Politico
With help from Eliza Krigman, Jen Martinez, Brooks Boliek and Michelle Quinn KEEP WAITING FOR THE CYBERSECURITY BILL TO DROP — Release of the Senate's highly anticipated cybersecuritybill will slip into next week, a Senate source close to the matter ...
Senators to introduce long-awaited cybersecurity bill next week
Federal Times
By NICOLE BLAKE JOHNSON | Last Updated:February 9, 2012 Three senators are expected to introduce a long-awaited cybersecurity bill next week that will overhaul the way the government protects critical networks. Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine; ...
Companies become open about cyber-security risk
Denver Business Journal
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has asked companies to assess and disclose theircyber-security risks, and the request is making waves across industry. What's more, the SEC's Oct. 11 guidance notice asked companies to inform investors of ...
Do British police get cyber security?
IT PRO
Davey Winder listens to telephone conversations between the FBI and the Metropolitan Police, courtesy of Anonymous, and isn't impressed. By Davey Winder, 9 Feb 2012 at 14:43 The Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) has a vision "to contribute, ...
IT PRO
Experts disagree on focus of cybersecurity legislation
FierceGovernmentIT
Cybersecurity legislation is needed, agreed the panelists speaking Feb. 8 before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology--but what that legislation should look like was a far more divisive issue.
Groups Warn Of Privacy Concerns In Cybersecurity Bills
National Journal
As Congress looks to pass wide-ranging cybersecurity legislation this year, several bills included proposals for increasing the flow of information between government agencies and private companies. If not implemented carefully, such measures could ...
NIST Report recommends privately led group for cybersecurity.
ThomasNet Industrial News Room
February 10, 2012 - NIST released recommendations for new, privately led Identity Ecosystem Steering Group to tackle complex policy and technical issues necessary to create online environment where individuals and organizations will be able to better ...
Analysis: Gov't must 'modernize' cyber defense
FederalNewsRadio.com
By Jack Moore Even as the House and Senate debate various proposals for cybersecuritylegislation, the cyber environment is rapidly changing, one expert says. Larry Clinton, the president of the Internet Security Alliance, testified before the House ...
Is Harry Reid Slipping SOPA Into A New Cyber-Security Bill?
WebProNews
By Drew Bowling · 18 hours ago · 2 While details about a proposed cyber-security bill remain elusive, one frightful speculation seems to be making the rounds lately: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has not abandoned his effort to shackle the Internet ...
Interactive Security LLC & Cyber Data Risk Managers LLC Announce Their ...
PR Urgent (press release)
Interactive Security LLC & Cyber Data Risk Managers LLC have partnered together to provide a complete end to end cyber security solution for businesses. Many businesses are fast realizing that cyber insurance is as important as maintaining a secure ...
Stand up and fight, or stand and deliver
ComputerworldUK (blog)
Last week's report by McAfee and the Security & Defence Agenda, Cyber Security: The Vexed Question, considered the opinions of 330 policymakers and cyber security experts in government, business and academia worldwide. The consensus is that there is a ...
NIST Releases New Cybersecurity Guidance Draft
ExecutiveGov
The guidance provides framework for agencies to establish incident response teams to analyzecybersecurity threats and determine appropriate solutions. The guide also outlines various threats agencies should consider when implementing a ...
Who is trying to join up the policies - PSN, BDUK, Cybersecurity, Big Society ...
ComputerWeekly.com (blog)
By Philip Virgo on February 9, 2012 1:01 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks I commend the debate as a good snap-shot of current discussions, including a reminder that PSN has evolved from "Public Sector Network" to "Public Service Network" without the ...
Breakout on Horizon for NetQin?
Moneyshow.com
Malware, cybersecurity, and viruses affect everyone, everywhere, so don't just look to US when looking for information security firms with big potential, writes Paul Goodwin of Cabot China & Emerging Markets Report. I used to work for a company that ...
Chamber of Commerce events planned
Morning Sentinel
"Maine Department of Defense: Cyber Security," a four-hour non-technical introduction to cyber security will explore cyber security in a community context and demonstrate how cyber attacks can impact, prevent and stop business operations and emergency ...
Cybercrime on the rise: How to protect yourself
Alaska Dispatch
“The good news for organizations is that the effectiveness of law enforcement to detect breaches increased almost five-fold in 2011,” according to the Trustwave 2012 Global Security Report, published by a Chicago-based cybersecurity company that tracks ...
