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The Security Innovation Network is a group with a mission. They seek to advance innovation and global collaboration between public and private sectors to defeat cyber security threats. They do this through a variety of focused activities and events, leading to a capstone event known as the SINET Showcase. The 2011 Showcase will be 25 and 26 October 2011 at the National Press Club in Washington DC. SINET seeks to highlight best in class innovative … [Read more...]
The USGIF will facilitate the Geoint Symposium 16-19 October 2011 in San Antonio Texas. According to the site at geoint2011: USGIF Announces First Keynote Speakers for GEOINT 2011 Symposium Confirming their participation in GEOINT 2011 are Gen. Keith B. Alexander, U.S. Army, commander, U.S. Cyber Command and director, National Security Agency (NSA); Bruce Carlson, director, National Reconnaissance Office (NRO); the Honorable James R. Clapper Jr., … [Read more...]
Last week, General Alexander (director of NSA and commander, USCYBERCOM) spoke at the RSA conference in San Francisco. He pointed out the the explosion of technology over the past 10 years. That users went from an average of 250MB of personal files, to over 128GB. The fact that 70% of Americans online are on Facebook - that 600M users worldwide are as well. This, mixed with the huge advances in programming (Watson and Deep Blue) lets us know that we do … [Read more...]
Are you striving to know more about federal approaches to cyber security? In what looks to be one of the best conferences on this topic for 2011, the American Institute of Engineers (AIE) and the Technology Training Corporation (TTC) are presenting Cyber Security: Missions, Initiatives, Opportunities and Risks in Washington DC from 16-18 March 2011. The agenda indicates this will be a great session, with a slate of interesting speakers from … [Read more...]
Editor note: Jim Youker of BAE Systems first published this piece in the Geospatial Intelligence Forum, it it is being republished here with the author's permission. Executive Summary The Geospatial tradecraft has benefited from the development of tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) that have played a major role in combating terrorism in the 21st century. These TTPs have improved the situational awareness of the operational environment, vital to … [Read more...]
DoD has announced Cyber Command has achieved full operational capability, marking another point along DoD's path to be better able to defend internal networks and computers and perhaps better able to serve in defense of other federal departments and one day parts of our civilian infrastructure. The press release is below: Cyber Command Achieves Full Operational Capability Department of Defense announced today that U.S. Cyber Command has achieved … [Read more...]
As a watcher of DoD cyber defense and cyber operations actions I've formed several opinions that might have actually turned into a form of anchoring bias. So please take this with a grain of salt, but here is my general sense of how the US Military Services have been doing in their pursuit of cyber capabilities: a) The US Air Force is frequently the Service that comes to mind when talking about military cyber. This is mostly due to an investment in … [Read more...]
The Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA) is a non-profit organization formed to promote and lead a diversified research agenda in the field of cyber conflict. The group was formed as a means to foster dialogue, lead research and develop academic programs focused on the implications of cyber conflict. To meet these goals, CCSA promotes and leads international intellectual development efforts like workshops and conferences that bring together … [Read more...]
A very interesting military organization was stood up in the late 1990's, a unit called the Joint Task Force - Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND). This command was created after a series of thorny cyber incidents that DoD had a hard time addressing with their current organizational constructs. Services had defensive organizations, DoD law enforcement had investigative and forensic experts, the intelligence community (DIA, CIA, NSA) had growing … [Read more...]
Carahsoft is a unique, trusted firm that helps government find and rapidly acquire the right technologies and helps high tech firms successfully interact with government (which has famously onerous processes for businesses that want to serve the federal mission). Carahsoft is a client of my firm and one of the things I'm particularly proud about is their sponsorship of venues where government and industry tech leaders can interact together. One venue … [Read more...]