Booz Allen, UMUC Partner to Offer Cybersecurity Degrees

Booz Allen Hamilton today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with University of Maryland University College to offer students three online graduate certificates in cybersecurity.

Offered through UMUC’s web-based learning technology, course credits are applicable to the university’s full Master of Science in Cybersecurity or Master of Science in…

Zalmai Azmi of CACI: ‘Our Security of Wireless Technology is Going to be Critical’

Zalmai Azmi arrived in the United States in 1982 as a first-generation refugee from Afghanistan. Two years later, he joined the Marine Corps and served for seven years as a communication and intelligence specialist. After his service with the Marines, he decided to pursue an academic career. While working at the Patent and Trade…

NetWitness CEO Amit Yoran Joins Ridge Global’s Board

Security and risk management services provider Ridge Global has appointed Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness Corporation, to its board of advisers.

“Amit Yoran brings exceptional skills, insights and experience to the areas of cybersecurity, risk management and national security,” said Tom Ridge, president and CEO of Ridge Global. “As cyber threats…

Lynn: Cyber Has Become Latest Domain of Warfare

With the standup of the U.S. Cyber Command in May and last week’s agreement between the departments of defense and homeland security to collaborate to boost cybersecurity, DoD is ready to add cyberspace to sea, land, air and space as the latest domain of warfare, Deputy Defense Secretary…

BAE Systems CEO Linda Hudson: ‘We are Actively in an Acquisition Mode’

BAE Systems is looking at acquisitions to grow in three core areas: intelligence and cybersecurity; readiness and sustainment of existing weapons systems; and electronic systems, Linda Hudson, president and CEO of the company’s U.S. unit, has told Reuters.

“The strategy is pretty straightforward,” she said last week in…

SINET Showcase Presents Cyber Leaders, Academia, Government Communities

The Security Innovation Network, an organization focused on advancing cybersecurity innovation through public-private collaboration, is hosting a summit of leaders who are at the forefront of identifying solutions to defeat global security threats.

The SINET Showcase, which will be held Oct. 26-27, 2010 at the National Press Club…

New Sly, Security Threat Discovered

Finnish network solutions provider Stonesoft Corporation has discovered a new security threat called Advanced Evasion Techniques, which can circumvent current network security devices undetected.

Advanced Evasion Techniques can also transport already-known malware or phishing programs, worms and viruses, which otherwise would be detectable and stoppable by network security systems.

Stonesoft has reported the threat posed by these Advanced Evasion Techniques to the national computer security incident…

Study: Wi-Fi Can Be Hacked in 5 Seconds or Less

Wireless Internet networks in millions of British homes can be hacked in less than five seconds, enabling cyber criminals to spy on families and steal their identities and bank information, according to a new study commissioned by card protection and insurance firm CPP.

In an ethical-hacking experiment conducted across six U.K. cities, nearly 40,000 networks were revealed as high risk. Although a majority …

Deloitte Hosts Forum on Closing the Cyber Skills Gap

As cybersecurity inextricably links U.S. national security and economic security, government leaders are working to close the cyber skills gap through cross-industry partnerships and other innovative approaches. But is this enough? Will these programs reduce risks, drive meaningful results, and make Americans safer?

These are just some…

DISA Opens Door to New Information Operations Facility

Defense Information Systems Agency Director Army Lt. Gen. Carroll Pollett last week accepted a ceremonial key to the new DISA facility at the new headquarters command building at Fort Meade, Md.

The ceremony marks the first phase of DISA‘s occupation of its new headquarters facility at Fort Meade. After…