Bill Bratton, former chief of the Los Angeles and New York City police departments, said police departments have the knowledge, but lack the resources to attack cybercrime.
Before plunging into a Cold-War style cyber arms race with our online enemies, the United States needs to decide just exactly what cyberwar is, who should fight it and how to do it.
The White House on March 2 released a summary of the 12 parts of a classified, expansive computer security initiative that was started in January 2008.
A DOD policy that bans using flash drives was relaxed recently because of adjustments made to Defense Department computer systems. But that doesn't mean there are no more limitations on their use.
NASA has released a final request for proposals, previously estimated at $100 million over five years, to consolidate the agency's enterprise applications.
The DHS Computer Emergency Readiness Team will identify possible abnormal activities on Michigan’s networks under a new agreement between the department and the state.
The federal public-key infrastructure has seen a quickening pace of activity in recent months as the government has begun allowing more options for contractors and state and local agencies to participate in the system.
The exposure of the Transportation Security Administration's operations manual will likely prompt agnecies to review the National Security Agency's guidance on how to safely redact information from documents posted to the Web.
A NARA office wants to establish a standardized process through which some highly sensitive data could be released under special agreement to foreign-owned or controlled contractors.
The October sale of VeriSign Inc.'s Global Security Consulting Services business unit was the latest in the restructuring plan undertaken two years ago by the IT security company.
Officials plan to build a $1.5 billion data center to bolster the cybersecurity capabilities of intelligence agencies, the Defense Department, and the Homeland Security Department.
The Health and Human Services Department announced it is preparing to award a sole-source contract to Verisign for managed public-key infrastructure services and digital certificates on the Nationwide Health Information Network.
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