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Survey: 9% Have Experienced ID Theft

Of Theft Cases, 6% Involve Medical ID
About 9 percent of Americans have experienced an identity theft crime directly or through an immediate family member, a new survey shows.

GAO: CNCI's Goals are at Risk

Kundra Says GAO Misguided on One Recommendation
The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative will not fully achieve its goal to reduce vulnerabilities, protect against intrusions and anticipate future threats unless several challenges to its objectives are met.

Howard Schmidt Dismisses Cyberwar Fears

Cybersecurity Coordinator: Defense of Critical IT Improved
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt isn't buying into the grim forecasts that the United States is ill prepared to defend the government's and nation's critical information assets from an immense virtual attack by political adversaries or cyber criminals.

FBI Chief Calls for Business Cooperation

Mueller: Agency Sensitive to Private-Sector Concerns
"Historically, there's been a dichotomy between network security on the one hand and investigative process on the other," FBI Director Robert Mueller says. "It has been a great divide between us but needn't be."

Survey: Security Salaries Are Up

Government is hiring specialists
A majority of information security professionals received salary increases last year despite the economic recession, a new survey shows.

Napolitano Seeks Private-Sector Infosec Help

DHS Chief Unveils Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign Competition
"A really secure cyber environment is as much about people and habits and culture as it is about machines," DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano tells RSA 2010 Conference attendees.

White House Partly Lifts CNCI Secrecy

Schmidt Announces Declassification in RSA Keynote
The Obama administration posts a declassified summary of the government's Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a highly secret Bush-era program aimed at securing the nation's critical IT security assets.

Kneber Botnet Threat to Government IT

Though Few Sites Hit, Risk Could be High
"Saying my organization only has one compromised host to make yourself feel better really isn't realistic because that is the root of the compromise really," says Alex Cox, the IT security analyst who discovered the botnet.

Cloud Providers' Hiring Methods Pose Risks

Paper: Dubious Employment Practices Raise Insider Threat Concerns
"We're trying to hire anyone with pulse and got some knowledge of technology component needed to build this," the head of the Cloud Security Alliance quotes cloud computing services providers.

How to Manage Social Media - Jerry Mechling, Harvard Kennedy School

Insights from Jerry Mechling of the Harvard Kennedy School
From blogs to wikis, Facebook to Twitter, social media have taken over the workplace.

But how do security leaders manage social media before all these new tools and technologies become unmanageable?