Deloitte Provides Profiles to Help Clients Find Specialists

Deloitte, a consultancy firm with a growing footprint in cybersecurity, has added a new feature to the company website to help clients determine the best consultant to help with a particular problem. The website, found here, provides a list of the company’s cyber specialists and their particular areas of expertise.

These include:

Rich Baich Principal, Enterprise Risk Services,…

Cyber Expert: India a Partner in Fighting Cyber Terrorism

As the threats in cyberspace continue to grow, India will work to combat the threats of cyber terrorism and cyber crime, according to a cybersecurity expert working for an Indian outsourcing firm.

Clifford Gregory, senior VP (security solutions) of IonIdea, said India is and will remain one of the United States’ key partners in defending cyberspace. Gregory is a…

Symantec’s GiGi Schumm on Cybersecurity

Recently, vice president and general manager of Symantec (NSDQ: SYMC) Public Sector, GiGi Schumm sat down with CRN to discuss the cyber legislation on the hill, the direction of Symantec and how the firm is a thought leader in cybersecurity.

“Symantec is very reliant on our channel and on our partners, and…

Cyberspace Levels Playing Field According to Harvard Study

The low cost of entry allows cyberspace to level the playing field, writes Harvard professor Joseph Nye in his recently published a study “Cyber Power.”

“Power depends upon context, and the rapid growth of cyber space is an important new context in world politics,” he writes. “The low price of entry, anonymity, and asymmetries in vulnerability means that smaller actors have more capacity to exercise hard and…

Australians Look to Block Off Zombie Computers

The Australian government and the Internet Industry Association (IIA) have launched a new effort to reduce the number of malware infected computers on the Internet. The new code, which was crafted by IIA, outlines ways that Internet service providers (ISPs) can work to protect other Internet users and the individuals running infected machines.

The suggestions include placing infected computers…

China Internet Crackdown to Target ‘Overseas Hostile Forces’

China will target online information from so-called “overseas hostile forces” in its round of tightened Internet controls, according to TibetanReview.net, citing a government spokesman.  Wang Chen, chief of the Cabinet’s Information Office, said in an official Xinhua news agency report, “we will strengthen the blocking of harmful information…

Panetta Warns Cyber Attack Could be Next Pearl Harbor

CIA Director Leon Panetta recently told 300 Sacramento Metro Chamber Cap-to-Cap delegates that a cyber attack could be the next “Pearl Harbor” that the country faces. Panetta said that the U.S. is currently under thousands of attacks daily that come from Russia, China, Iran and non-affiliated hackers and that “cyber terrorism” is an area of concern for the CIA.

“The next Pearl Harbor is likely to be a cyber…

The New New Internet Exclusive: Maj. Gen. Steven Smith, Director of Army Cyberspace Task Force

The New New Internet recently sat down with Director of the Army Cyberspace Task Force Maj. Gen. Steven Smith. He spoke about the implications of social media to cybersecurity, the problem of attribution in cyberspace, identity management and how the culture of professionalism within the Armed Services is suited to tackle the…

Cyber Companies Join Forces to Enhance Training

ManTech International Corporation and Lunarline, Inc. have joined together to develop a C&A transition course for Special Access Programs (SAP). Together, the two firms will develop cybersecurity modules that are SAP specific and will utilized ManTech’s current DCID 6/3 and JAFAN 6/3 courses and Lunarline’s Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…

Europe Declares War on Cyber Crime

1500 cybersecurity experts from 23 countries will meet in Lille, France at the International Forum on Cyber Crime (FIC). Topics of debate and discussion will include identity theft, data piracy, virus attacks, electronic fraud, network penetration, botnets and espionage.  This summit represents an effort to foster international cooperation in securing cyberspace and reconcile differing privacy and intellectual property laws from across the world.