Symantec Mugshot: Who is the Insider Threat?

Just the other day, Symantec filled us in on who was most attacked and the most frequent form of cyber attacks. Now they are profiling who some of those attacks are coming from: insiders.

In “Behavioral Risk Indicators of Malicious Insider Theft of Intellectual Property: Misreading the Writing on the Wall” authors Dr. Eric Shaw…

Biggest Cyber Threat? Cyber Expert, Ambassador to US Point to Nation-States

Rogue hackers pose a problem for the nation’s cyber defenses, but according to a cybersecurity expert and an ambassador to the U.S., the biggest threat comes from much larger forces.

At a Thursday event, Dmitri Alperovitch, president of Asymmetric Cyber Operations LLC, put nation states ahead of other threats such as terrorist groups, hacktivist collectives and organized crime, NextGov…

GSA Plans Cloud Platform for Info Sharing, Program Management

The General Services Administration, the first agency to move email to the cloud, is now planning to move information sharing and program management to the cloud as well.

Laura Stanton, GSA’s director of process improvement and communications, said the move is expected to happen in early 2012, according to Federal Computer Week. GSA…

Raytheon Tapped for DARPA Program for Mobile Thermal Imaging

Raytheon‘s vision systems business unit is working to expand the accessibility of thermal imaging cameras by making them available via multiple mobile devices.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency created the low-cost thermal imaging manufacturing program to develop a “wafer scale” manufacturing process and make thermal image devices more affordable and accessible to warfighters.

Raytheon said in a release it…

Harry Martin Says Intelligent Decisions Eyes Federal Mac IT Integration with Partnership

Intelligent Decisions will combine its cloud, network convergence and and cybersecurity practices with software from Centrify Corp. to develop solutions for federal identity and privilege access management, ID announced today.

The patners hope to win contracts for solutions that can control which systems users can access, how they access those systems and what…

Cisco Adds Former Juniper Exec Paul Mankiewich as CTO for Mobility

Cisco has named former Juniper Networks executive Paul Mankiewich as the new chief technology officer for Cisco’s mobility business, according to a CED Magazine report.

Maisie Ramsay wrote that Mankiewich oversaw Juniper’s end-to-end network architecture and that company’s installation of its products into operator networks.

He’ll now serve as CTO for service provider mobility in Cisco’s…

Private Companies Buying Cybersecurity Insurance

According to Insurancenewsnet.com, there is an increasing number of private companies who are buying cybersecurity insurance.

Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has recently added insurance coverage and risk management to its services.

The firm says the new cyber coverage will help protect private companies against damages and liability resulting from network security intrusions and privacy…

SAP to Open Lab in Russia

SAP AG recently announced the opening of an SAP Labs location in Skolkovo, Russia or as it is referred: “Russian Silicon Valley” by SAP. 

The new SAP Labs CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States, location will begin operations in 2012 and expects to have 70 employees by the end of the year and…

IBM Adds Social Net Tools Ahead of Mobile Rush in Office

The “Bring Your Own Device” trend is all the rage at workplaces across the country and IBM unveiled new social networking and collaboration applications Wednesday to help employees get on the company’s secure enterprise networks.

IBM itself is also part of the BYOD trend, as previously covered here on The New New Internet. IBM said in its…

USDA Readying Mobile App Store for 2012

The Agriculture Department is aiming for a more mobile workforce, based on technology and where its employees do their work.

As covered by our sister site ExecutiveGov in October, USDA is aiming to have 40 percent of eligible employees teleworking by 2012 according to a study from the Telework Exchange.

This week USDA continued the theme of…