Hope springs eternal at the White House, at least when it comes to Congress passing meaningful cybersecurity legislation. Read about our exclusive conversation with a senior administration official.
Even when NASA does something right, such as adhering to best practices in awarding a cloud computing contract, the space agency gets criticized by its inspector general for failing to leverage that contract throughout the organization.
Here are some questions we'd like to ask the former systems administrator at the National Security Agency to learn more about the motivation behind his leak of the U.S. government's top-secret information collection programs.
President Obama wants Americans to trust his administration on the way it collects data from Internet and telephone communications in the search for terrorists. Does the president deserve that trust?
Operating in a cloud environment opens up organizations to a new dimension of insider threat problems, says Alex Nicoll of Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Insider Threat Center.
NIST's Ron Ross sees the cloud as helping to reduce the complexity of keeping data secure. But security expert Eugene Spafford of Purdue University offers a different viewpoint in the first part of a two-part joint interview.
Imagine this: A lewd picture of Anthony Weiner is sent from his Twitter account, and he claims his account was compromised, and that a hacker sent the image. Would you believe him?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's initial move to the cloud has focused on infrastructure services and productivity platforms, including moving 22,000 EPA e-mail users to the cloud.
NIST's Ron Ross sees complexity as the biggest risk enterprises face. To ease risk, Ross favors moving data to the cloud. Purdue's Eugene Spafford doesn't fully subscribe to Ross' plan. The two square off in this interview.
Organizations outsourcing card data management to the cloud face significant security risks. How should they prioritize risks when reviewing cloud-vendor solutions? The PCI Council's Bob Russo offers insight.
By moving to a cloud-computing strategy, the city of Chicago is seeking to reduce the complexity of its IT systems and improve its information security posture, says Chief Security Officer Arlan McMillan.
Organizations looking at implementing encryption should consider taking a unified approach, says Karen Scarfone, who coauthored NIST's encryption guidance. Learn about her other recommendations.
The rhetoric from White House officials and President Obama himself finally provide proof to the long-time claim that cybersecurity is a top administration priority.
Should citizens worry about federal government IT security under automatic budget cuts? White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel thinks not. Read why.
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