Several specific and new requirements have been given to the national security community as part of the White House review of security and intelligence systems following the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas day. Collection, processing, organization, and dissemination of information is a priority in the new requirements.
This post provides an...
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Posts Tagged ‘ DHS ’
Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: The Challenge
DHS Opens the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC)
If you are an enterprise CTO I’m hoping you already have the site of the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) bookmarked. It it has been a while since you have seen their site please check it out at http://www.us-cert.gov They provide important resources for any enterprise technologist, not just security professionals.
Organizationally they have...
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White House Cyber Policy Review: And a Cyber Czar
I enjoyed listening to the President today as he provided an update on where we are in our efforts to enhance our freedom of action in cyberspace. All the details are on the White House website and I hope you visit there yourself to download the 60-day cyberspace policy review. Details are here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/CyberReview/
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New Command to Focus on Cybersecurity for DoD and IC
The Wall Street Journal just ran an article titled: “New Military Command to Focus on Cybersecurity.” In it they indicate “current and former officials familiar with the plans” say a new military command will be established to coordinate the defense of Pentagon computer networks and improve US offensive capabilities in cyberwar.
WSJ also reports...
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My Opinion: NYT wants cyber security to be a divisive issue.
I just read an article that seems designed to keep spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) about the US government and the NSA. The article is titled “Control of Cybersecurity Becomes Divisive Issue “. It starts with an assertion stated as if it were a fact that says “The National Security Agency has been campaigning...
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The Number One Reason To Move To Open Source: Security
I just read Bill Vass’s latest blog entry titled: “The No. 1 Reason to Move to Open Source is to IMPROVE Security”
Bill opens this article with: “If you are like me, and you have been involved in cryptography and Cyber Security for a long time, it’s obvious to you that commercial open source code...
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CTOs, Global Cyberwar and Our Collective Future
If you are a technologist, please take a moment to download the PDF of the report by the U.S. Commission on Cybersecurity. This report, titled Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency, is the best proclamation of the challenges of cyber I have read. It is also a roadmap that will help any trying...
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Three Events of Federal CTO Interest: Will You Be At These?
FYI, in case your schedule will allow us to connect in person I wanted
to update you on a few events I plan on being at over the next few
weeks.
The Advanced Technical Intelligence Association TECHINT conference will
be held 9-11 Dec 2008. This conference focuses on the technical
dimensions of intelligence, and has a theme of “integrated
performance.” ...
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One to watch regarding standards and security
In May 2008 I provided an overview of Standards Organizations CTOs Should Track. Standards groups don’t change that fast, so the list is still pretty much ok, but I was very light on industry consortia. Industry groups can play a large role in setting and implementing standards. Industry reps send the majority of thinkers...
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The Technology Implications of the Obama Win
There are several megatrends sweeping the technology industry today. Some of them are about to be accelerated.
I like to use five key topic areas to track megatrends in IT:
- Convergence and trend towards unified communications and user empowerment
- Globalization and increasing internationalization of IT and demographic shifts
- Increasing open development of software and hardware
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