Military personnel work together to spruce up local school
Capital Flyer
by Senior Airman Amber Russell, 11th Wing Public Affairs Marine Sgt. Angela Palm, Marine Corps Base Quantico sergeants course cyber security specialist, receives a certificate of appreciation from Staff Sgt. Natosha Mansker, 779th Medical Group dental ...
Cloud computing and the looming global privacy battle
Washington Post
He is co-founder and managing principal of the Chertoff Group, a global security and risk-management firm that advises clients on cyber security, including cloud computing. A grave threat is said to be stalking Europe. No, it isn't the financial crisis ...
Ideas on Fighting Cyber Crime Globally
IT Business Edge (blog)
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, discussed the idea of creating an International Cyber Security Agency (ICSA) as an independent global platform for cooperation and treaties for non-usage of cyber weapons, as well as putting in place regulations ...
In cyber era, militaries scramble for new skills
Economic Times
"We are busy and we are getting busier every day," Lt Gen Rhett Hernandez, a former artillery officer who now heads US Cyber Command, told a cyber security conference in London last month organized by British firm Defence IQ.
Government Contracting in Today's Environment: A Conversation with Paul ...
Citybizlist (press release)
Paul is Vice President of Business Development, Informational Technology and Cyber SecuritySolutions for BAE Systems, Inc. We launched right into our discussion - how can any organization, not already well entrenched with government contracts, ...
Ecrime hubs launched
BCS
ACPO lead on e-crime deputy assistant commissioner Janet Williams said: "The government has acknowledged a need to collaborate and provide a structured response to the cyber security of the UK." In the Security and Defence Agenda's recent ...
Leading Jewish National Security Organization Welcomes New Executive Director
PR Newswire (press release)
9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the US and its allies confront the Iranian nuclear threat and other critical national security challenges such as proliferation, cyber security, and asymmetric terror, the Jewish Institute for National Security ...
Today's e-Reads, Updated: FBI Releases File on Steve Jobs
National Journal
The Internet community's success in shelving controversial anti-piracy legislation is complicating efforts to pass unrelated cybersecurity legislation because some lawmakers fear doing anything that might anger Internet activists, The New York Times ...
Tech Sector Unified in Protecting Innovation and Combating Piracy
Huffington Post
But they would have hurt innovation, hampered job growth, undermined years of effort to build the next generation Internet and posed a real threat to cybersecurity. As word of the risks spread among entrepreneurs, investors, academics, cybersecurity ...
Idaho National Laboratory and Fujitsu Laboratories of America to Collaborate ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“Our objective is to ensure advanced automation does not generate new issues for cyber security, fault detection, and human systems integration.” Since the smart grid tightly couples both the physical power distribution infrastructure and the IT ...
Top Global Trends for 2012: Leading Futurist Predicts What's Next
Sacramento Bee
The Global Futures Forecast 2012 examines the future of the Internet, workforce, manufacturing, mobility, climate change, cybersecurity, water and innovation as key drivers of change this year. "Agility will be a top challenge this year for all ...
ODVA publishes cybersecurity guidelines for industrial automation networks
Infosecurity Magazine (US)
An international instrument association has published an update to the first cybersecurity standards for suppliers of industrial automation and control systems. ODVA, an organization set up to improve industrial automation processes and security, ...
Changes in IT Act crucial for fighting cyber crime: IT experts
mydigitalfc.com
The need of the hour is to enact a new legislation or amend the existing act, say cyber securityexperts. “If you list out the top five important laws passed in this country post independence, the IT Act of 2000 would definitely be one of them.
Joint Statement by India and European Union
NetIndian
Leaders also expressed satisfaction with bilateral consultations on Cyber security and Cybercrime as a result of which some concrete areas for mutual cooperation were identified. They called for continuation of these consultations stressing the ...
Corporate Office Properties Trust's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings ...
Seeking Alpha
Together, we've devised a strategy niche unique among REITs that serves the specialized needs of the US government focused on cyber security and intelligence and the defense contractors serving those functions. These tenants and the missions they carry ...
New Cyber Security Assessment Tool assesses the overall security ...
By Blackmere
IT Governance Ltd, the global leader in information security, has released a Cyber SecurityAssessment Tool; an innovative self assessment tool that enables any organisation to quickly assess and demonstrate, by reference to a ...
