| National Cyber Security Alliance to Coordinate Data Privacy Day PR Newswire (press release) 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), a non-profit public-private partnership focused on cybersecurity awareness and education for all digital citizens, today announced that it will organize and lead efforts ... | ||
| Northrop Grumman to Showcase Cybersecurity and C4ISR Innovations at the U.S. ... MarketWatch (press release) At booth 821, Northrop Grumman is featuring programs and systems that demonstrate innovative solutions ranging from cybersecurity to C4ISR, which include the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN); the Army Knowledge Online/Defense Knowledge ... | ||
| Panel: Compliance does not create cybersecurity FierceGovernmentIT Agency CIOs are consumed with compliance and check boxes rather than focused on cybersecurityand risk management, said a AUg. 23 panel of cybersecurity experts. "Compliance is my worst nightmare," said David Stender, associate chief information ... | ||
| (ISC)² offering grants to encourage women to take up cybersecurity careers Computer Business Review The cyber security training training organisation International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)² is offering scholarships to encourage more women to plug skills gap identified in a report earlier this year. ... | ||
| Cyber Security Issues Impact Small and Medium Businesses Business Wire (press release) ... or cost prohibitive, and whose flexibility better stands the latest cyber threats and those to come,” Conner wrote in his August 18 th , 2011, Valley News Group guest editorial in Los Angeles, Cyber Security: The Futility of Finger-pointing. ... | ||
| Scholarships aim to encourage women to pursue cybersecurity careers SearchSecurity.co.uk According to Judy Baker, director of the Cyber Security Challenge UK, a competition created to encourage new people to join the industry, only 8% of entrants last year were women, and the proportion so far this year is even lower. ... | ||
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| The readers always write — and sometimes they rant Urgent Communications Last week, Mary Rose Roberts wrote a column on cybersecurity, in which she reported that mission-critical entities — such as the nation's 911 system, air-traffic control system, transit systems and power grids — are at greater risk than ever before, ... | ||
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| Dell spent $650000 lobbying the government in 2Q BusinessWeek Computer maker Dell Inc. spent $650000 lobbying the federal government in the first quarter on electronic waste exports, cyber security and other issues, according to a recent disclosure report. That's down 6 percent from the $690000 the company spent ... | ||
| Medical-device users worry they could face cyber-attack | The Republic The Republic By Janet Moore Star Tribune (Minneapolis) MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds of cyber-security geeks watched recently as Jay Radcliffe stood on a Las Vegas stage and hacked into his own insulin pump, disabling its life-saving therapy. ... | ||
| Professor Bambauer on Hacking, Cybersecurity: Video Bloomberg Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Derek Bambauer, law professor at Brooklyn Law School, talked with Bloomberg Law's Spencer Mazyck on Aug. 22 about recent high-profile security breaches and legal responses to protect consumer data. (Source: Bloomberg) | ||
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| Cybrix Group Grows Over 3758%, Places 55th on 2011 Inc. 500 List PR Web (press release) The idea at the beginning—eight years ago when we started this company—was to be totally unknown to the world outside of Special Ops. Cybrix Group, a cyber-security and technology services firm, announced that it's been recognized for the first time ... | ||
| Record Breaking Quarter in Global Security Blighted by Declining VC Investment Newswire Today (press release) From a sector perspective, cyber security accounted for $1.1 billion of venture capital investment, representing 58% of total VC investment in 2Q11. “Cyber security continues to attract the venture capital community,” commented Douglas Lloyd, ... | ||
| Android Becoming Prime Target for Malware Makers PCWorld ... 10:21 AM Attacks on Android by malware writers have jumped by 76 percent over the past three months, making it the most assaulted mobile operating system on earth during the period, according to a report by cybersecurity solutions maker McAfee. ... | ||
| Malaysia releases information security guidelines for SMEs FutureGov Magazine By Clarice Africa | 24 August 2011 The Cybersecurity Malaysia, an agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, has recently released a set of information security guidelines for SMEs in order to promote awareness and understanding ... | ||
| 5 Top Trends Redefining CSO Priorities CSO (blog) The role of government in cybersecurity is nothing new to the CSO who is already working to ensure compliance with regulations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, the European Union Data Protection Act and others. ... | ||
| "Cyber Attack" -- Why It's Not a Great Phrase (But We're Stuck With It) Huffington Post For example, in the past week the Chinese cyber security watchdog has claimed China was attacked nearly half a million times last year. It sounds fantastically sci-fi, and I can see why journalists in particular like it. But "cyber attack" is a really ... | ||
