Senators question GSA on response to eOffer security problem
The Senate Government Affairs Committee is questioning the General Services Administration's slow action in taking down its eOffer system after a vendor discovered a security flaw.
In QDR, Defense focuses on combating cyberthreats
The newly released Quadrennial Defense Review suggests an evolution in Pentagon thinking about the role of IT in countering cyberthreats.
NIST issues guidelines for data removal
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a set of recommendations for safely removing information from obsolete forms of storage.
Packet Rat: Dirty laundry list
With a fresh message from Osama bin Laden in hand, a lobbying scandal on the Hill, and outrage brewing over National Security Agency monitoring of domestic phone calls, the Justice Department has once again ratcheted up its war efforts'against porn.
QDR stresses Defense nets, IT security
Quadrennial report draws on lessons from war on terror to push technology to troops
NIST finalizes biometric specification for HSPD-12
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued the final biometric specifications for Federal Information Processing Standard-201.
Biometrics look ready for prime time
Technologies improve just in time for HSPD-12 rollouts
Dispatches from Redmond
At a conference for public-sector CIOs in Redmond, Wash., last month, Kristin Johnsen, Microsoft's senior director for security outreach, briefed editors on a slew of promising technologies for protecting systems and networks. Here's a sampling, in no particular order.
Disk encryption and HSPD-12
This is probably just one GCN editor's interpretation, but Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO of WinMagic Data Security in Mississauga, Ontario, sounds a bit like the Rodney Dangerfield of security technology.
Buy a firewall, get the router free
'We want more presence in the branch router market,' said Juniper Networks Inc. senior director of enterprise products Chris Spain during a recent visit to Washington. Hence the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company's new Juniper Secure Services Gateway 500 family of security appliances, which debuts this week.
Charles McClam | The changing ways of SBA
Acting CIO Charles McClam details steps SBA is taking to improve its IT security and the wholesale changes that are coming to its Loan Accounting System.
Intelligence agencies eye the watch list dilemma
Officials want to add biometrics and better search capabilities, but doubts persist about feasibility'and even possibility
Major DHS cybersecurity exercise to take place in February
The Homeland Security Department will test how well it works with other federal agencies and private IT companies to protect cybersecurity in a national exercise Feb. 6-10.
DHS taking second look at iris scans for Registered Traveler
The Homeland Security Department will soon decide whether to re-establish iris scans in the Registered Traveler program, a measure it had dropped from the program's nationwide rollout, a department official said last week.
State needs help to certify its contractor IT systems
At the same time, the State Department also is likely to offer its services for agencies with overseas offices as they face upcoming Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 requirements.
DHS network security tools need refining: IG
The Homeland Security Department's automated network security tools need to be fine-tuned to deliver more accurate data, according to the agency's inspector general.
Information warfare: The need to know your enemy
A pair of IT security experts say the United States must be able to identify cyberattackers more clearly to mount an effective defense.
NIST preapproves first PIV-II smart card
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued the first preapproval for a smart card that meets Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, Federal Information Processing Standard 201.
Better hacking through science: new and better ways to hide your rootkit
In the cat-and-mouse game of computer security, rootkits are a powerful way to hide malicious code on a compromised computer where it is difficult to detect and remove.
DHS cybersecurity budget grows to fight computer crime
The budget for the Homeland Security Department's National Cyber Security Division is expected to grow by $25 million in fiscal 2007'a significant increase, given that the division's budget for this year is about $79 million.
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