Awhile back we covered the Australian Defense Signals Directorate’s (DSD) Top 35 Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions. Related to these strategies it looks like there’s been an update to the more US-based 20 Critical Security Controls (CSC) by a…
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How Will the Next Presidency Address Cybersecurity?
With tomorrow’s presidential election fast approaching, we found an interesting article outlining the differences between an Obama presidency and a Romney presidency with regard to dealing with national cybersecurity. For the most part, both candidates mentioned cybersecurity briefly during the…
“Computer Geeks” Needed for National Cybersecurity?
We have covered articles in the past stating that there is a shortage of qualified IT security personnel to handle the nation’s cybersecurity duties. Well … we came across an article that provides a very interesting perspective to refute that argument. Security…
Pentagon Losing Members to Its Cybersecurity Program
Interesting … just as the Pentagon has opened up the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) threat sharing program to more organizations, NextGov.com found that five of the original pilot members withdrew for various reasons. The DIB Enhanced Cybersecurity Group, originally comprised of…
Tech Companies Team Up to Improve Cybersecurity
We found a very interesting article from The Huffington Post regarding technology companies and their attempt to tackle challenges in cybersecurity. Lockheed Martin, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Honeywell International, and EMC Corp’s RSA Security division are forming the Cyber Security…
Weekly Rewind – DNSRecon, FBI Website, Strategies & More…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Top 35 Strategie to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions Revealed for 2012”, 2) “FBI Website…
DHS Makes Changes to Cybersecurity Office
We came across an interesting article regarding the Department of Homeland Security and the realignment of their cybersecurity office. It’s a few days old but might be useful for those that missed it. It’s interesting that they added two new divisions, expanding…
Executive Order to Establish Standards for Legislation
We have discussed the Cybersecurity Executive Order many times before but it looks as though with the upcoming election the Executive Order will become more fact than fiction. According to a FCW article addressing this issue, Washington insiders attending a…
Final Debate Fails Cybersecurity
I didn’t get a chance to see the debates last night however I did follow along somewhat on Twitter. Thank goodness Bill “@BillBrenner70” Brenner provided a nice write-up so I could at least get some type of infosec perspective. According…
Cybersecurity Job Growth Expected as Other IT Areas in Decline
GovWin came out with an interesting report late last week regarding job growth in Maryland. At the CyberMaryland conference in Baltimore they predicted that as other areas of government spending will remain flat or decrease, infosec spending is expected to…