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With a little prodding from the Office of Management and Budget, agency IT managers are tying system security to their enterprise infrastructures through the budget process. Some said today that securing their infrastructures ranks just as high as e-government for fiscal . . .
The National Communications System is in the early stages of a Global Early Warning Information System (GEWIS) pilot project in which government and industry will examine the health and topology of the Internet. . .
The rage was post-9/11 when facial recognition vendors started promoting a media frenzy about the use of biometrics to inhibit terrorism. That promise has never been fulfilled...a lot of folks thought, 'Biometrics are a solution against terrorism.' From that false assumption, . . .
The Bush administration's long-awaited plan for protecting the nation's critical computer systems from cyberattacks is too weak because it does not set specific requirements for federal agencies or the private sector to follow, and politics is mostly to blame for the . . .
A White House official is standing behind the administration's draft recommendations on cybersecurity, asserting that they have not been weakened by lobbying from technology companies. . .
A White House panel said Wednesday that the nation should deal with potential threats to computer security by educating users and by letting market forces -- not government mandates -- fix problems. The recommendations, released at Stanford University, range from . . .
After five years of work, the General Services Administration's Federal Bridge Certification Authority has made the public-key infrastructures of four agencies interoperable. For the first time in history, federal agencies will accept each other's digital certificates through the bridge. . .
After Sept. 11, 2001, cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke crisscrossed the country berating technology companies for failing to do enough to shore up the Net against potential terrorist attacks. In unveiling a highly anticipated White House cybersecurity proposal on Wednesday, however, . . .
Under intense lobbying by industry groups, a White House panel studying ways to protect America's high-tech backbone has dropped several security ideas and turned others into topics for discussion rather than government mandates, according to the latest version of the plan. . . .
Under intense lobbying by industry groups, a White House panel studying ways to protect America's high-tech backbone has dropped several security ideas and turned others into topics for discussion rather than government mandates, according to the latest version of the plan. . . .
A Brown University analysis of government Web sites found that more federal and state sites are taking security and privacy seriously compared to last year. The Center for Public Policy at Brown analyzed 1,265 federal and state sites, measuring available . . .
The Bush administration will not unveil the final version of a national cybersecurity plan this Wednesday, saying it wants to gather more input from the technology industry. The White House had been expected to offer a detailed strategy for protecting . . .
The government's current snooping system -- known as Carnivore -- makes it too easy to "enable the reading of all e-mails with only a warrant," McCaffrey said. This indiscriminate access makes it difficult for local law enforcement to find useful evidence . . .
Before September 11, 2001, most federal groups viewed the Internet as a place to store their vast library of public documents and as a way to network with community leaders in a timelier manner. But in the days that followed . . .
As the White House moves to finalize a national plan to better secure cyberspace, high-tech firms and other companies are continuing a furious campaign to have some recommendations struck from the document. The administration no longer plans to recommend that Internet service providers such as America Online, MSN and EarthLink bundle firewall and other security technology with their software.. . .
Richard Clarke, chairman of the president's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, recently spoke with Computerworld reporter Dan Verton about the nature and potential of the threat to the nation's critical infrastructure and what he sees as his biggest challenges with respect to national cybersecurity. Can you briefly explain the cybersecurity threat for those who still may not be sure who or what the enemy is. . .
The carefully coiffed men wearing suspiciously shiny shoes are at every major computer security convention. They are there to remind hackers that law enforcement is always interested in their activities. They are also there to encourage security experts to become . . .
The General Services Administration has reviewed security needs for five of the 24 Quicksilver e-government projects and will finish reviews for the other 18 within the next 12 to 14 months. E-Authentication project leaders assessed the Business Compliance One-Stop, E-Grants, . . .
The Naval War College and consultants from Gartner Inc. of Stamford, Conn., last month held war games to see how easy it would be for attackers to disrupt key segments of the U.S. economy. They concluded it was doable, given enough . . .
In an effort to bolster the nation's cyber-security, the Bush administration has plans to create a centralized facility for collecting and examining security-related e-mail and data and will push private network operators to expand their own data gathering, according to an . . .
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