Agencies debate how much data is needed on HSPD-12 cards
Agencies are banding together to try to get the White House not to include the electronic National Agency Check indicator on the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 identification smart card.
Tech brief: Sigaba gets Common Criteria
Sigaba Inc. of Reston, Va., last month said its SigabaNet Authentication Server and Key Management Server products had received Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2 certification from the National Information Assurance Partnership. SigabaNet solutions are used for secure messaging, including e-mail and instant messaging.
GCN Insider | HSPD-12 with a single-sign-on twist
Single sign-on is one of those security technologies that makes perfect sense but always seems to play second fiddle to more pressing concerns.
TSA to roll out Registered Traveler sites
The Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration has announced that it plans to begin rolling out its Registered Traveler program at 10 to 20 airports in the second half of this year.
DHS revises TWIC solicitation
The Homeland Security Department has restructured a pending contract for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential by limiting the scope of the initial implementation contract to just the enrollment of eligible workers.
Richard P. Tracy | A CISO's full plate in 2006
This year promises to deliver a full plate of significant IT challenges for federal chief information security officers, who will be looking to create efficiencies within their organizations to free money and manpower that can be spent on new and emerging requirements.
Software insecurity: Plenty of blame to go around
The reason software so often is not secure is the fault either of developers or of users'or both.
RFP checklist: Security information management
Looking to deploy a security information management solution? Before sending out an RFP or RFI, experts say you should consider the following.
PKI is hard, but doesn't have to be this hard
A pair of experts at the 2006 International Conference on Network Security agreed that, with PKI, the perfect often is the enemy of the good.
Wiretaps vulnerable to phreaking
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found that it is not at all difficult for bad guys to outwit law enforcement wiretaps on their phone lines.
GCN Insider | Cross Match does 10 prints in a hurry
It's not every day you set a record. Jim Ziglar, CEO of Cross Match Technologies, said GCN might have set one. And Jim's a former Senate Sergeant at Arms and Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, so we trust him. In an impressive prerelease demonstration, we used Cross Match's new LSCAN Guardian scanner to capture 10 digital fingerprints in only eight seconds.
DHS still gearing up response to cyberthreats
The nation faces a real threat to its critical infrastructure while the Homeland Security Department still struggles to develop the systems needed to assess and respond to those risks, the department's head of cybersecurity said today.
Cross-Agency Exercise Proves HSPD-12 Model
The Defense and Homeland Security departments, along with first responders from Maryland and Virginia, recently showed just how important trust is under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
State begins work on PASS cards
The State Department is planning a procurement to begin the process of issuing millions of PASS cards, which U.S. citizens crossing the border will be able to use in lieu of passports.
RFID in the cards at the border?
The recent extension of radio frequency identification testing at border crossings would seem to boost the prospects for getting widespread systems in place. But the Homeland Security Department still faces significant hurdles in integrating, particularly for border crossing, RFID applications and standards, government officials and IT experts said.
SIM city and the network
Bill Geimer, program manager in the Chief Information Security Office at the Agency for International Development, has a huge security problem.
Scrub Your Data, not Your Career
Tools such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel are wonderful ways to express information. But until the fruits of their labor are made public, users treat them like personal workspaces, which can lead to problems when data that wasn't intended for public consumption leaks out. <b><font color="CC0000">|GCN Lab</font color> Reviewer's Choice|</b>
DHS Bug Hunt Returns Mixed Reaction
The results of a Homeland Security Department-funded bug hunt spanning 40 popular open-source programs has thus far met ambivalence from the open-source community. While many projects are using the results to improve their software, others are bemoaning the high number of false positives.
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