Report: WH Cyber Exec Order Draft Calls for DHS-Led Council; Richard Clarke Comments
A draft White House executive order would create a Department of Homeland Security-led cybersecurity council, which would use cyberthreat intelligence to develop security standards guidance, the Washington Post reports. Several unnamed officials told the Post the four-page draft would take months to finish. White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden confirmed the administration is considering a cyber [...]
Software security firm Veracode announced a high-profile addition to its board of directors: Former presidential counterterrorism adviser and renowned cybersecurity expert Richard Clarke. Clarke is also chairman and CEO of Good Harbor Consulting. In his role, Clarke will work closely with the company’s federal advisory board along with its senior management team to draw [...]
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Good Harbor Consulting has tapped Eric Rosenbach to lead its cybersecurity consulting practice and work alongside chairman Richard Clarke to shape the strategic direction of the practice and help clients to understand and manage cybersecurity risks. Rosenbach brings a unique combination of policy, legal and technology expertise that will boost the firm’s ability to help [...]
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Stuxnet is a word that has struck fear in the hearts of cyber experts the world over. The advanced computer worm, which bored its way into Iranian nuclear program computer networks, demonstrated the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to malicious hacking. But former counterterrorism czar and cybersecurity guru Richard Clarke says Stuxnet was actually a failure. [...]
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Don’t call Richard Stiennon a cyberwar alarmist. While his new book, Surviving Cyberwar, is the latest in a series of recent books about the global online threat, he told The New New Internet he’s not just another voice in the “sky is falling” cyber chorus. Instead, Stiennon, who serves as chief research analyst at IT-Harvest, [...]
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In the wake of reports of more countries being targeted by complex malware, cyber espionage has become an increasingly global concern for government and industry leaders over the past year, making loss of sensitive information and data an everyday problem for most nations. Although cyber espionage is relatively new way of stealing secret government and [...]
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World-recognized cyber and homeland security expert Richard A. Clarke and Orson Swindle, former Federal Trade Commission commissioner, will be delivering keynote addresses at the 2nd Annual NetWitness User Conference, held Oct. 25-26, 2010 in Washington, D.C. Clarke, currently chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, is an on-air consultant for ABC News and teaches at Harvard’s Kennedy [...]
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“Cyber war has already begun,” writes Richard Clarke in his new book Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It. He says “nations are already preparing the battlefield” in cyberspace by “hacking into each other’s networks and infrastructures, laying in trapdoors and logic bombs — now, in peacetime. This [...]
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Last week, RSA held its annual conference out in San Francisco, CA. The conference brought together cyber experts from around the world, along with notable speakers like DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Howard Schmidt, the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator. The topics discussed range from cloud computing to botnets to the need [...]
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