Former acting cybersecurity czar Melissa Hathaway, who in early 2009 led the Obama administration’s 60-day review of cybersecurity policy and who is now a senior advisor working at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science…
In a notice published this week in the Federal Register, the National Science Foundation’s National Coordination Office for Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NCO/NITRD) announced three new federal cybersecurity research themes that represent a…
No sooner did the Federal Information Security Amendment (FISA) Act (H.R. 4900) clear the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization and Procurement, another cybersecurity bill was introduced and referred to the…
The Department of Homeland Security is apparently ready to move forward with a pilot of capabilities to test its Einstein 3 intrusion detection and prevention system. The plan is to work with a commercial service provider…
With the tremendous rise in observed security events seen by security administrators for both the Senate and House of Representatives, Congressional leaders are facing the reality that they need to do more to secure systems, data,…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published a set of information detailing some of the ways that U.S. federal agencies collect information from social networking and other online sites in the scope of law enforcement investigations….
In comments justifying a requested $15 million operating budget increase for fiscal 2011, the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms stressed the need to improve computer security in the face of an extraordinary rise in security “events,” which reported went…
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