New WiFi security adds strong encryption
Products from six companies were certified following six months of interoperability testing.
E-mail sender authentication: It works but doesn't stop spam
A growing number of companies are using e-mail authentication protocols to help verify the Internet domain in an e-mail sender's address, but that is not keeping spam out of mailboxes, according to a new report.
Records agency automates its FISMA process
The government's move toward electronic documents is producing unexpected benefits for the nation's chief record-keeper.
OMB lays out R&D priorities for IT in 2006
The Bush administration has placed supercomputing and cyberinfrastructure among its highest priorities for agency R&D efforts in fiscal 2006.
OMB asks agencies for cybersecurity check-up
Agencies have until Oct. 6 to report on how they have improved their cybersecurity over the past year.
Microsoft links with Net2 backbone for SP2 delivery
Microsoft Corp. establishes a 2.5Gbps link from its Windows Update site to the high performance Internet2 Abilene backbone.
Secret Service and CERT analyze insider threats
New report urges organizations to 'look beyond their IT and security to their overall business processes' to secure their systems.
TSA expands airport access control pilot
The Transportation Security Administration is adding two airports to its Access Control Pilot Program, which is evaluating access-control technologies.
Managers face familiar hurdles: security and funding
What do government IT managers worry about the most? 'Our biggest challenge is security,' said an IT manager at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, reflecting the opinion of nearly half the respondents in a GCN telephone survey.
Draft security guidelines released
NIST publications offer guidelines on security configuration and forensics.
Ready or not, here comes secure Windows XP
Systems administrators and IT security vendors are bracing for what Microsoft Corp. has called the most significant security upgrade ever to a Windows operating system.
Vulnerable PC will be attacked in 20 minutes
The average survival time for an unprotected networked computer dropped from 40 minutes to 20 minutes over the last year, according to the SANS Institute of Bethesda, Md.
Ag now offers PKI services to other agencies
The Agriculture Department's National Finance Center has obtained official designation as a certified provider of public-key infrastructure services for the federal government by the Federal Identity Credentialing Committee and Shared Service Provider Subcommittee.
Cyber Eye: Take a tip on unobtrusive security
As I checked out of the hotel after a security conference last month in Las Vegas, the clerk noted my address and remarked what a nice city Washington is.
@Info.Policy: Is your sensitive data secure enough?
How many different categories of sensitive government information can you name?Let's begin with information classified by executive order for national defense or foreign policy purposes. Information about atomic weapons is a different kettle of fish, restricted by statute.
CBP works to secure a virtual fence
The Customs and Border Protection agency has plenty of work to do as it constructs the virtual fence needed to help protect the country from terrorists.
Online extra: State OKs biometrics passports
The State Department plans by December to choose a vendor to provide millions of passport covers bearing biometric chips with digital images of the holder.
Unprotected PCs can expect infection in minutes
The average survival time for an unprotected networked computer is about 20 minutes, the SANS Institute says.
HHS awards SRA $18.5 million PKI contract
The Health and Human Services Department has awarded SRA International Inc. a contract for HHS' enterprise public-key infrastructure program.
Auditors rip Los Alamos over lax PC controls
The Energy Department's inspector general has criticized Los Alamos National Laboratory for weak internal controls over notebook computers.
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