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Entries from Realtime Community | Messaging and Web Security tagged with 'cybersecurity'


Open Source Intelligence and Cyberspying

The New York Times has a cybersecurity-with-a-human-interest-angle story well worth reading. It covers some of the work of Rafal Rohozinski, a social scientist turned cyber-investigator....

Rethinking Cybersecurity Strategies

The New York Times article U.S. Steps Up Efforts in Digital Defenses mentions vague references to increasingly sophisticated attacks on U.S. cyberinfrastructure. Even with few details, the article paints a clear picture: our usual methods for securing IT systems are...

Cyber War Games

ReadWriteWeb reports on some of the damage done to national security interests in 2007:...

Interview with Cybersecurity

The Center for Strategic and International Studies Cybersecurity Commission is chaired by Jim Langevin (D-RI) who was interviewed last week....

Cybersecurity Regulation on the Horizon

A government and industry panel sees a need for change when it comes to cybesecurity policy....

Who and What to Look For in Cybersecurity Czar

As a follow-up to a previous post on cyber-security policy, lets take a look at what kind of person we'd want on the front line leading such an effort....

Scope of Cybersecurity Policy

TechDirt poses an important question about cybersecurity policy, what should it cover? Government and business are fundamentally different (the current economic situation not withstanding) but basic security practices are universal....

Another Item for Obama's To Do List: Cybersecurity

It seems to be in vogue for news agencies to push "Memos to the President Elect." I could do without the pretensions but I was glad to see at least CNN took on the issue of cybersecurity....

GAO says US-CERT Not Meeting Cybersecurity Needs

The GAO came down hard on the Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) for not adequately addressing cybersecurity needs of the country, in part at least, because it is "bedeviled by frequent management turnover, bureaucratic challenges" according to MSNBC....

Private, Public Sectors Look to Each Other to Solve Security Problems

The LA Times story Public, private sectors at odds over cyber security is not your typical high profile security story. Rather than focus on a single data breach or a new vulnerability, it looks at the question of how to...

Feds: We Need A Manhattan Project for Cybersecurity

Internet security isn't working and it needs a massive overhaul. That's the message that's coming from this countries military and national security agencies according to a recent article in BusinessWeek entitled "Defenseless on the Net." So what will a more...

Feds WantTo Spend $30 Billion on Security

The Bush administration is advocating spending up to $30 million dollars over the next seven years to improve the security of communications networks; the plan calls for $6 billion in the first year. As George Hulme points out in his...

McAfee CEO: Cybercrime Bigger Than Drug Trade

In a keynote address to the InformationWeek 500 conference, McAfee CEO David DeWalt summarized the state of cybercrime and the security market, including something of a wake up call: DeWalt said "it's amazing how low the awareness is of cyber-security...

Law Enforcement Wants to Learn from Cybersecurity

CQ Homeland Security is reporting that U.S. attorney's are joining a conference on cybersecurity. The Government Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams Conference starts today and judging from the CQ article, there will be a lot emphasis on improving...

Former Cybersecurity Czar Argues for Better Data Loss Prevention

I hate to write anything that might sound like fear mongering and I can't stand Chicken Little-esque stories on how the security sky is falling, but I make an exception for Richard Clarke. This is the guy who made a...

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