CDC outlines IT needs for emergency vaccination clinics
The government is offering to help state and local governments design IT components of smallpox vaccination clinics in the event of an outbreak of the disease.
Clarke unveils security strategy
There were no surprises in last week's release of the government's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, which emphasizes awareness, best practices and commonsense precautions.
NIST and NSA scurry to draft new security guide for IT
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is working on governmentwide guidelines for security certification and accreditation of federal IT systems.
Four agencies achieve interoperable PKI
After five years of work, the General Services Administration's Federal Bridge Certification Authority has made the public-key infrastructures of four agencies interoperable. For the first time in history, federal agencies will accept each other's digital certificates through the bridge.
Another View: Don't let cybersecurity bug you
Cybersecurity sometimes seems like a hopelessly complex subject, with a diverse and colorfully named range of threats. Recent viruses on the most-active lists include Klez.I, Grade A, and Dadinu, plus the reliable Nimda and Code Red worms.
Army is nearly ready to unify its network operations
The Army is only weeks away from bringing together all its network operations under a single command, the service's CIO, Lt. Gen. Peter Cuviello, said today at the Homeland Security and National Defense Symposium in Atlantic City, N.J.
Defense data expert: Follow amazon.com's data sharing lead
Sharing information effectively requires more than interoperable systems; it requires gleaning knowledge from the data, Marine Brig. Gen. Mike Ennis said.
NSA cryptologist to feds: Use the security that's there
NSA no longer stands for No Such Agency. National Security Agency agents came at least partway out of the closet to ask help from hackers at the recent Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas.
Louisiana spices up security with fingertip log-ons
The Louisiana Public Safety Department has tightened its network log-in security by installing 1,100 fingerprint readers and software from Identix Inc. of Minnetonka, Minn.
Commercial sector shares threat information
The Information Sharing and Analysis Centers, established in key commercial sectors to help protect the nation's critical infrastructure, have evolved over the last year, developing a structure to share threat information among ISACs.
U.S.-Canadian projects to shore up border are under way
The Customs Service and the Canadian Customs and Revenue Agency have begun a pilot of an intelligent transportation system that uses Global Positioning System data to monitor ships in the St. Lawrence Seaway.
HOW WE'VE CHANGED/TECHNOLOGY: IT takes the point on security
An unintended but positive effect of Sept. 11 has been a higher priority for IT budget proposals, said <b>Linda Massaro</b>, former CIO at the National Science Foundation. The general responsiveness to requests for improving technology seems to have changed. There is a much more positive view that we aren't just the systems geeks in the basement,' Massaro said.
Security gurus: Cooperation is paramount
'Computer security is getting worse faster than it can ever be fixed,' Jeff Moss said at the recent Sector5 cybersecurity conference in Washington.
Marines, FEMA launch emergency data service
The Marine Corps Systems Command and Federal Emergency Management Agency this month will deploy a toolkit for sharing emergency information.
DOD and FEMA plan bioattack warning system
The Defense Department last month announced it will develop early-warning medical surveillance systems in Washington and Albuquerque, N.M.
As 9-11 nears, INS set to test new entry app
The Immigration and Naturalization Service will commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by launching a new fingerprint identification system it hopes will help prevent more attacks.
VA's CIO takes over bureaus' systems
With expanded authority over the systems domain of the Veterans Affairs Department, CIO John A. Gauss has identified two initial priorities: cybersecurity and IT investment oversight.
Police technician has a better way to keep track of the contraband
Kathy Rogers collects guns, drugs and wads of $100 bills. But Rogers, a property technician for the Clovis Police Department in Fresno County, Calif., had little idea of what was where in the evidence room until last year, when she bought a tracking system.
Turf wars hinder federal IT security
When Securify Inc. in June named Carl Wright vice president for federal operations, the Mountain View, Calif., company tapped 11 years of experience in the Marine Corps.
State lines
Local government online security appears to be a hit-or-miss proposition.
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