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…
Lack of communication between IT departments and those responsible for executing agency mission can lead to the creation of shadow IT—unauthorized and often unmanaged applications that can introduce vulnerabilities. This is something that SecurityCenter Continuous View™ (CV) can help you identify, understand…
NIST has published recommendations for using crypto algorithms such as AES for format-preserving encryption (FPE), which can be a big help in protecting personal financial and health data.
In John Breeden’s latest NextGov column, he examines the impressive win that pitted an artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo against the top player of the ancient Chineese game of Go. And AlphaGo swept the series, beating Lee Se-dol three to zero in…