Although penetration testing might be viewed as one of the more glamorous jobs in cybersecurity – think of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible hacking into a CIA computer while dangling horizontally from cables in a heavily protected room – it might come…
In cybersecurity as in national security, remembrance and eternal vigilance are essential to maintaining our freedom.
The market for cyber insurance is growing, but this industry has not yet reached the critical mass needed to reform how we protect our information infrastructures.
Vulnerability management is an essential part of government cybersecurity. It requires not only continuous monitoring and visibility to spot vulnerabilities, but also the context needed to prioritize vulnerabilities based on risk so agencies can take effective action to eliminate, patch or mitigate.
And as more people begin playing games and becoming familiar with the pillars of gaming, gamification projects will also pick up more players. Government agencies should make sure to stay on point with this trend. A good gamification project can enable them…
NIST is asking industry to help develop a solution to help ensure the integrity of data after a breach or other incident. The effort is being undertaken at NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.
Now two years old, the Cybersecurity Framework will get a few tweaks from NIST, but the community is generally happy with guidelines for securing the nation’s critical infrastructure. Information sharing remains a problem area, however.
An entire industry has sprung up to provide a defense against insider threats. TWB CEO John Breeden reviewed products from Fortscale, Avanan, and PFU Systems for Network World, and found each one concentrating on a different aspect of the problem. Dim the…
Shannon Felder, senior account executive with LEWIS Global Communications, recently interviewed Tech Writers Bureau's Rutrell Yasin for her blog, covering issues such as technology and the government sector, cybersecurity, and how public relations professionals can be more effective working with folks in…
Agencies are spending more than ever on maintaining legacy IT. But there was more smoke than fire at this week’s House committee hearing on legacy tech.
