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VeriSign: Cybersecurity starts with schools
News I sit on the Telecommunications Advisory Committee, and it's just in the last year that we finally got to talking about next-generation networks and the impact of the threats to cybersecurity versus talking about physical telecom networks.
[January 4, 2005, 13:15]
US on hunt for 1,000 cybersecurity experts
News The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it had been given the authority to hire the staff on Thursday, at the start of US National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Effective cybersecurity requires all partners — individuals, communities...
[October 5, 2009, 16:42]
UK launches dedicated cybersecurity agency
News The UK government has announced that it is to form a cybersecurity agency, one of whose functions will be to develop a cyberattack capability. Hannigan said cybersecurity collaboration with Nato is in the early stages, but that work is planned to...
[June 25, 2009, 10:00]
White House preps cybersecurity plan
News Also under consideration are a "cyber emergency response plan" that would be activated during Internet crises and a National Cyberspace Academy to "advance research in cybersecurity education. The White House's cyberspace security plan, scheduled...
[September 17, 2002, 15:19]
US government unveils cybersecurity plan
News Sounding a call for all companies and individuals to secure their piece of the Internet, the White House unveiled its long-awaited cybersecurity strategy at Stanford University on Wednesday. Speaking to a crowd made up of information technology...
[September 20, 2002, 7:40]
US cybersecurity tsar marches on
News The top US cybersecurity official wants Congress to come up with ways to promote adoption of security technologies, and he sees a tax break as one possible incentive. When I say it is downloading a supercomputer into a laptop, it was because the...
[February 20, 2007, 16:32]
No spat here says US cybersecurity investigator
Blog In an earlier post, I flagged up the fact that the head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just happens to be at the same IT security show in London as someone who appeared to have made negative comments about his...
[October 29, 2008, 18:17]
US 'making progress' on cybersecurity
News We're much stronger today than we have been ever in the past," Howard Schmidt, independent security consultant who has served as cybersecurity adviser to the White House and security executive at Microsoft and eBay, said in a panel discussion at...
[February 15, 2006, 13:15]
US approves billion-dollar cybersecurity bill
News At a press conference after the vote, CSDRA's backers said the bill would help solve America's "cybersecurity" problems and convince more students to study related topics. Just as the threat of terrorism has been exploited as a way of securing...
[November 14, 2002, 7:59]
Security industry doesn't want a cybersecurity tsar
News Security vendors and high-tech police see little need for a 'cybersecurity tsar', as demanded by a Conservative MP last week . MessageLabs, an email security vendor, pointed out cybersecurity already falls within the remit of Ian Watmore, head of...
[November 29, 2005, 17:25]
Bush unveils final cybersecurity plan
News If it had been worse, it would have been a cybersecurity emergency. The policy statement, called the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, largely backs off from mandating that companies adopt certain measures.
[February 17, 2003, 8:19]
US names cybersecurity head
News The Bush administration said on Monday that it had chosen Amit Yoran, a computer-security veteran with experience in the public and private sectors, to oversee the government's cybersecurity efforts. As head of the cybersecurity division, Yoran...
[September 16, 2003, 9:05]
MP calls for cybersecurity Tsar
News An MP has called for the creation of a 'Cybersecurity Tsar' and a national agency to combat the growing threat of cybercrime. The agency should be a unified national cybersecurity agency, which would be a single point of cybersecurity information...
[November 28, 2005, 13:30]
Cybersecurity groups work on white papers
News Security experts formed five groups to focus on specific problem areas: creating awareness in home computer users and small businesses; establishing a cybersecurity early warning system; making information security part of corporate governance...
[December 5, 2003, 11:10]
UK cybersecurity push to pull in SMEs
News The UK's new cybersecurity strategy will make a particular effort to engage small and medium-sized enterprises, according to a government-funded security group involved in introducing the initiative. The intention is that it is a collaborative...
[June 26, 2009, 17:10]
Ex-cybersecurity czar warns that complacency could lead to disaster
News If current trends continue, Clarke told attendees at Gartner's Symposium/ITxpo 2003 in Florida this week, the cybersecurity situation isn't just going to get worse. During his tenure as White House cybersecurity czar, Clarke was frequently...
[October 24, 2003, 12:30]
Home PCs put cybersecurity at risk
Talkback I would suggest that it is NOT the home PC, but the operating system that it runs, that puts cybersecurity at risk. And a certain ubiquitous software vendor should be held far more responsible for the deficiancies of their product.
[November 8, 2004, 0:54]
Obama to appoint US cybersecurity co-ordinator
News President Obama on Friday said the US government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions caused by computer or internet attacks, and announced that a new cybersecurity co-ordinator position would be created inside the White...
[June 1, 2009, 14:46]
Experts: US cybersecurity needs fresh ideas
News The US Department of Homeland Security is too reactionary in terms of cybersecurity threats, and needs to develop stronger incentives for the private sector to take preventative measures against cyberthreats, policy experts said on Wednesday.
[December 4, 2008, 11:35]
Obama urged to appoint cybersecurity chief
News The US Department of Homeland Security has failed to ensure the nation's cybersecurity, because the threat of cyberattacks is too vast for any one agency to tackle and must be addressed by a new White House office, as well as revised laws and...
[December 10, 2008, 8:35]
