cyber security homeland
nCircle Solutions for NERC CIP Compliance
White Paper This standard was passed in 2003, in response to the Homeland Security Act of 2002. The original guidelines addressing cyber security in the energy infrastructure are... [12 Nov 2009]
Seven Practical Steps for Federal Cyber Security and FISMA Compliance
White Paper In fact, federal civilian agencies reported three times more cyber security incidents in 2008 than in 2006, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The... [06 Oct 2009]
Homeland Security hires ex-hacker
News Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat and Defcon hacker and security conferences, was among 16 people sworn in on Friday to the US Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). The HSAC... [08 Jun 2009]
Obama: 'We are underprepared for cyber attack'
News The origin of many of the feds' cyber security headaches can be traced back to the process that led to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) nearly... [01 Jun 2009]
Cyber security: War Games or Mission Impossible?
News The global digital infrastructure is "neither secure enough nor resilient enough for what we use it for today", which means fixing it is one of the biggest economic and national security problems of the 21st century,... [24 Apr 2009]
Cyber Security R&D: Portfolio Overview
White Paper This presentation focuses on the different cyber security R&D portfolios. It defines the scope of cyber security R&D portfolio, and analyzes the different... [02 Mar 2009]
Obama 'needs new cyber-security tsar'
News The Department of Homeland Security has failed to ensure the nation's cybersecurity, a new report to be released Monday concludes, because the threat of cyberattacks is too vast for any one agency to... [08 Dec 2008]
Stark warning over cyber attacks on UK businesses
News In the US, the Department of Homeland Security National Cybersecurity Division has tripled its budget to $350m over the past two years to upgrade security systems protecting critical... [29 Oct 2008]
Botnets: 'We're screwed', warn security experts
News Jordana Siegel, deputy director of outreach and awareness in the National Cyber Security Division of the US Department of Homeland Security, said: "We're seeing a... [10 Apr 2008]
US fills top cyber-security post at last
News More than a year after US Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff publicly promised to bring in a top cyber security specialist, he has finally hired one. The... [19 Sep 2006]
US cyber spies want more rights to snoop
News But obtaining individual warrants "is less well-suited to provide the agility to detect and prevent attacks against the homeland" than it was during the Cold War era, Hayden said, particularly when investigators are in... [27 Jul 2006]
US ill-prepared for "cyber Katrina"
News The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-Cert, which bears primary responsibility for co-ordinating responses to cyber attacks, receives on average $70m per year, or about 0.2 per cent of the entire US Department... [26 Jun 2006]
Cyber security 'not keeping pace with threats'
News Schmidt was joined on the panel by Andy Purdy, acting director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security; Daniel Mehan, former chief... [15 Feb 2006]
US tax breaks for secure firms?
News Andy Purdy, acting director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Division, said in a speech that his agency is also working closely with the private sector to equip itself for... [28 Sep 2005]
Malware ID scheme set to sort naming muddle
News This time, US-CERT, the part of the US Department of Homeland Security that co-ordinates response to cyber attacks, is running the show. The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team is... [23 Sep 2005]
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