Expert suggests holistic approach to security
IT security professionals have to find a way to move from reacting to threats to proactive protection, according to one security expert.
Spyware infections spreading, security expert says
Spyware programs are increasing in number and growing in sophistication to avoid detection, making it harder to guard against infections and more costly to repair their damage.
Fed plan for cybersecurity R&D released
The government has outlined its first steps for coordinating and expanding federal research and development efforts aimed at improving cybersecurity.
Commerce sets up IT security education program
The first step toward better information security in the government is to provide more training for the people responsible for keeping systems safe. That's the approach being taken by Nancy DeFrancesco, chief information security officer for the Commerce Department.
Commerce signs up for security training
The Commerce Department has awarded a task order to the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)2, to provide an expanded information security education program for the department's information security employees.
Too much for NSA to mine?
The commotion over allegations that the National Security Agency has been secretly compiling data on millions of telephone calls made by ordinary citizens raises an interesting question: With the technologies in place today, how well can NSA actually mine the information it gathers?
State Dept. to remove Chinese-made computers from classified networks
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice and Commerce, and Related Agencies, announced today that the State Department has agreed that approximately 900 computers purchased from Lenovo Corp. will not be used on classified networks.
Energy contract stirs conflict
Problems with large government IT contracts grab headlines every day, but small awards can be just as much trouble. Just ask the Energy Department. A recent award, to a software supplier whose offer was priced substantially higher than two competitors and rated lower on technical merits, is one example.
DLA critiqued for IT security failings
The Defense Department's inspector general has issued a report critical of the Defense Logistics Agency for shortcomings in implementing IT security controls.
Dunnington to leave NASA
Patricia Dunnington, NASA's chief information officer, has announced her resignation after spending her professional career at the space agency.
Hayden in line for CIA top post
As was widely rumored over the weekend, President Bush has announced he will nominate Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden to take the helm at the CIA, following Friday's surprise resignation of Porter Goss as director of the spy agency.
CIA chief Goss to resign
President Bush announced the resignation of Porter Goss, director of the CIA, in taped comments released to the media.
GAO preaches on software development model
The Government Accountability Office believes a structured, replicable approach to software development that emphasizes requirements planning upfront could save agencies such as the Defense Department billions of dollars in software rework costs.
Info. assurance a matter of survival
According to the NSA's chief systems engineer, only those with the most assured information will survive in the Information Age.
Net-enabled command program moving ahead
The objective of the program is to provide a comprehensive suite of information services that will enable warfighters to make better, faster and more coordinated decisions on the battlefield.
Energy promotes Hunteman to CISO
The Energy Department has picked a career cybersecurity expert as its new chief information security officer.
TSA at odds with DHS IG over audit
The Homeland Security Department inspector general's office recently released a report critical of the Transportation Security Administration and Unisys Corp. for their execution of a $1 billion IT services contract to get TSA off the ground. But the IG report acknowledges only in passing that the Information Technology Managed Services contract was conceived as a $3 billion to $5 billion program. And it holds TSA and Unisys responsible for $834 million in costs incurred to date, while mentioning only in a footnote that DHS itself spent some of that money on department programs not included in the scope of the project.
Multinational force tests collaboration
In the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, it is common for thousands'even tens of thousands'of players to participate. By that measure, the Joint Forces Command's recent three-week exercise, Multinational Experiment 4, or MNE4 for short, was small potatoes; it had about 800 participants. On the other hand, MNE4's participants were Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States, plus NATO.
Portman in line to be OMB director
President Bush this morning announced he is nominating a former congressman to take the helm at the Office of Management and Budget.
Agencies close net on illicit use of government IT
When federal agents last month seized the office computer of a NASA official for allegedly trafficking in child pornography on the Internet, a key piece of evidence came from technology developed at the agency to identify that kind of content. A special agent in the computer crimes division in NASA's inspector general's office analyzed data captured by a Web activity monitoring application to build the case against NASA program executive James Robinson.
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