Special Report: DHS' Double Duty
DHS technology struggles to balance security with services.
Justice, FBI to spur information sharing
The department and the bureau plan to accelerate their efforts to consolidate systems and improve sharing of information needed for criminal investigations and prosecutions by launching major IT projects.
Port Authority turns to BearingPoint for security work
The Port of Authority of New York and New Jersey has awarded a contract to BearingPoint Inc. to improve security procedures for cargo containers entering the country.
IG report calls DHS IT security inadequate
An audit has revealed significant access control vulnerabilities with internal IT devices inside firewalls that may allow some personnel unauthorized access.
N.Y. transit agency taps Lockheed for infrastructure security project
Lockheed Martin will design, develop and deploy a critical infrastructure protection system that integrates command, communications and control capabilities across New York MTA facilities.
Louisville chooses Intergraph for incident response system support
Intergraph will provide a multijurisdictional, computer-aided dispatch system, mobile computing, and reporting and analysis software for the MetroSafe program.
DHS contracts for fingerprint scanners from Identix
The Homeland Security Department will deploy the devices at Immigration and Customs Enforcement sites to assist in the electronic scanning of fingerprints and to facilitate simultaneous verification from both DHS and FBI databases.
DHS looks at bigger picture for infrastructure protection R&D
The National Plan for Research and Development in Support of Critical Infrastructure Protection recognizes that many different sectors are vulnerable to the same threats and that interconnections between sectors must be addressed.
Cisco and ISS' secrecy ploy is all too revealing
Internet Security Systems Inc. researcher Michael Lynn disappointed his Black Hat Briefings audience in Las Vegas last month by announcing that instead of his expected talk on a vulnerability in Cisco routers, he would be discussing a flaw in voice over IP.
GCN Insider: Packet identification; More reason to telework; Exchange quickie
Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT.
NSA connects with General Dynamics for secure phone-PDA contract
General Dynamics Corp. won a contract from the National Security Agency to design and develop a secure mobile phone-personal digital assistant.
Report urges more spending on transit security
Mass transit systems can better guard against terrorism by deploying more closed-circuit video and television surveillance systems at stations and within tunnels and fixed facilities, according to a new report from the Washington-based Center for American Progress.
IT infrastructures could be battlefields of future wars
A professor from Auburn University has made the case that the United States may face a war in the future in which not a single shot is fired, but yet America loses.
Air Force teams with MTC in battle against weapons proliferation
The company will provide support services to the Air Force Technical Applications Center.
NIST to evaluate iris recognition technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology bills its Iris Challenge Evaluation as the 'first large-scale, open, independent evaluation' of the technology.
USDA takes E-Authentication to a new level
The Agriculture Department is one of a handful of agencies that don't have to worry about meeting the administration's goal of using e-authentication services for at least one of its applications.
Is it live, or is it ... latex?
In the 2004 film 'National Treasure,' the character played by Nicholas Cage surreptitiously steals a wineglass that had been used by the curator of the National Archives and in a matter of minutes creates a replica of her fingerprint. He uses the image to get past security measures protecting the Declaration of Independence and steals the document in order to look for a treasure map on the back.
DHS to foreign visitors: Give me 10
Homeland Security Department secretary Michael Chertoff's new requirement that all first-time visitors to the United States provide 10 fingerprints'rather than the current two required from most'is getting high marks from security experts for its ability to provide more meticulous identification and improved security.
DHS lays groundwork for border RFID acquisition
The Homeland Security Department's flagship U.S. Visit program may seek proposals in mid-2006 for a full-scale radio-frequency identification project at ports of entry.
California city contracts with Imageware for ID system
Imageware of San Diego will integrate its IWS Law Enforcement solution with an automated fingerprint identification system for the Fresno Sheriff's Department.
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