DOD tests biometrics to secure its smart cards
The Defense Department's Biometrics Fusion Center soon will begin testing software on four types of biometric devices for use on its Common Access smart cards.
DMS passes final test for all but intelligence users
The latest release of Defense Message System software has passed operational testing and evaluation for the Defense Department's general service areas. But testers found the 3.0 release unsuitable for intelligence work'the area for which its security features were designed.
E-Authentication pilot set for fall'no IT plan yet
The General Services Administration's E-Authentication Joint Program Management Office is preparing to fire up a pilot Sept. 30, but it doesn't yet know exactly how the system is going to work.
PTO: No one should trust our systems
If disaster struck the Patent and Trademark Office's data center today, the agency would be without access to its records for nearly four years and would have to spend $550 million to regenerate them from tape backups.
E-authentication team takes inventory
As early as next week, the General Services Administration's Office of Electronic Government will release a draft of its E-Authentication Inventory Template, a table that will list every federal agency's progress toward building a security architecture.
VA locks onto a series of security efforts
Just over a year ago, Bruce Brody took over as the associate deputy assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the Veterans Affairs Department, a newly created position and the first of its kind in the federal government.
Defense wants more details on 600 antiterrorism ideas
The Defense Department has completed its evaluation of thousands of responses from industry, submitted in the months after Sept. 11, to develop technologies to combat terrorism.
NSA certifies vendors for vulnerability and security assessments
The National Security Agency has certified seven companies to help agencies evaluate their information security.
One key to security: Think like a hacker, expert says
The director of the Army's Information Operations Assurance Office wants security officials to work smarter, just as IT criminals are doing.
Cyber Eye: New INS system must vault high bars
The nation's gatekeepers have just been handed a big job: sharing information about foreign visitors across disparate and incompatible government databases.
Police network walls off attacks
In the past three months, the Santa Barbara, Calif., Police Department saw a dramatic increase in the number of Internet attacks, said David Straede, systems analyst for the department.
TSA will hand out $92.3 million for port security
The Transportation Department is giving $92.3 million in grants to 51 ports nationwide to boost their security. About $78 million of the grants will go to secure facilities and $5 million to evaluate vulnerabilities, department officials said.
Patent Office calls itself 'not credible'
The Patent and Trademark Office is vulnerable to widespread systems disasters, said the office's own 21st Century Strategic plan. The June 3 document said, 'Neither external nor external customers can trust the USPTO's automated systems' and that grave flaws in its information security and disaster recovery operations have rendered the office 'not credible' to internal and external users.
FedCIRC will work with university's CERT
The Federal Computer Incident Response Center is putting together a pilot to stop hacker attacks on agency Web sites. FedCIRC, a General Services Administration unit that is to be part of the proposed Homeland Security Department, is joining with Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Center to collect and analyze data from sensors in agency firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
Cybersecurity plans will be part of Homeland Security Department
The administration plans to release its strategy for securing the nation's critical infrastructure in late summer, at the same time the proposed Homeland Security Department is expected to be organized.
DOD is on track to add biometrics to Common Access Card
The Defense Department is pursuing an aggressive timetable for incorporating biometric identifiers in its Common Access smart card.
FHWA awards a tech services pact
The Federal Highway Administration has awarded a 10-year, $175 million contract to Indus Corp. to secure the agency's databases.
House puts terrorism information sharing bill on fast track
The Bush administration and leaders of both parties in the House are working with the Judiciary Committee to rush through a bill, sponsored by <b>Rep. Saxby Chambliss</b> (R-Ga.) and Rep. Jane Harman, (D-Calif.) that would require the CIA, the FBI and other federal intelligence agencies to share information with state and local police.
DOD looks closer at promising technologies
Nearly eight months after it released a request to industry for help developing technologies to combat terrorism, the Defense Department will now take the next step.
Administration touts smart cards, but some agencies are skeptical
While the Office of Cyberspace Security prepares a governmentwide security plan for release this summer, Paul Kurtz, its senior director for national security, is urging agencies to think seriously about using smart cards to protect their systems against a terrorist attack.
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