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Forum On The Role Of The National Security Advisor
White Papers The Forum on the Role of the National Security Advisor was a joint program between the James A. Conducted on April 12, 2001 in Washington, D.C.the forum examined the role of the National Security Advisor in the policy formulation, planning, conduct...
[January 17, 2005, 23:00]
Microsoft Hires National Security Advisor
News Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has tapped Thomas Richey, a retired US Coast Guard officer, to fill the new post of federal director of homeland security at the company. After serving for 20 years in the Coast Guard, Richey retired in 2001 and...
[November 14, 2002, 8:14]
Do We Need A Second Internet?
News The National Security Council advisor said that president Clinton was to announce on Friday an ROTC-like program to train network-security specialists to protect the government's data. Speaking to more than 100 security and privacy experts...
[December 11, 2000, 9:33]
Carnivore Review: A 'stacked Deck?'
News The members of the proposed review team include: J Allen Crider, a senior program analyst at IITRI, who worked for various government contractors on projects at the FBI and NASA; Mary Ranade, a senior computer scientist for IITRI, who worked at...
[October 5, 2000, 8:19]
Civil Servants 'lack Security Awareness'
News A leading government advisor has heavily criticised low levels of awareness of security threats within the public sector. Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Burton, a key advisor to the Cabinet Office on information assurance issues, said that with the...
[February 1, 2007, 13:15]
Programmers Should Prize Security Over Creativity - Report
News Moreover, certification would be a must, said Jim Cohlenberger, security advisor for the Business Software Alliance, which acted as the administrative organisation for the working group. The report -- the third of five expected to be published in...
[April 2, 2004, 8:35]
Straight Talking On Terrorism
News He has served as a counter-terrorist expert and cybersecurity advisor under four US presidents and was a civil servant for 30 years. The former counter-terrorism adviser to the US National Security Council, claims to have been already executing one...
[November 12, 2004, 16:00]
Labour Peer Bangs Cyberterrorism Drum
News Back in February, several experts including Richard Clarke, the former White House cybersecurity advisor, rejected claims that a World Security Organisation should be set up to tackle cyberterror. Speaking at the Infosecurity Europe conference in...
[April 27, 2005, 15:45]
Microsoft: Two-factor Authentication Would Thwart Phishers
News Earlier this month Howard Schmidt, former cybersecurity advisor to the White House, called for companies to implement two-factor authentication. Richard Clarke, another former cybersecurity advisor to the White House, said earlier this month that...
[November 17, 2004, 12:25]
Six Big Trends Of Comdex '01
News People are looking for more comprehensive methods of security -- not just data security, but physical security," said Tom D'Auria, the chief executive of Information Methods, a management-consulting firm and Comdex advisor.
[November 8, 2001, 10:42]
Homeland Security Bill Becomes US Law
News Bush nominated Tom Ridge, the former Pennsylvania governor who's currently a White House advisor, to run the new department. The Department of Homeland Security law also creates a Directorate for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection...
[November 26, 2002, 11:41]
Government Says Finnish With IE 6
News We've advised the Finnish people to avoid use of Internet Explorer until a patch is released," said Arsi Heinonen, information security advisor for FICORA. At the beginning of this month, the National Infrastructure Security Co-ordination Centre...
[November 26, 2004, 12:35]
Report: Keep Hands Out Of Nanotech
News During a presentation earlier this year at a Foresight Institute conference devoted to exploring policy and technical issues surrounding nanotech, a former national security advisor for Al Gore predicted sharp government interest and involvement.
[November 25, 2002, 8:18]
White House Preps Cybersecurity Plan
News Prepared by Richard Clarke, President Bush's special advisor for cyberspace security, the draft says changes "will be needed" in key Internet protocols and endorses "trustworthy computing" technologies such as Microsoft's proposed system.
[September 17, 2002, 15:19]
NSPCC Calls For Better Online Crime Reporting
News UK policing is getting good at arresting people for possessing and distributing child abuse images from the Internet," said NSPCC Internet policy advisor Chris Atkinson. The security lobby group says this request has won the support of...
[December 2, 2004, 12:15]
Defending Their Copyright With Your Taxes
News Warez groups are starting to die out, and although there's still quite a lot of activity on the Web, it's mainly between hackers and so is a limited market," says Neil Hare Brown, senior security advisor at security incident response company, QCC...
[May 12, 2005, 12:45]
E-Terrorism: An Online War?
News In a similar vein, senior advisor on national information infrastructure, Mike Rothery, argues that while the potential exists for e-terrorism to create a substantial disruption to essential services, the likelihood is minimal.
[November 29, 2002, 9:44]
Black Hat Gears Up In Las Vegas
News One is from Richard Clarke, President Bush's former special advisor on cyberspace security. The other keynote speaker will be Tony Sager, vulnerability chief of the National Security Agency, who will talk about creating government security...
[July 31, 2007, 9:43]
Security Guru Warns Of Cyberpolice Shortage
News Howard Schmidt, former cybersecurity advisor for the White House, has claimed there aren't enough trained police officers in the world to tackle cybercrime effectively. Speaking at the e-Crime Congress in London on Wednesday, Howard Schmidt, who is...
[April 6, 2005, 16:30]
Government Launches New E-crime Unit
Blog I was at a meeting last week with Microsoft's security advisor and ex-FBI agent Ed Gibson (speaking at the RSA Security Conference, in London on 27 October) who told us to expect some news about a new e-crime unit and seems he was spot on as a...
[September 30, 2008, 14:45]
