Cybersecurity

• Cyber review heads to final deliberations

  CIO Council offers advice on improving agency input on IT security

  Technology

  April 21, 2009
• ‘Good Government’ Group Grades WH Cybersecurity

  As early as this Friday, President Obama is expected to receive a the results of a top-to-bottom review of the nation’s cybersecurity program. The president ordered the review 60 days ago and is expected to…

  Technology

  April 15, 2009
• Big risk-taking at small agencies

  Survey finds bigger cybersecurity lapses at smaller agencies.

  Technology

  April 13, 2009
• Cybersecurity: the Human Factor

  Employees may be one of the real risks to cybersecurity in your organization. A survey by Applied Research and Symantec shows that human error and deliberate sabotage cause large amounts of data to be lost…

  Federal Drive

  April 13, 2009
• NIST Guide Update

  The National Institutes of Standards and Technology is updating a nearly four-year-old publication that guides how agencies protect their computer networks. NIST is trying to help agencies battle the changing nature of the cyber threat…

  Technology

  April 10, 2009
• Could we be hacked back in time?

  Looking at real threats in an ether-based world

  Technology

  April 10, 2009
• Internal Revenue’s Internal Audit

  How secure are the 98,000 desktop and laptop computers at the Internal Revenue Service? Peggy Begg is the Assistant Inspector General for Security and Information Technology Audits with the Treasury Department. She joins us to…

  Federal Drive

  April 08, 2009
• Confickr Worm

  Once again, the world of networked computers held its collective breath last week. Would the Confickr worm morph on April Fool’s Day into real malware? It did not. Why not? Probably for a couple of…

  Technology

  April 02, 2009
• Cyber office in White House unlikely?

  Rep. Langevin says OMB may get increased staff instead

  Technology

  March 27, 2009
• CISCO On Cybersecurity

  Cybersecurity is constantly evolving. Each year, Cisco taps into some 400 cybersecurity officials across the organization to assess the state of cybersecurity, and they have a new report out on the subject. And there is…

  Technology

  March 23, 2009
• Is the Cloud Coming?

  Cloud computing is coming — and that it probably should — that’s the gist of a new report by Marketspace, Envisioning the Cloud: The next computing paradigm. Many agencies are looking at cloud computing, including…

  Technology

  March 20, 2009
• File Sharing

  File sharing software. It’s great for trading music and pictures. That’s why millions of people use it. Trouble is, file sharing leaves your entire hard drive open for sharing if someone types in the right…

  Technology

  March 19, 2009
• The Marine One Breach

  We’re learning more about how sensitive diagrams of Marine One got into the hands of a computer user in Iran. CNN Washington Correspondent Brian Todd tells us that the defense subcontractor actually took the information…

  Technology

  March 04, 2009
• More Money for Cybersecurity

  $355 million. That’s how much President Barack Obama wants for the Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity budget in 2010. GCN reports that the money would support the department’s role in the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, among…

  Budget

  March 03, 2009