Cyber eye: Can a policy please everyone? Maybe
The president's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board sought the broadest possible consensus for its National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace by inviting numerous individuals and organizations to contribute. Those who were expecting to see a thoroughbred were disappointed by the draft released last month.
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With 70 members, the Financial Services Committee is the second largest committee in the House, and public seating in its hearing room is limited.
Legislation introduced to make GISRA permanent
A bill under consideration by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee would prevent the lapse of the Government Information Security Reform Act at the end of the month.
Clarke stumps for national Internet Operations Center
Presidential adviser Richard Clarke today asked the IT industry to support a proposed Internet Operations Center that could provide advance warning of cyberthreats as they spread.
Solar Decathlon uses sun-powered wireless LAN
Contestants at the Federal Energy Management Program's first Solar Decathlon on the Mall in Washington this week got their Internet connectivity from the sun. The Solar Village's sun-powered wireless LAN had "no wires to the outside world," said Greg Gordon, a Cisco Systems Inc. systems engineer. The LAN was built by Cisco of San Jose, Calif., and Electronic Data Systems Corp.
Security tools play catch-up to wireless
All the vulnerabilities of wired networks apply to wireless ones'and then some, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has warned agencies.
FBI flags top 20 security holes in Windows, Unix
The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center and the SANS Institute of Bethesda, Md., last week updated their top IT vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Unix systems.
DISA installs server-based antivirus aids
The Defense Information Systems Agency has bought server-based antivirus products from Trend Micro Inc. under a five-year, $4.6 million contract.
FBI, SANS update list of systems vulnerabilities
The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center and the SANS Institute of Bethesda, Md., have updated their list of the top vulnerabilities for Windows and Unix systems, and announced that five companies have released tools to scan for them.
Slight bump in 2003 IT R&D spending expected
High-end computing, basic R&D get the biggest boost; large-scale networking, high-confidence software and systems drop slightly
Cyberalert centers seek more cooperative links
While establishing methods for sharing information about cyberthreats within critical commercial sectors, the nation's information sharing and analysis centers learned to share data with one another'and occasionally with government as well.
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The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, has 'the world's largest cache of portable communications equipment,' said Stephen Jenkins, director of the center's Communications Division.
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.
DOD signs deal for McAfee antivirus suite
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a five-year contract to deploy the McAfee Security suite of antivirus and security products from Network Associates Inc. to as many as 3 million Defense Department users.
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.
IM-Age apps audit instant messages
IM-Age Software Inc. of Houston can monitor and secure instant messages for business use.
Cyber Eye: A digital Pearl Harbor might not be so easy
For several years, federal officials have raised the specter of a digital Pearl Harbor'a sneak attack on the nation's critical infrastructures'to push for better computer security.
Security, privacy a delicate mix
John Sabo, Computer Associates International Inc.'s business manager for security, privacy and trust initiatives, came to the private sector from the Social Security Administration, where he was director of the electronic services staff.
Bandwidth booster cuts the repetition
The SR-50 and SR-55 Sequence Reducer appliances from Peribit Networks Inc. monitor wide-area traffic to encode repetitive sequences. They can cut the load by as much as 80 percent for some applications.
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