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Sequestration claims another conference: DHS' GFirst cyber event
U.S. CERT said in an email to organizers the current budgetary environment wouldn't support the annual cybersecurity conference
Tags: Management , conferences , Sequestration , DHS , GFirst , cybersecurity , US CERT , Jason Miller
Army IT Agency showing the value, potential of emerging technologies
Greg Garcia, the director of the Army's IT Agency, said the organization has been piloting a virtualized desktop initiative and almost is ready to move into full production.
Tags: technology , Greg Garcia , Army IT agency , virtualization , virtual desktop initiative , cybersecurity , PII , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller , DoD , Army
House lawmakers press VA for more details, assurances after cyber attacks
House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) and ranking member Michael Michaud (D-Maine) sent Secretary Eric Shinseki a letter asking for an explanation on why VA didn't tell the committee about multiple nation state attacks. The lawmakers call for VA to offer credit monitoring services to tens of millions of veterans.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , House Veterans Affairs Committee , Jeff Miller , Mike Michaud , Eric Shinseki , Veterans Affairs , VA , Jason Miller
DHS finds classified cyber sharing program slow to take off
The Enhanced Cybersecurity Services program has seen a lot of interest by vendors, but few have invested in accepting cyber threat data from the government. Meanwhile, the Cyber Information Sharing and Collection Program is growing through the two-way sharing of unclassified threat indicators.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , DHS , Jenny Menna , Greg Garcia , information sharing , Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board , industry , Jason Miller
Industry driving development of first-ever critical infrastructure cyber framework
NIST, charged with developing the nation's first-ever cybersecurity baseline for critical infrastructure, says its job is to provide technical assistance to companies, but industry itself must lead the way. Gen. Keith Alexander said NSA will review the use of contractors.
Tags: cybersecurity , Congress , NIST , cybersecurity framework , critical infrastructure , Patrick Gallagher , Keith Alexander , Jared Serbu , U.S. Cyber Command , industry , Senate Appropriations Committee
NSA contract worker is surveillance source
Edward Snowden, a former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, revealed himself Sunday as the source of disclosures about the U.S. government's secret surveillance programs, risking prosecution by the U.S. government. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called the revelation of the intelligence-gathering programs as reckless and said it has done "huge, grave damage."
Tags: NSA , CIA , Edward Snowden , Booz Allen Hamilton , industry , cybersecurity , technology , whistleblower , PRISM , FBI , Justice Department , James Clapper
Agencies improving security of IT networks slowly, but surely
The White House released updated progress report on the cross-agency cybersecurity goals and found most agencies improved. The administration said more agencies are using smart cards to log onto their networks and more are implementing continuous monitoring.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , OMB , White House , Andy Ozment , cross-agency goals , HSPD-12 , TIC , continuous monitoring , Jason Miller , exclusive
NSA whistleblowers say agency casts wide net
Tags: NSA , technology , cybersecurity , whistleblower
Lawmakers, IG expose further vulnerabilities in VA's cybersecurity
The Veterans Affairs Department has been compromised by at least eight different nation state organizations that stole data from its systems, House lawmakers and other experts say. VA officials say there always are risks, but their computer security is better than ever before.
Tags: technology , VA , Stephen Warren , Mike Coffman , Tim Huelskamp , Jerry Davis , Linda Halliday , Mike Bowman , oversight , House Veterans Affairs Committee , cybersecurity , Jason Miller
Official describes rampant computer hacking at VA
Jerry Davis, who served as the VA's chief information security officer until February 2013, testified at a House subcommittee hearing that the VA became aware of the computer hacking in March 2010 and that attacks continue "to this very day."
Tags: Jerry Davis , VA , cybersecurity , hackers , cyber attacks , Stephen Warren
