“Currently, no single government entity is responsible for producing coordinated cyber threat assessments, ensuring that information is shared rapidly among existing cyber centers and other elements within our government, and supporting the work of operators and policy makers with timely intelligence about the latest cyber threats and threat actors.”
As an internal investigation continues into the massive data breach reported last week by Anthem, the company has confirmed reports that administrators who discovered the breach in late January noticed unusual activity on Anthem’s database systems…
In December Congress passed, and the president signed into law the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, which provides the first comprehensive update to federal security legislation since 2002.
The ongoing analysis of the crippling if short-lived computer attack last week against South Korean financial institutions and media companies highlights some of the key difficulties facing the United States and other nations trying to establish…
The release last week of an Executive Order focused on “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity” represents the latest move by the administration to encourage information sharing between the federal government and private sector entities responsible for operating…
The joint announcement last week by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD) to formalize a cooperative relationship between the two agencies to provide coordinated cybersecurity operations to protect government computing…
Among the areas announced as federal cybersecurity research priorities for the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program is an initiative intended to promote development of “tailored trustworthy spaces” that not only reflect different…
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