When a consortium of federal agencies and private organizations circulated among federal agencies earlier this year the Consensus Audit Guidelines, the IT security team at the State Department mapped these 20 most critical cybersecurity controls against security incidents reported by State to the Department of...
To get a peak as to how IT security will be measured after FISMA, take a look at what's happening at Foggy Bottom.
The State Department in 2006 instituted its Risk Scoring Program, which is aimed at pinpointing and correcting the worst vulnerabilities on any particular day on any of its worldwide systems and...
Interview with Deborah Frincke of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Deborah Frincke is leading a team of computer scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, one of nine Department of Energy national labs, to find new ways to defend government IT systems.
In an interview with the...
Audit and enterprise risk - they're inextricably linked. As cyber threats grow - from the inside and out - require organizations and their regulators to pay closer attention to technology and information security.
What are some of the key audit and risk trends to track? David Melnick of Deloitte answers that...
From his perch as executive director of (ISC)2, the not-for-profit certifier of IT security professionals, and as the former CIO at the Interior Department, Hord Tipton has a close-up view on what works and doesn't work in regards of training government employees on information security awareness.
In an interview...
Ari Schwartz wants you to help draft the new federal Privacy Act, and he's providing the tool for you to do that.
Schwartz is vice president and chief operating officer of the public interest group Center for Democracy and Technology, which has on its site, at eprivacyact.org, a wiki in which cybersecurity...
With the Obama administration's focus on cybersecurity, this is a good time to start or move into an information security career. And Regis University in Colorado is one institution offering state-of-the-art education for undergraduates and graduates alike.
In an exclusive interview, Daniel Likarish, faculty of the...
Cybersecurity isn't getting as much publicity in and around Washington as it did a month ago, when speculation was hot about what was in White House adviser Melissa Hathaway famous 60-day review of federal government cybersecurity policy and President Obama announced he intends to name a cybersecurity...
On Thursday, the World Health Organization declared the H1N1 virus to be the first global pandemic in over 40 years.
In an exclusive interview, pandemic expert Regina Phelps explains exactly what this means, discussing:
How organizations should respond to this announcement;
Lessons learned so far from the H1N1...
After nearly seven years as Michigan chief information security office, Dan Lohrmann got promoted earlier this year to the post of state chief technology officer. But despite new responsibilities, Lohrmann remains a key knowledge center on how Michigan handles information security.
Lohrmann, in an interview, says...
Data and privacy protection - there's much that government, industry and consumers alike can do to improve information security. And the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is at the heart of education and enforcement efforts.
In an exclusive interview, the FTC's Joel Winston discusses:
Top privacy risks facing...
Tom Stanton, a fellow at the Center for the Study of American Government at Johns Hopkins University, knows cybersecurity and government, having authored last year's study, Defending Cyberspace: Protecting Individuals, Government Agencies and Private Companies Against Persistent and Evolving Threats.
In an...
Eugene Spafford, one of the nation's top information security experts who heads Purdue University's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, likes the fact that cybersecurity is getting the attention he feels it long deserved from the White House and Congress.
Still Spaf - as he's...
The law rarely keeps pace with advancements in information technology, and the 35-year-old federal Privacy Act has failed to provide the proper framework needed to protect the privacy of citizens.
Dan Chenok chaired the federal Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board that issued a report entitled Toward a...
Charlotte, N.C., Chief Information Security Office Randy Moulton, unlike his counterparts in the federal government, is responsible for writing the regulations that guides the city government secure its IT security.
As Moulton explains in this interview with Information Security Media Group's Eric Chabrow, ...
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