Blackmere Consulting
Huffington Post
But they would have hurt innovation, hampered job growth, undermined years of effort to build the next generation Internet and posed a real threat to cybersecurity. As word of the risks spread among entrepreneurs, investors, academics, cybersecurity ...
Idaho National Laboratory and Fujitsu Laboratories of America to Collaborate ...
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
“Our objective is to ensure advanced automation does not generate new issues for cyber security, fault detection, and human systems integration.” Since the smart grid tightly couples both the physical power distribution infrastructure and the IT ...
Top Global Trends for 2012: Leading Futurist Predicts What's Next
Sacramento Bee
The Global Futures Forecast 2012 examines the future of the Internet, workforce, manufacturing, mobility, climate change, cybersecurity, water and innovation as key drivers of change this year. "Agility will be a top challenge this year for all ...
ODVA publishes cybersecurity guidelines for industrial automation networks
Infosecurity Magazine (US)
An international instrument association has published an update to the first cybersecurity standards for suppliers of industrial automation and control systems. ODVA, an organization set up to improve industrial automation processes and security, ...
Changes in IT Act crucial for fighting cyber crime: IT experts
mydigitalfc.com
The need of the hour is to enact a new legislation or amend the existing act, say cyber securityexperts. “If you list out the top five important laws passed in this country post independence, the IT Act of 2000 would definitely be one of them.
Joint Statement by India and European Union
NetIndian
Leaders also expressed satisfaction with bilateral consultations on Cyber security and Cybercrime as a result of which some concrete areas for mutual cooperation were identified. They called for continuation of these consultations stressing the ...
Corporate Office Properties Trust's CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings ...
Seeking Alpha
Together, we've devised a strategy niche unique among REITs that serves the specialized needs of the US government focused on cyber security and intelligence and the defense contractors serving those functions. These tenants and the missions they carry ...
New Cyber Security Assessment Tool assesses the overall security ...
By Blackmere
IT Governance Ltd, the global leader in information security, has released a Cyber SecurityAssessment Tool; an innovative self assessment tool that enables any organisation to quickly assess and demonstrate, by reference to a ...
Blackmere Consulting
Cybersecurity, cloud computing are top 2012 commercial data ...
By Simply Security
Cybersecurity, cloud computing and a handful of other issues will be among the top data security concerns of the new year, according to a report from Thomson Reuters News & Insight.
Simply Security
Another Cybersecurity Issue - Video Security Systems
By PJCoyle
Security managers at high-risk chemical facilities already have to be concerned about cyber securityin two different (and unfortunately probably interconnected) computer systems; the industrial control system that provides access to and ...
Chemical Facility Security News
Experts disagree on focus of cybersecurity legislation
By admin
Cybersecurity legislation is needed, agreed the panelists speaking Feb. 8 before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology–but what that legislation should look like was a far more divisive issue.
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Cybersecurity legislation is needed, agreed the panelists speaking Feb. 8 before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on communications and technology–but what that legislation should look like was a far more divisive issue.
CrucialPointLLC
Government cybersecurity report urges awareness rather than fear ...
By briony.williams@commissum.com (briony)
commissum's news feed for the latest stories in the world of information security.The UK Government's Science and Technology Committee has released a report on malware and cybercrime in the UK.Malicious software, or "malware", infects ...
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Harry Reid Wants a Bigger, Badder Version of SOPA/PIPA
By Dave Copeland
Released last May, Obama's proposal would give the Department of Homeland Security broad regulatory authority over civilian networks when faced with a cybersecurity threat. The White House proposal is encapsulated in the Promoting and ...
ReadWriteWeb
Privacy Lives » Blog Archive » Politico: Senate in search of ...
By privacy
While the draft cybersecurity proposal by Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and others currently lacks any data security element, lawmakers could use the amendment process to tack on to the ...
Privacy Lives
Arab hackers break into cyber-security w... JPost - National News
Hackers penetrate Tel Aviv University Security Studies Program webpage; Site resumes regular operations.
www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=257252&R...
FBI Hacked While Congress Ponders Cybersecurity Legislation
Over at TIME.com I take a look at the different approaches to cybersecurity now being considered by Congress: But what can congress do to improve ...
techliberation.com/.../fbi-hacked-while-congress-ponders-cybe...
US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin SB12-037 -- Vulnerability ...
The US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletin provides a summary of new vulnerabilities that have been recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...
www.us-cert.gov/cas/bulletins/SB12-037.html
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