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The National Security Agency has certified a General Dynamics-made encryptor to store classified information at the top secret level and below. General Dynamics’ C4 systems business unit built the TACLANE-1G encryptor to work inside vehicles, remote command posts and data centers, the company said. TACLANE is also designed for use wherever government and military personnel travel or [...]
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Accumulo, a big data storage software program developed by the National Security Agency, could soon be sold on the commercial market as a company owned by NSA technologists has partnered with Hadoop to take the program to market. According to InformationWeek, Sqrrl has raised $2 million in venture funding and the NSA submitted Accumulo to [...]
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Cloud computing can be a defensive architecture against threats from hackers to government infrastructure, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander said Thursday. American Forces Press Service reports Alexander, also head of U.S. Cyber Command and Central Security Service, addressed a U.S. Chamber of Commerce cybersecurity summit in Washington. According to Amaani Lyle’s article, Alexander estimated [...]
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Army Gen. Keith Alexander recently told a Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association conference that U.S. Cyber Command is on a path to becoming a unified combatant command, Defense News reports. Alexander serves as commander of Cybercom and director of the National Security Agency, with both based at Fort Meade, Md. Cybercom reports to Strategic Command, [...]
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Offensive and defensive cyber teams need to be on the same team, the National Security Agency‘s director recently said. Federal News Radio reports Army Gen. Keith Alexander, also head of U.S. Cyber Command, told an AFCEA conference the military is well-suited to play both offense and defense and has the right personnel for both. In [...]
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In an interview with Nextgov, National Security Agency Compliance Director John DeLong said computers autonomously make many legal and policy decisions for intercepting public communications. DeLong told writer Aliya Sternstein agents have limited time to observe the increasing number of messages and data patterns to analyze, with automated systems filling in that time gap. However, [...]
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Gen. Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, addressed hackers at the DefCon conference Friday to pitch his agency as a potential employment opportunity, CNN Money reports. According to Stacy Cowley, more than 16,000 people turned out at the Las Vegas conference. Alexander spoke to a standing-room only audience at [...]
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Harris Corp. has received National Security Agency certification to implement a radio waveform in a multiband manpack tactical radio, the company announced Tuesday. The waveform was developed for the Defense Department’s Joint Tactical Radio System program to provide warfighters ad-hoc voice, data and networking in the field. This is the first NSA Type-1 certified implementation [...]
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The National Security Agency is pushing for a complete end-to-end reliance on commercial communications technology, a top agency official recently said, according to AOL Government. At an AFCEA mobile security forum, Deborah Plunkett, the agency’s director of information assurance, said the NSA has started a “deep dive,” exploring how to use hardware and software encryption [...]
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Iran turned to a Hungarian cyber lab and a Russian security firm for answers after the country discovered the Flame virus, the Washington Post reports. Kapersky Lab experts concluded that Flame was created by the same group or groups that developed the Stuxnet worm, which targeted industrial systems and equipment. A former U.S. intelligence official [...]
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