affinity benefits for domestic partners of federal employees. Later this year, OPM will launch a new medical claims database to improve the plans.
Sentrigo\'s flagship product, Hedgehog Enterprise, monitors databases for illegal or unauthorized activity.
So what are the cyber challenges facing the Naval Postgraduate School?
How bad is the hacking of RSA for the federal government? We ask CERIAS\'s Gene Spafford.
Gen. Keith Alexander has outlined a series of next steps to be pursued by the six-month-old U.S. Cyber Command.
The Google and University of Maryland Cybersecurity Seminar Series will feature a diverse group of speakers from industry, academia, and government, addressing a broad range of topics related to cybersecurity, including technology, policy, and economics. Invited speakers will also examine the impact that cybersecurity threats and protective measures are having on privacy, identity, social networks, business and national security.
The hack attack that breached tools provided by RSA has affected federal users, but the Homeland Security Department is advising agencies, they don\'t need to replace the product.
The Department of Defense is working with private developers to create a system that automatically detects and prevent network intrusions.
Cyber Command gave no reason for the turnabout in policy.
Agencies reported more than 41,000 cyber incidents in 2010.
Despite a 2006 mandate to secure mobile devices and implement two-factor authentication, only just over half of federal agencies have managed to do so. OMB submits its annual FISMA report to Congress detailing the steps the government has taken to improve cybersecurity, including spending $12 billion on cybersecurity last year.
The U.S. military does not have the trained personnel or the legal authorities it needs to respond to a computer-based attack on America or its allies, and a crisis would quickly strain the force, the Pentagon\'s cyber commander said Wednesday.
Cyber defense giant Symantec has been asked to join a White House advisory council.
Cadets are taking on the role of \"malicious insiders\" in a study of front-line cyber threats.