A Senate bill to establish an office of cybersecurity in the White House is in the works.
The legislation, sponsored by Sens. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Olympia Snowe of Maine, would establish a permanent cybersecurity official who would report directly to the President.
A single undercover investigator used fraudulent documents to obtain four valid passports from the State Department last year, the Government Accountability Office revealed Monday.
Cybersecurity is a major priority of the Obama Administration, and at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, it's a key component of the CERT Program's Survivability and Information Assurance (SIA) curriculum.
In an exclusive interview, Lawrence Rogers, chief architect of the SIA program,...
Rod Beckstrom cited the lack of appropriate funding and the growing cybersecurity role of the National Security Agency, the super-spy agency administered by the Defense Department, as reasons behind his resignation as director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) effective...
Vivek Kundra, tapped Thursday as the nation's first federal chief information officer, will have a second day job, that of administrator of e-government and IT in the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Cybersecurity is a major priority of the Obama Administration, and at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, it's a key component of the CERT Program's Survivability and Information Assurance (SIA) curriculum.
In an exclusive interview, Lawrence Rogers, chief architect of the SIA program,...
With nearly 95,000 federal workers that's almost 8 percent of the government workforce telecommuting at least part time, information security managers face the constant challenge of assuring that data and systems remain safe from those accessing them remotely.
As financial institutions and other organizations continue to lay off professionals in this economic recession, the ones left standing face the big question: How do I protect my career?
The Washington think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies released in December a report from the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, a bipartisan comprehensive study initiated in 2007 of the cybersecurity challenges the next president would face. Among the commission's recommendation...
A consortium of federal agencies and private organizations has just released the first version of the Consensus Audit Guidelines (CAG), which defines the most critical cyber security controls to protect government agencies and critical infrastructure industries, including financial services.
Financial institutions are increasingly better prepared for a pandemic disaster, but cyber security attacks are a growing concern.
This is the message from the current and past chairmen of the Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (FSSCC).
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With the decrease in the total number of viruses, some have theorized that the need for virus protection is becoming less and less necessary. Protecting systems such as servers and workstations is nothing new. In fact, using anti-virus software was the first method enlisted to stop malicious code from infecting and...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has made progress with its internal security controls, but still needs to make significant improvements to its security management practices.
This is the key finding of a recent report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in an audit of the banking...
Archiving is the long-term storage of information in a repository, usually compressed to reduce storage space. Archiving information helps reduce data loss, as it ensures that everything will never get lost and can always be accessed. Top priorities all in this era of e-discovery and computer forensics.
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