Gilmore Commission raps cybersecurity policy
The Gilmore Commission has strongly criticized the administration's cybersecurity policy and called for a merger of cyber- and physical security policy work in the White House. <br>
Upson: Y2K was just a warmup exercise
Former Virginia CIO Don Upson says the job of securing government systems 'dwarfs Y2K.' <br>
Guard and TSA plan IT pilots at several ports
The Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration continue to fine-tune efforts to track people and goods entering the nation's ports.
Hill flunks govt. on IT security
The government made little improvement in computer security in the third annual report card, issued at a House hearing last month by Rep. Steve Horn.
Managed security services are coming, Symantec CEO says
Symantec Corp.'s CEO says outsourced managed security service contracts are the wave of the future for government networks, but the market is nascent.<br>
Multinational war games will test analysis tool
The U.S. Joint Forces Command will use a new software analysis tool that displays relationships between key facts buried in separate files.<br>
DARPA's plans for data mining draw criticism
The Defense Department is developing a massive database to monitor consumer purchases and government transactions as part of its effort to track terrorists and their activities.
Vendors battle over airing software flaws
Two software companies are going to court over security flaws one company found in a desktop administration tool produced by the other. The case could set limits on third-party revelations of security holes in copyrighted software.
Cross-certification still needs a personnel touch
Human involvement is still essential to the Federal Bridge Certification Authority's cross-certification efforts, said Tim Polk, the public-key infrastructure program manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Sharing certificates requires common directories plus attention to details
Four agencies have traveled a long, bumpy road to exchange digital certificates.
3Com produces hardware firewall for notebook PCs
3Com Corp. has released its first hardware firewall on a PC Card for notebook PCs.
Cybercontrol demands intelligence
Brian Kelly is in the alarm business. The retired Air Force lieutenant colonel joined iDefense Inc. of Chantilly, Va., as president and chief operating officer early last year, in the midst of a spurt of Internet mischief involving the notorious Code Red and Nimda worms.
Police can't access terrorist watch lists
Local and state police 'operate in a virtual intelligence vacuum' without access to State Department terrorist watch lists, according to a report last month from the Council on Foreign Relations Inc. of New York.
Guard and TSA plan IT pilots at U.S. ports
The Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration continue to fine-tune efforts to track people and goods entering the nation's ports.<br>
CA: Security monitoring swamps data centers
Firewalls, filters and intrusion detection systems have proliferated so much that data center managers are inundated by terabytes of security reports, Computer Associates International Inc.'s Ron Moritz said today. <br>
Feds raid government software contractor
Federal agents raided the office of Ptech Inc. of Quincy, Mass., early this morning as part of a terrorism investigation, sources said. Ptech supplies modeling software to federal agencies via the General Services Administration's schedule contracts. <br>
Microsoft: Truly trustworthy computing still years away
Nearly a year after Microsoft Corp. held a companywide stand-down to address security and reliability problems in Windows, its chief technology officer today predicted it would take until the end of the decade for the company's trustworthy computing initiative to bear fruit. <br>
Wireless LAN vendors attack security issues
When the Pentagon'no small potential customer'cracked down recently on the installation of wireless LANs, the industry sat up and took notice.
Georgia considers bar code biometrics for driver's licenses
Georgia next year could be among the first states to begin attaching facial biometric data to its driver's licenses and nondriver ID cards.<br>
Cyberstrategy will get 'substantive reworking'
The President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board has received several hundred responses to its draft strategy for defending cyberspace, released in September for 60 days' public comment. <br>
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