Bob Gourley Chimes in on Cybersecurity Bill
Bob Gourley posted a blog entry on CTO Perspective with his thoughts on the new bipartisan cybersecurity bill. “Creating a National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC) in DHS with a leader also confirmed by the Senate sends a similar message (that cyber is being taken seriously), but it also empowers an individual and group [...]
Dave McQueeney on IBM’s Cyber Offerings for FAA
The Federal Aviation Administration have announced a partnership with IBM to secure the civilian aviation system against cyber attacks. IBM will build a prototype security system that is capable of scaling to work on the FAA’s networks. The system will utilize a flexible model that looks retrospectively at system attacks and will correlate data in [...]
SecureInfo’s Christopher Fountain Testifies on Federal Information Security
SecureInfo President and CEO Christopher Fountain testified before the House Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement regarding “Federal Information Security: Current Challenges and Future Policy Considerations.” His testimony also highlighted strengths and weaknesses of FISMA as enacted in 2002. Fountain spoke on keeping core tenants of FISMA related to standards and guidelines intact and [...]
US Cyber Wargame Held Today in DC
Today, the Bipartisan Policy Center hosted a mock cyber attack called Cyber ShockWave, simulating a meeting with the National Security Council (Michael Chertoff played the chairman of the NSC) and how it would respond to a major attack. The attack simulated a widespread attack, infecting telecommunications and IT infrastructure throughout the US. The simulated attack [...]
Melissa Hathaway Given Award for Efforts to Advance Cyber Security
According to an article on The New New Internet, Melissa Hathaway was awarded the Dave McCurdy Internet Security Award by the Internet Security Alliance yesterday. The awarded was granted in recognition of Hathaway’s contributions to cyber security, particularly through her work on the Cyberspace Policy Review and her subsequent efforts. Michael Hickey, the 1st Vice [...]
Lockheed Looks to Boost Cyber Security Team
Lockheed Martin has announced the development of a variety of measures to boost its cyber security team. The steps taken will include: implementation of a Cyber University; university recruiting; cyber career paths; mentoring; knowledge transfer and competitive compensation. Also, new academic graduate scholarships have recently been awarded to students from Carnegie Melon University, Purdue University [...]
Lockheed Martin Creates Work Station for FBI
Next Generation Identification, a Lockheed Martin led team, successfully delivered the first Advanced Technology Workstation (ATWs) for the FBI’s new biometrics system. The new workstations will be replacing the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), improving the ability of the FBI analysts and providers. “The current IAFIS receives an average of 160,000 fingerprint transactions per [...]
QinetiQ To Hold Cyber Safety Training Session
QinetiQ North America announced today that it will offer the training seminar, “Cyber Safety 101: An Introduction to Cyber Threats and Internet Risks” to employees. The half-day course will be conducted by QinetiQ’s Cyveillance business unit and will be held on January 19th at QinetiQ’s Reston, Virginia facility. The session will help QinetiQ workers serve as [...]
Cyber Report- US Employs Cyber Attacks Too
A number of foreign countries have been implicated in conducting cyber attacks in the past few years, including China and Russia (though it is unclear if it is government entities or individuals). In a recent article in The National Journal, Shane Harris reports that the United States has also conducted offensive cyber attacks against insurgents [...]
