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Cyber attacks against FederalNewsRadio.com, WTOP.com part of growing trend
The company says both sites have been scrubbed of malware and vulnerabilities have been closed. The "drive-by" attack that affected the sites is a growing type of cyber hack that looks for holes in popular websites. FederalNewsRadio.com and WTOP.com are available again to users of all Internet browsers.
Tags: technology , cybersecurity , Joel Oxley , John Spaulding , Mandiant , SANS Institute , Johannes Ullrich , Alma Cole , Robbins-Gioia , Jason Miller
Symantec's Tiffany Jones
Tiffany Jones, director of public sector strategy for Symantec, joins Industry Chatter with Francis Rose to information security and management. While many agencies are attuned to the cybersecurity threat, the concept of better managing information throughout its lifecycle is one key area that agencies may be missing, Jones said.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Industry Chatter , Tiffany Jones ,
Carrying On with Continuity of Operations
More than 80 percent of the federal systems
count on private sector critical
infrastructure to work.
Should one of the telecommunications,
electricity or other providers be hacked or go
down from a natural disaster, agency mission
would be in peril.
Just take last summer's Derecho that impacted
the Washington DC area. One agency lost their
connection to the Internet for some time
because of the storm even though their
infrastructure was in the cloud.
Over the past decade or more, agencies have
applied the lessons learned from the
assortment of man-made and natural disasters
that have impacted their services to keep
their services running as smoothly as
possible.
But with the emergence of cloud computing,
virtualization, mobile computing and other
technologies, what should agencies keep in
mind to ensure the continuity of operations?
How is the idea of COOP and disaster recovery
changing?
The panel, Carrying on with Continuity of
Operations, will look at how agencies have
implemented COOP and disaster recovery over
the past decade and where they need to go
next.
Tags: technology , COOP , Carrying on with Continuity of Operations , Eric Hennessey , Gary Galloway , Reynold Schweickhardt , Jason Miller , Tod Henby
Honeystick Project? Zero Day? BYOD?
Gigi Schumm, vice president and general manager Public Sector of Symantec, talks about computer security.
December 18, 2012
Tags: technology , computer security , cybersecurity , Gigi Schumm , cyber attacks , Rip Tide , honeystick , zero-day vulnerabilities , BYOD , mobile security , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk
Symantec fires CEO, chairman is replacing him
Symantec has fired its CEO, Enrique Salem, and replaced him with Chairman Steve Bennett. The computer security and data storage company said Wednesday that the move is effective immediately. Bennett, who will stay on as chairman, says it was in Symantec's "best interests" to change CEOs.
Tags: industry , technology , Enrique Salem , Steve Bennett
Protecting and Securing your Data in a Virtual World
Data center consolidation and optimization, the wide spread adoption of virtualization, and reduced budgets are driving tremendous changes in the federal IT landscape. In the face of all this change, one thing remains constant: the need to protect and restore your agency's data— at a moment's notice—whether it resides on a physical or virtual server. How are agencies addressing this challenge? What technologies and best practices are available? Does your agency have any best practices you would like to share on this topic?
Tags: Raghav Vajjhala , Jerry Reynolds , Gigi Schumm , Zach Baldwin , Jason Miller , technology ,
Duqu virus variant emerges
The Duqu virus, widely known as a "twin" to the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iran's nuclear infrastructure, is evolving yet again. Software security firm Symantec said the program has a new variant altered "just enough...to evade some security product detections."
Tags: cybersecurity , Cybersecurity Update , Stuxnet , Duqu , In Depth , Francis Rose
On the show today - April 6
On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Fergus Hanson , Lowry Institute , Brookings Institution , Tammy Flanagan , NITP , Patti Titus , retirement , data breach , Rick Kiernan , GSA , Jeff Denham
Data breach costs decline
Costs from data breaches are down, according to a new study by Symantec and the Ponemon Institute. In 2011, the average cost of a data breach was $5.5 million dollars — a decrease of 24 percent from the previous year. Similarly, the cost per compromised record was $194 dollars per compromised record, CIO.com reports on the study's results.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , technology , cybersecurity , Ponemon Institute , data breach
D.C. tops cybercrime risk list
According to a new report by Symantec's Norton Internet Security and Sperling's BestPlaces, Washington, D.C. has the highest risk of cybercrime in the country.
Tags: cybercrime , cybersecurity , Cybersecurity Update , Federal Drive , technology
