ISA: 80 Percent of Cyber Attacks Preventable

The President of the Internet Security Alliance Larry Clinton brought insight to The New New Internet for improving cybersecurity.

Clinton supports private sector market incentives and believes most cybersecurity problems can be solved with current technology.

TheNewNewInternet: What are your thoughts on having a cyber czar in the near future?

Larry Clinton: The Internet Security Alliance is very supportive of the approach…

INSA’s Ellen McCarthy: Private Sector Ready for Cyber Coordinator

The President of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance Ellen McCarthy spoke briefly with The New New Internet about the readiness of the private sector to forward U.S. cybersecurity. Ellen McCarthy also agrees with Greg Garcia in that an evaluation of current cyber spending is needed as well as Rep. Jim Langevin, in that FISMA must be updated.

TheNewNewInternet: As someone who works with people in the Intelligence…

Cyber Certification: Really?

Since the 60-Day Cyberspace Policy Review wasconducted under the Obama administration, there has been emphasis of the lack of cybersecurity in America. With the Technolytics Institute, a cyber think tank based in Pennsylvania, findings that nonmilitary government organizations had been hacked 128 times a minute in March by alleged Chinese hackers, no wonder cybersecurity has increasingly become a big part of defending national security.

Sens….

Two (ISC)2 members for US Cybersecurity Advisory Board

(ISC)2 announced late last week the addition of two board members to the current 19-person U.S. Advisory Board for Cyber Security.

Gil Vega is chief information security officer at the U.S. Immigration and Law Enforcement Office in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He overseas, develops, and implement policies at ICE under the Information Assurance Program.

Patrick Kelly is an associate of (ISC)2 for CISSP and works as an IT analyst for the…

NIST Releases Two New Reports

The National Institute of Standards and Technology on Tuesday issued two reports.

One report, “Guide to Enterprise Telework and Remote Access,” focuses on the importance of cybersecurity when working with sensitive information and provides recommendations for keeping information safe.

The second report is a finished draft set to be released by July 31 titled “The Common Configuration Scoring System (CCSS): Metrics for Software Security Configuration Vulnerabilities.” The second reports focuses on potential…

Smart-Grid Security: Under Construction

Itron, inc., is testing its smart-grid technology with the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to make sure revolutionary IT applications to critical infrastructure don’t create new vulnerabilities. Fear not, says Itron, the nation’s leading producer of smart meters, these tests are part of an across-the-board effort undertaken by government and private industry to make the smart grid’s seals against infiltration airtight.

Twitter in Iran

Read about the ‘Twitter Revolution’ here,

Twitter’s role in Iran’s grass-root movement here,  

why Twitter delayed its upgrade here and here,

is Twitter really making an impact in Iran? here.

the State Department defending its Twitter Company intervention here,

how the Iranians are defeating government censorship here. 

NSA Email Surveillance Yields Congressional Misgivings

The NSA’s domestic surveillance program is under scrutiny, and Congressional critics say monitoring of private telephone calls and email messages of Americans is broader than previously disclosed, according to current and former officials quoted by The New York Times.

In particular, the agency’s intercepts of domestic email messages has posed longstanding legal and logistical problems, they added.

Since April, Congressional committees…

The Future of Computers: Less is More

Tom Watson, the founder of IBM, famously remarked, “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” It looks like he might have guessed too many.

Cloud computing is one of the hottest trend in IT.  Basically, cloud computing is shifting software and memory resources away from personal computers toward a common network hub shared by many computers.  Think YouTube: Years ago, the only way to view video…

Melissa Hathaway Speaks at CSIS

Melissa Hathaway spoke at the Center for Strategic & International Studies on Friday with about 100 government and private sector officials.

Hathaway’s speech stressed a need for trust among the public and private sectors, as well as international cooperation.

“The federal government can’t do by itself — it has to be done with the private sector,”…