Information Security is among the top priorities for departmental and agency chief information officers, and no one knows that better than Navy CIO Robert Carey, who carries the double duty of co-chairing the federal CIO Council's Committee on Information Security and Identity Management.
In this first of two parts...
Navy CIO Robert Carey was among the first federal CIOs to embrace blogging as a way to keep in touch with his various constituencies, including officers and sailors. Carey believes steps can be taken to embrace new technologies while maintaining security.
In this second of two parts of an exclusive interview,...
Vivek Kundra hasn't been seen much in public since President Obama named him as the nation's first chief information officer in early March, but he's been busy working behind the scenes guiding the administration's IT agenda with agency and departmental CIOs and other government officials, says Navy CIO Robert Carey.
Governments and financial services companies are more likely to establish IT security policies and provide IT and non-IT employees with information security training than other industries, including the information technology sector, new research shows.
The Obama administration is getting set to sell its forthcoming cybersecurity initiative to the American public even before it's formalized.
The White House revealed Tuesday that Melissa Hathaway, acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, will speak before the...
A public-policy group financed by major defense and IT contractors has added its voice to the growing chorus calling for the creation of a high-level cybersecurity executive in the White House.
In a 13-page paper issued Tuesday entitled Critical Issues for Cyber Assurance Policy Reform: An Industry Assessment the...
The one fact that convinced me the Obama administration is getting serious about lining up support for its forthcoming cybersecurity initiative: it released a photograph of Melissa Hathaway.
Hathaway is acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security and Homeland Security Councils, and for the past...
In an exclusive interview, the cybersecurity advisor to three presidents explains how a lack of accountability hinders safeguarding federal IT and why officials who fail to properly assure government data often go unpunished.
A bill to establish a cabinet-level chief technology officer in the White House has been introduced by a northern Virginia congressman.
In a letter to colleagues seeking cosponsors for the measure, Rep. Gerald Connolly, D.-Va., says the legislation follows through on a campaign pledge by President Obama to...
Is the price to safeguard America's information systems and networks on a collision course with efforts to rescue the economy? One would hope not, but the $789 billion stimulus package signed earlier this month by President Obama that contains nearly $10 billions for IT-related projects offered very little for...
What's the rush?
Legislation to create the post of White House cybersecurity advisor who would report directly to the president, introduced earlier this week by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D.-W.Va., and Olympia Snowe, R.-Maine, may prove to be a great idea. Yet, was the legislation introduced too soon?
It's a simple proposition for successful applicants to the Scholarship for Service (SFS) Program: Get your information security education paid for, and then come work for the U.S. government.
"It's one of the most generous scholarships I've ever seen," says Victor Piotrowski, Lead Program Director of SFS for the...
"Knowledge is the currency of the future," says Sidney Pearl, Global Director of Enterprise Security Solution management for the Unisys Global Financial Services business.
And according to the latest Unisys Security Index, Americans are getting much smarter - and more demanding - about the basic information...
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