Featured Job- Information Technology Specialist with NPPD at DHS

At the full performance level, some of the major duties are as follows:

Strategic Analysis: Serve as a leading team member responsible for overseeing and coordinating response to cyber incidents of national significance; triaging and correlating cyber security incidents; providing on-site incident response; performing analysis that involves advising customers on strategies to…

Featured Job- Cyber Architect at Northrop Grumman

The Cyber Architect will lead the technical strategy and engineering direction for the Intelligence Systems Division’s Cyber mission area strategy. Key technical areas include computer network operations; advanced networking and telecommunications; information assurance and integrity; information security; software engineering; information management; identity management; and data exploitation and visualization; as applied to cyber security operations and mission management. Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to developing new innovative…

Search Engines Capturing Data, Two Ways to Address the Issue

Privacy advocates have consistently questioned the data capture policies of large scale search engines, such as Google, Microsoft Bing and Yahoo. Google and Microsoft have each taken widely different approaches to the issue.

Microsoft search engine Bing announced Monday a change to its Internet Protocol (IP) address capture policies that is designed to limit its storage of IP addresses according…

Featured Job- Cyber Security Engineer at Booz Allen

Work in partnership with clients to develop Information Assurance capabilities, share best practices, and solve our client’s most difficult IA and Security problems. Perform analysis, design, development, implementation, accreditation, and evaluation of complex mission systems. Develop and apply advanced methods, theories, and compliance techniques in the investigation and solution of complex and advanced problems and integrated security system solutions that will ensure proprietary and confidential data systems are…

Despite the Challenges, ‘Let’s Put Our Trust in Schmidt’

In December, President Barack Obama announced the appointment of Howard Schmidt to the position of cybersecurity coordinator, which has sat vacant since its creation in May 2009. Schmidt, a veteran of industry and previous administrations, will be responsible for coordinating the national effort to better secure U.S. cyber infrastructure.

The U.S. is consistently…

Government Contractors: Defenders of Our Networks

Despite the issues of in-sourcing and Secretary of Defense Gate’s cuts to military hardware programs, government contractors are seeking to diversify their offerings by moving into the cyber security realm. The US government is presently ill-equipped to handle the range of cyber attacks against US systems and networks and the private sector is stepping in to lend a…

Britain’s Conservatives Attack Labour Government over Cyber

Late last week, David Cameron, head of the Conservative Party in the UK, outlined his parties plans to handle national security issues. The plans highlight the central role that cyber security now plays in any national security discussions.

In the report, the Conservatives say “the reliance of developed societies and economies on networks and computer…

Featured Job- Senior Cyber Testing Engineer with SAIC

The SAIC Information Operations Division of the Intelligence and Information Solutions Business Unit currently has an opening for a Senior Cyber Test Engineer. Must have a current Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Description of Duties: Prepare Developmental and Operational Test & Evaluation (DT&E/OT&E) plans and procedures, and conduct tests based on approved procedures • Perform hands-on functional testing of various IO systems, tools, and networks • Design developmental and operational network test plans and…

Australia Opens Center for Cyber War

The Australian Department of Defense has opened a new center for cyber security in Canberra. The center will be staffed over 50 existing staff from the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) and will also include representatives from Australian intelligence (ASIO), the Australian federal police and the Attorney General’s Office.

The center is supposed to eventually be staff by as…

DARPA Looks to Develop National Cyber Range

The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is moving forward with plans to develop at National Cyber Range through contract awards to Lockheed Martin and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Under the contracts, both will be responsible for developing prototypes of a National Cyber Range, which will help cyber testing through an advanced computer and networking system.

The…