Keep your eyes on the flyer
If you thought airport security was tight now, you could be in for a surprise in the not-too-distant future.
Peter Tseronis | Transition Leader
Peter Tseronis is acutely aware of OMB's order for agencies to transition to IPv6. But Tseronis, who is overseeing the Education Department's transition, sees that mandate as an opportunity rather than a chore.<br><b>2007 GCN IT Leadership Award winner</b>
Bill Jackson | Industry faces up to NIST challenge for better biometrics
Industry rises to NIST's challenge to improve algorithms for biometrics.
Phil Libin | Getting real
Phil Libin, president and co-founder of CoreStreet, has found himself a somewhat lonely defender of an unpopular law. He is a fervent believer in the Real ID Act, the 2005 law establishing standards for state driver's licenses and identification cards.
NIST puts its security guidelines in one basket
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a database to help agencies collect data needed to assess information technology security programs and produce reports for action plans.
Cracks in the air
Justice security expert shows how easy it can be to defeat wireless security.
West Point takes first in annual Cyber Defense Exercise
Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point won their third Cyber Defense Exercise this month, building and successfully defending a network against red team attacks.
Cybereye | ID theft plan: It's a start
A presidential task force on identity theft has determined the obvious: Both the public and private sectors need to do a better job of protecting personal info and helping victims.
2-D bar codes: They pack a lot of data into a small space
The DataMatrix standard is a scheme for encoding data, anywhere from a few bytes to a few kilobytes.
Handling the tail end of the IT life cycle
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has some advice for agencies getting rid of digital storage media: Shred. Disintegrate. Pulverize. Incinerate. Melt.
Clean sweep
Permanently removing data from old hard drives is harder than you might imagine.
Network warfare
NSA's cybersecurity Red Team battles teams from the military academies.
NIST gives agencies tool to assess IT security programs
NIST has released the PRISMA database to help agencies collect data needed to assess IT security programs and produce reports for action plans.
FISMA grades: What do they mean?
The new federal computer security report card is out, and once again the grades are pretty bad.
Stallman: Free software is matter of good vs. evil
Evangelist of the free software movement advocates rejection of proprietary software under any name.
Paint it ... sandy brown
A conductive coating could be the key to securing wireless LANs.
Technique | Virtual upgrade
NLRB uses utility computing to consolidate its IT infrastructure.
William Jackson | For virus detection, don't write off signatures
Heuristics may be all the rage, but signature detection is still the key antivirus tool.
Move Over, BlackBerry
New secure e-mail supports Windows PDAs for Army.
Government will benefit from critical mass in smart ID cards
With more than 10 million Common Access Cards issued and currently in the hands of DOD personnel and contractors, DOD has learned how make use of smart ID cards.
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