Air Force readies an integrated war office
The Air Force on Monday will inaugurate a new office for warfighting integration and has appointed a base commander in Massachusetts as the office's deputy chief of staff.
Army hires Stat Scanner
The Army this week awarded Harris Corp. a multimillion-dollar contract to protect its global networks from cyberthreats. The Melbourne, Fla., company will install its Stat Scanner vulnerability assessment software on more than 1.5 million Army systems and will provide maintenance for three years.
CACI wins $31.5 million Customs award
The Customs Service has awarded a five-year, $31.5 million contract to CACI International Inc. of Arlington, Va., to help secure information systems throughout the agency.
Ross: Systems complexity threatens security
At today's National Institute of Standards and Technology conference on continuity of IT operations, Ron S. Ross, director of the National Information Assurance Partnership, said the growing complexity of IT systems 'has outstripped our ability to protect them. Complexity is the No. 1 enemy of security,' Ross said.
Army security expert emphasizes vigilance and training
A computer scientist from the National Infrastructure Protection Center yesterday urged agency officials to return to the basics of security and guard against cyberattacks by IT insiders.
CVE dictionary contains more than 2,000 entries
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures lexicon, developed by Mitre Corp. of Bedford, Mass., to bring order to IT security, has grown to include more than 2,000 entries.
Mobility and security share focus at FOSE
Since Sept. 11, agency network administrators are more willing to support users' mobile devices. And users are finding new ways to connect, in effect constructing a new, mobile e-government platform on the fly.
INS speeds makeover of visa systems
After the Immigration and Naturalization Service last month sent M-1 student visa forms for terrorists Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi to the Florida flight school where they prepared for the Sept. 11 attacks, howls for investigation and reform echoed anew from the Oval Office and Congress.
Clarke: IT security is 3 to 5 years away
The president's proposed fiscal 2003 budget puts much-needed money behind efforts to improve IT security, presidential cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke told industry representatives at FOSE 2002.
Agencies don't buy biometrics yet
Although biometric products are hot in the marketplace, agencies are waiting for them to mature, said Judith Spencer, who chairs the General Services Administration's Public-key Infrastructure Steering Committee.
GSA sets up security alert, patch service
The General Services Administration has awarded a $1.5 million task order for a custom Web service that will alert systems administrators to new security weaknesses and patches.
Nature of the beast
The Government Information Security Reform Act of 2000 requires agencies to assess the security of classified and nonclassified systems and to include risk assessment and security needs with each agency budget request.
Agencies batten down the access hatches
After the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, most government agencies beefed up IT systems security, a GCN telephone survey found.
Gilmore warns of threat to information systems
If terrorists strike the United States again, their targets could be information systems or critical systems infrastructures, former Virginia governor James Gilmore said yesterday.
What say you? In-Q-Tel wants to know about it
The CIA's venture capital arm has teamed up with a search-engine company to develop a multilanguage system for intelligence gathering.
White House: Take sensitive data offline
Federal agencies are re-examining their Web sites for information deemed sensitive after a March 20 presidential memo told them to scrub anything that might be useful to terrorists.
Transportation mulls smart cards for security
The Transportation Security Administration is accepting proposals for a smart-card system to authenticate transportation workers such as pilots and flight attendants, an expert said today at FOSE 2002 in Washington.
Clarke: President's IT budget puts money behind policy
Presidential cybersecurity adviser <b>Richard Clarke</b>, speaking to industry representatives at the FOSE trade show in Washington today, said 8 percent of the $52 billion proposed fiscal 2003 IT budget is earmarked for security.
GOP High-Tech Task Force lists security, information sharing among top priorities
Internet security and combating terrorism through information sharing among companies and agencies are among the top priorities for the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force. The group, made up of 10 senators and chaired by Virginia's George Allen, last week released its 2002 policy agenda and outlined the issues it will focus on during the second session of the 107th Congress.
Federal security directors sworn in
The first group of Transportation Security Administration federal security directors, who will oversee and enforce security at airports, was sworn in last week.
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