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.
John Gilligan, the former Air Force and Energy Departments chief information officer and leader in the recent Consensus Audit Guidelines initiatives, is the new board chairman of the not-for-profit Center for Internet Security.
"It's a mistake to think that without a coordinator we're not making progress," says Chris Painter, White House acting senior director for cybersecurity.
Cyber threats moving at Internet speed is making it difficult for the government and the private sector to protect key digital assets, says the official who conducted President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity review.
Streufert's work at the State Department is held as a model on how continuous monitoring and an innovative scoring mechanism can sharply reduce vulnerabilities threatening government IT systems.
Government and business must think creatively to help safeguard America's digital assets, says Melissa Hathaway, the former White House acting senior director for cybersecurity who led President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity policy review.
Hathaway, an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com, cited the innovative...
The public-private consortium that published last February the Consensus Audit Guidelines, or CAG, will issue a new report that will link specific automated tools with its critical security controls.
This application will let Navy personnel post ideas in the form of a blog and invite participation from other users no matter their position within the organization or their geographical location, Carey said.
The leader of the 60-day administration cybersecurity review compares the government's quest to secure IT assets to the Chinese strategy game Wei-Ch'i.
The Department of Homeland Security cut the ribbon its new National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, a round-the-clock watch and warning center that DHS says will improve national efforts to address threats and incidents affecting the nation's critical information technology infrastructure.
As threats to the nation's IT security evolve, approaches to cybersecurity must confront new realities, leaders of the Federal CIO Council-created taskforce say.
Interview with Myra Gray, Director, U.S. Army Biometrics Task Force
Though fingerprint and iris scans have advantages over passwords and magnetic identity cards as a means to grant access to IT systems, in many instances, the biometric technologies aren't ready to be employed alone, says Myra Gray, director of the...
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