DOD picks middleware for Common Access Cards
The Defense Department is adding smart-card middleware for Linux systems to its Common Access Card program, expanding capabilities beyond Microsoft Windows platforms for the first time.
Carriers add registered e-mail
Months after the Postal Service pulled the plug on its certified e-mail service, telecommunications companies are offering government users something similar.
Agency call centers get good marks for service
Call centers operated by federal agencies performed as well as'and sometimes better than'their corporate counterparts in most areas of a recent study by Purdue University's Center for Customer-Driven Quality. The study compared 93 federal, state and local government call center operations with business-to-business and business-to-customer centers.
Treasury buys software to secure network
The Treasury Department will secure connections to and within its enterprise network via authentication, digital signatures and Entrust Inc. encryption.
Telecom vendors promise to step in if WorldCom falters
While the General Services Administration is focusing on WorldCom Inc.'s delivery of current FTS 2001 services as the company navigates a Chapter 11 reorganization, chief competitors AT&T Corp. and Sprint Corp. are preparing to pick up the pieces should WorldCom fail completely.
Carriers prep for packet tapping
Telecommunications carriers are getting ready for legal wiretaps of wireless and packet-based communications.
Web app has a dynamic view of health
At 9:25 a.m. on Sept. 11, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta contacted Oracle Corp. to ask about getting a handle on critical care capacity at New York hospitals.
VA med center keeps a watch on Web traffic
The Long Beach, Calif., VA Medical Center wanted to put more patient services online.
Court will archive its sealed files on CD
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri this year will put nearly 300,000 pages of sealed documents on CD-ROM to relieve a storage crunch.
Cyber Eye: Standards don't cancel responsibility
A consortium of public and private experts last month released a baseline security configuration for Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. Dozens of agencies, companies and nonprofit organizations joined in the effort to shape the consensus benchmark, vetted by Microsoft Corp.
See you, see me
The Rolm CBX 9000 telephone switches at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., had been humming along since 1986'a long lifetime for such equipment.
DOD to use Schlumberger middleware for Common Access Cards
The Defense Department is adding smart-card middleware for Linux systems to its Common Access Card program, expanding capabilities beyond Microsoft Windows platforms for the first time.
Clarke previews national cyberstrategy
Presidential adviser Richard Clarke last month told a gathering of 1,500 computer security experts that they have a duty to be gadflies.
How to secure a wireless network? Very carefully
"Wireless is a leaky environment," said Ken Evans, vice president of marketing for Fortress Technologies Inc. of Tampa, Fla. "It's impossible to stop the radio frequency signals."
No mass attacks on the Net in wake of NIPC warning
Large-scale cyberattacks against U.S. targets failed to materialize last week, despite a warning from the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center.
Homeland bill includes limited FOIA exemption
Information about IT security that the private sector voluntarily submits to the proposed Homeland Security Department would get limited exemption from the Freedom of Information Act under House and Senate versions of the homeland security bill.
Tools bar remote network intruders
SonicWall Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and InfoExpress Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., have each come up with products that work at different ends of a remote enterprise network connection to keep it from becoming a back door for intruders.
AF picks firewall for phone networks
The Information Warfare Battlelab at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, has given its approval to the Enterprise Telephony Management firewall appliance from SecureLogix Corp. of San Antonio. Now the appliance is going in at Air Force bases in the continental United States.
AT&T reassures nervous feds on IP capacity
There is plenty of capacity to handle the nation's IP traffic even if the UUNet backbone, one of the nation's largest carriers of Internet traffic, shuts down, AT&T Corp. told government officials.
Despite NIPC alert, Internet attacks a no-show
Large-scale cyberattacks against U.S. Internet targets failed to materialize Tuesday, after a warning to service providers from the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center.
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