| SAIC wins San Diego airport job Bizjournals.com The design-build contract will last 30 months. SAIC (NYSE: SAI) had $2.69 billion in fiscal first-quarter revenue, led by gains in cybersecurity and intelligence contracts. Jeff Clabaugh covers general assignment and provides business coverage for WTOP. | ||
| Government to invest €15m in SFI projects Insideireland.ie Among the projects being funded include cutting-edge research related to optical sensors, energy/solar cells, cyber security, renewable gas, high-speed wireless communication interfaces and an integrated volcanic ash forecasting system. ... | ||
| Experts Say Need-to-Know Should Trump Security Clearance Security Management The comments were made at a panel during Shake It Up, a MeriTalk Innovation Nation Forum to discuss cybersecurity and cloud computing strategies for businesses, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Sensitive information should be looked at to ... | ||
| CSARN delivers business continuity and security advice in lead-up to London 2012 Info4Security Threats, risks and opportunities across social media to business (and the advent of countering fraud and terror funding through 'wargaming') are covered by CSARN's experienced cyber security trainer and advisor to UK and international police forces. ... | ||
| US Army Awards Multi-Year Agreement to TeleCommunication Systems TMC Net They are also experts in cyber security services. Government organizations utilize TCS expertise incyber security expertise, professional services, and their highly secure satellite communication solutions for highly mission-critical communications. ... | ||
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| StrikeForce Technologies Reports on State of the Company MarketWatch (press release) Our management believes that consumer Internet users and enterprises are experiencing a heightened awareness of cyber security risks, resulting in more stringent security guidelines, regulations (eg FFIEC, HIPPA) and requirements. ... | ||
| Corero Selects Spirent's Security Testing Solutions to Address Cyber Security ... TMC Net Leveraging Spirent TestCenter and Spirent Avalanche to validate the effectiveness of its solutions, Corero will benefit from a broad range of test scenarios for cyber security. Testing across Layer 2-7, Spirent TestCenter and Spirent Avalanche enable ... | ||
| Bit9's Adaptive Application Whitelisting Technology Now Integrated with ... MarketWatch (press release) Bit9's Parity Suite's adaptive application whitelisting solution protects organizations from modern cyber security threats. It accomplishes this through continuous monitoring of all software and portable storage devices running physical or virtual ... | ||
| Facebook Changes Aimed at Improved Privacy PCWorld As good as the new changes are, Facebook missed a real opportunity to advance privacy on its network, says Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant with Sophos, a cyber securitysoftware maker. "A lot of these things are quite cosmetic," Cluley ... | ||
| a Theme for Up or Down Days CNBC.com For a straight-up physical security play, Cramer has his eye on American Science and Engineering As more and more sensitive information gets stored online, the market for cyber security grows. In this space, Cramer recommends Verint To capture both the ... | ||
| Why Doesn't Anyone Want to Shout About Cyber Attacks? Huffington Post From our estimates of the cost of cyber crime in the UK (cost to business of approximately £21 billion per annum) and what we see in our cyber security work, we suspect that many organizations are under cyber attack. Targets of particular interest are ... | ||
| Industry Perspectives on Army Needs Signal Magazine Michael Papay, sector vice president, cybersecurity, Northrop Grumman Information Systems, suggested that the Army and industry go beyond defensive maneuvers to understand how the offensive works and then build battlefield systems and subsystems that ... | ||
| Smartening the power grid Times of India Working groups to examine piloting new technology, measuring loss reduction and theft through data gathering and analysis , improving reliability, set interoperability and collaboration standards and manage physical and cyber security have been set up. ... | ||
| SRI International and the National Disaster Resiliency Center Partner to ... PR Newswire (press release) SRI also has homeland security programs focused on maritime and port security, military and first responder interoperability training, cyber security, disaster resiliency, interoperable communications, and biometrics. The NDRC plans to integrate ... | ||
| Homeland Security Today: TSA Improves Wireless Cybersecurity After ... TSA Improves Wireless Cybersecurity After IG Audit. By: Mickey McCarter ... patch and configure software on its wireless networks to improve cybersecurity, ... www.hstoday.us/.../bfbb824d3c2fac205ac7abcfe8fd2988.html | ||
| G&B wins cybersecurity contract - UPI.com The U.S. government has given G&B Solutions Inc. a new blanket purchase agreement forcybersecurity services. www.upi.com/Business_News/.../UPI-91661314100383/ |
National Cyber Security Alliance to Coordinate Data Privacy Day
