Batten down the hatches
At the Merchant Marine Academy, better access control protects a wide-ranging network of seafaring mobile users.
Tech brief | Elemental leaps through hoops
Elemental Security Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., last month said its Elemental Security Platform 2.0 had been certified by the Center for Internet Security for the IBM AIX and Sun Solaris 10 platforms.
Tech brief | Entrust gets PKI OK
The most recent product on the Path Discovery and Validation Working Group's qualified validation list is Entrust TruePass 8.1 from Entrust Inc.
Tech brief | TeamQuest meets FIPS
TeamQuest Corp. of Clear Lake, Iowa, has inserted an RSA Security FIPS-140-2 certified encryption module into its TeamQuest 9.3 software.
Shawn P. McCarthy | Internaut: FTC turns up the heat on spam
The hammer will be coming down a little harder on spammers in the next few months, thanks to renewed efforts by the Federal Trade Commission. FTC and its partners are focused mainly on commercial spam problems, but the program will also affect spam that makes its way to government mail servers.
Open Source stacks shake up government security certifications
Open-source stacks are poised to shake up the world of government security certifications, such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 and the National Information Assurance Partnership's Common Criteria ratings.
DLA critiqued for IT security failings
The Defense Department's inspector general has issued a report critical of the Defense Logistics Agency for shortcomings in implementing IT security controls.
Labor planning solicitation for PIV cards
The Labor Department will be issuing a solicitation in the next two weeks for a solution that will provide Personal Identity Verification identification cards to agency employees and contractors.
TSA does about-face on TWIC
The Transportation Security Administration has decided to conduct a 'full and open competition' for all aspects of the Transportation Worker Identity Card project after all.
GSA to secure federal sites under HSPD-12
The General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service will provide card readers that meet Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 requirements at the entrances to all federal buildings.
Merchant mariners may get two IDs
A proposed rule calls for merchant mariners to have the Transportation Workers Identification Credential as well as a new consolidated mariner form.
DHS awards contracts for call centers, software licensing
The Homeland Security Department has signed deals for call center support and to obtain cybersecurity tools for operating systems, servers and databases used by the federal government.
NIST issues draft guidance for IT security metrics
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the initial public draft of its Special Publication 800-80, titled Guide for Developing Performance Metrics for Information Security.
Industry appeals to Rumsfeld on clearance issue
Members of seven industry groups have sent a letter to the Pentagon urging Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld to reverse the Defense Security Services' decision to stop accepting industry applications for all security clearances.
Tech brief: Juniper, FIPS and VPNs
Juniper Networks Inc. recently rolled out a pair of FIPS-compliant, Secure Sockets Layer VPN appliances.
Tech brief: Ruggedized ... RFID tags?
Intermec Inc. of Everett, Wash., last week introduced a ruggedized, reusable radio frequency identification tag that can withstand extreme temperatures and chemical exposure, the company said.
GCN Insider | A stealth gadget
Mobile workers take note: There are more and more ways to protect yourself when you're forced to use an airport kiosk or a shared PC.
GCN Insider | Handwriting before fingerprints
At the FOSE trade show in March, a GCN editor asked a Gateway Inc. product manager why the company had not yet introduced integrated fingerprint biometrics into its notebook PC line, as seemingly everyone else had.
Info. assurance a matter of survival
According to the NSA's chief systems engineer, only those with the most assured information will survive in the Information Age.
RFID resonates
Big organizations jump on board as radio frequency ID technology matures
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