In Depth Show Blog – September 26, 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology says it’s the “end of the beginning” for drafting the nation’s first cybersecurity framework for protecting critical infrastructure. The agency says the document is just about finished, and should be ready for release by its due date in a few weeks.

A government shutdown sounds foreboding and ominous. But some calculations make it sound a lot less awful. Federal News Radio’s Tom Temin looks at the numbers and tells you what he sees.

The registration window’s open for this year’s East Coast Trade Symposium presented by Customs and Border Protection. It’s Oct. 24 and 25 here in D.C. Maria Luisa Boyce is CBP’s senior advisor to the Commissioner for trade and public engagement.

The Department of Health and Human Services will use big data to improve the security of their computer networks. At the same time, HHS is striving to make more data accessible to the public and across all the agency bureaus. Kevin Charest is the chief information security officer at HHS. He tells executive editor Jason Miller about how HHS is balancing security and open data.