"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."
Robert Rodriguez, Chairman, Security Innovation Network
Robert Rodriguez thinks there are plenty of innovative ideas emanating from American entrepreneurs to secure information systems that those responsible for federal government cybersecurity haven't heard of.
Rodriguez is chairman of the Security Innovation...
"Because of the difficulty in attribution, the reality is that we cannot defend our networks by ourselves," Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn III tells Australian government and civic leaders.
Just one week on the job, Schmidt outlines the challenges he will face as the president's top IT security adviser and shares some of the experiences he had during his short tenure as cybersecurity coordinator with the State of the Net Conference attendees.
Former FBI CIO Zal Azmi, CACI International Senior Vice President for Global Strategic Law Enforcement and National
Just as spy agencies have intelligence analysts, the government needs to develop technically savvy cyber analysts as IT threats from foreign nations and criminal organizations grow, says a former...
"We want to make sure that critical new threat area that we're building a foundation of cooperation with our oldest ally as we tackle the critical challenges that cyber security poses," William Lynn says.
The third of our five-part series on this year's top federal cybersecurity challenges examines efforts to reform the Federal Information Security Management Act, with or without legislation.
GovInfoSecurity.com places the spotlight on the the 10 individuals who will have the most influence in shaping federal government cybersecurity policy in the coming 12 months.
Einstein is an intrusion detection - and soon an intrusion prevention - system the government is deploying to safeguard government IT systems. Some cybersecurity experts contend Einstein has the potential to intrude on the privacy of individual Americans, a concern Philip Reitinger dismisses.
Reitinger, deputy...
Mischel Kwon, Former DirectorU.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team
The growing role of the Department of Homeland Security in governing federal cybersecurity has its limits, says Mischel Kwon, who until this summer served as director United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, the DHS agency that analyzes...
As the federal government rolls out to its agencies the second iteration of the Einstein intrusion-detection system and readies a more advanced intrusion-prevention Einstein 2, it is partnering with Michigan in deploying the original version of Einstein. Michigan becomes the first state to employ Einstein.
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