Experts Speak on US Vulnerabilities

In case you missed the 60 Minute Segment this past weekend, below is a recap of the troubling information presented. The segment highlighted recent cyber attacks and looked at what the US is doing to move cyber security forward. It also included expert commentary from Mike McConnell, former DNI and presently at Booz Allen Hamilton, Jim Lewis of Center for Strategic and International…

Government Cyber Spending to Increase Drastically

According to research conducted by the analytic firm Input, government spending on cyber security will increase at a compound rate of 8.1 percent between 2009 and 2014. Funding for contracted work will increase $3.8 billion from 2009 to 2014.

Government spending on general IT products and services will also increase by 3.5 percent for the same time period. The estimates were calculated by looking at present contracts and…

October is Cyber Awareness Month

Hathaway Optimistic on Direction of Cybersecurity

At the ArcSight Protect 09 conference, keynote speaker Melissa Hathaway, former acting senior director for cyberspace at the White House, pointed to her belief that the federal government is moving in the right direction for securing cyberspace. However, she highlighted that currently the nation is not where it should be in terms of protecting cyberspace, and more needs to be done.

Hathaway warned cyber incidents involving…

Potential ‘Cyber Czar’ Candidates Revealed

Melissa Hathaway, Rod Beckstrom and Paul Kurtz are the forerunners in the race to be the U.S. government’s first “cyber czar.” Don Adams, the Palo Alto-based chief technology officer, Worldwide, Public Sector for tech giant Tibco, said in a statement.

The Obama administration’s information security chief (a job title that still…

Melissa Hathaway to Present 60-Day Cyber Plan

All the trend-spotting eyes in the cyber world are watching their Google alerts for the name Melissa Hathaway as they wait anxiously for her 60-day report.

Expected in the report is an assessment and recommendations on what direction the Obama administration should take to keep U.S. networks, government and private networks safe from the growing threat of escalating cyber…