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Smart Grid protected by smart money

Efforts to protect the smart grid could generate $21 billion dollars in spending over the next five years. Tom Billington, CEO of CyberSecurity Seminars, walks us through some of the issues found in a study by Pike Research.

Tags: Federal Drive , Cybersecurity Update , Pike Research , Smart Grid , Tom Billington , CyberSecurity Seminars , Suzanne Kubota

Monday - 06/28/2010, 03:26pm EDT

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White House cyberspace draft strategy released

IG: pilot information is at risk, Billions to be spent on smartgrid cybersecurity

Tags: Federal Drive , Cybersecurity Update , White House , National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cybers , FAA , identity management , contracting , Pike Research , CyberSecurity Seminars , Tom Billington

Monday - 06/28/2010, 08:30am EDT

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Information management needed to enhance cybersecurity

Learn more in today's cybersecurity update.

Tags: technology , Cybersecurity Update , NSA , information management

Friday - 06/25/2010, 05:35pm EDT

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Why continuous monitoring is gaining popularity

More and more agencies are gearing up to deploy continuous monitoring as a means of complying with FISMA. What is it, and will it come to your agency soon?

Tags: technology , Cybersecurity Update , continuous monitoring , FISMA , Eric Chabrow , GovInfoSecurity , Dorothy Ramienski , DorobekInsider

Friday - 06/25/2010, 03:38pm EDT

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Wesley Clark: cyberattacks must be stopped

Twitter settles with FTC

Tags: Federal Drive , cybesecurity update , twitter , Wesley Clark

Friday - 06/25/2010, 08:53am EDT

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Agencies get ready for FISMA changes

VA plans on implementing software to monitor desktop computers every 24 hours. NASA is developing a concept of operations plan to move to real-time oversight. OMB mandated agencies know the status of their networks in real time by November.

Tags: technology , Jerry Davis , Jaren Doherty , Pat Howard , NASA , VA , NRC , OMB , AFCEA , FISMA , real-time monitoring , Jason Miller

Friday - 06/25/2010, 07:14am EDT

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Cybersecurity bill clears Senate hurdle

Sometime in the next few weeks, the Senate is expected to take up a bill designed to strengthen the nation's cybersecurity infrastructure. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved the legislation Thursday by voice vote.

Tags: Congress , technology , Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs , Joseph Lieberman , Susan Collins , Tom Carper , John Pistole , TSA , Federal Managers Association , Tom Coburn , Carl Levin , Howard Schmidt , Barack Obama , Max Cacas

Friday - 06/25/2010, 07:04am EDT

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NASA launches software assurance program

Agency CISO Davis says many times applications are the cause of vulnerabilities in the network. The working group will develop training classes for developers.

Tags: technology , Jerry Davis , NASA , AFCEA , software assurance , Meg Beasley

Thursday - 06/24/2010, 07:30pm EDT

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