Advances in quantum computing threaten the cryptographic systems now securing commercial and government communications. NIST is launching an effort to identify post-quantum algorithms that can resist this new paradigm.
IBM Security is giving its cloud-based cognitive technology Watson a new assignment: cybersecurity.
The new Watson for Cyber Security is now in training at IBM to study the nuances of security research findings in order to more effectively discover patterns and hidden cyberattacks.
IBM’s…
Have You invested a lot in your applications and want the full return on your investment? Well, You do not necessarily need to replace your legacy apps, but you do need to manage them.
As the boundary between the real world and cyberspace becomes more blurred, NIST is offering guidance for engineering cybersecurity into increasingly complex physical systems.
The use of IT systems in automobiles is outpacing industry’s ability to secure them, and effective government regulation is likely to be a decade or more away.
A cyberespionage group is using an advanced persistent threat technique that exploits an obscure Windows OS feature known as “hot patching” to cloak backdoors they have created in targeted systems and networks of government agencies and telecommunications companies in Asia and Southeast…
Where does the information security budget reside and who owns it? That's an ongoing debate as organizations allocate resources to protect critical assets in a dynamically changing technology and threat environment.
In many organizations, chief information security officers report to the chief information…
This week in John Breeden’s NextGov column, he writes about an unlikely NASA presentation that happened at a riotous sci-fi party in Reykjavik, Iceland. It turns out that all those worries about asteroids hitting Earth and killing everyone should soon be a…
Enterprise security will never be perfect, but this NSA lifecycle can help you understand your adversary and respond with the appropriate mitigations.
The IRS is preparing for a digital future as if the Real World had already disappeared. It’s no surprise that the agency’s taxpayer service has gone to hell. IRS managers and their congressional overseers have to acknowledge that the Internet is not…