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  • White House Names New Cybersecurity Chief

    White House Names New Cybersecurity Chief
    The White House moved quickly Thursday to name Michael Daniel as President Obama's cybersecurity adviser to replace retiring Howard Schmidt. Daniel assumed the key position immediately as Congress ...
    2012-05-17T16:00:00Z by Judi Hasson
  • The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative

    The Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) was launched by President George W. Bush in January 2008. President Obama determined that the CNCI and its associated activities should ...
    Source: The White House
  • Security, Cloud Key To Nuclear Security Agency's New IT Infrastructure

    Security, Cloud Key To Nuclear Security Agency's New IT Infrastructure
    Security, mobility and social networking are driving a new vision within the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) that's led the department to embrace cloud computing. This fall, the ...
    2012-05-17T14:05:00Z by Dan Verton
  • Get Stupid: Dumb Devices Can Stop Cyberattacks - If The People Are Smart

    Get Stupid: Dumb Devices Can Stop Cyberattacks - If The People Are Smart
    On a fine spring day in the nation's capital, I'm not the only one to succumb to the temptation to work from home instead of heading into an airless office building. But cybersecurity experts warn ...
    2012-05-17T13:00:00Z by AOL Defense
  • Hackers Pose Costly Future For Military Jets Warns Cartwright

    Hackers Pose Costly Future For Military Jets Warns Cartwright
    The Pentagon's most expensive program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, might prove to be as vulnerable to enemy hackers as inadequately armored Humvees were to roadside bombs, and could prove even ...
    2012-05-16T11:28:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • FedRAMP Cloud Security Program Names First Accredited Assessors

    FedRAMP Cloud Security Program Names First Accredited Assessors
    The federal office charged with promoting the sharing of security credentials for government cloud computing systems, known as FedRAMP, has released the first list of accredited Third Party ...
    2012-05-15T09:25:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • Testimony Points To Innovation As Remedy To Tech Challenges

    Testimony Points To Innovation As Remedy To Tech Challenges
    The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a field hearing on technology and the federal government Friday in Northern Virginia, where they heard testimony from large and small ...
    2012-05-11T14:00:00Z by AOL Staff
  • Safari-Gate: Did Google Break Government Computing Laws?

    Safari-Gate: Did Google Break Government Computing Laws?
    On February 17, The Wall Street Journal reported that a researcher working for them discovered that Google ran hidden code designed to circumvent the security settings on Apple devices that use the ...
    2012-05-10T15:03:00Z by Doug Miller
  • Securing the Mobile Frontier

    Securing the Mobile Frontier
    Barbara Fast was among those on a CGI mobile securty panel at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C. on February 16, 2012. COMMENTARY: Cybersecurity in the mobile age is everyone's ...
    2012-05-10T11:00:00Z by Barbara Fast
  • Cybersecurity: Top Secret System Compromised

    Cybersecurity: Top Secret System Compromised
    The Ministry of Defence Main Building in London. Information became public last week about another successful cyber attack. While that has become the norm, what makes this different is that ...
    2012-05-07T12:10:00Z by Kevin G. Coleman
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