Cyber Security
GSN 2011 Awards Program opens for entries on April 26
Government Security News has announced that its 2011 Homeland Security Awards Program will officially open for business and start accepting entries in the program’s 45 awards categories on Tuesday, April 26.
Narus 2010 RSA Conference
Greg Oslan, President and CEO of Narus corporation, say Narus’s software provides real-time traffic intelligence that helps carriers, service providers and governments around the world protect and manage large, complex networks. Although the Internet is still in its infancy, Internet crime is a global issue, and it is time to set up a global ecosystem and police force. Global criminal behavior and cyber warfare may be death by a thousand papercuts, he states, but it is still death.
Obama seeks three percent hike in discretionary budget at DHS
Despite official murmurings a few months ago that the fiscal year 2011 budget request for DHS might decline slightly, the budget package unveiled on February 1 actually shows a three percent increase in “discretionary spending” by DHS in 2011, versus the prior year, and modest growth, at approximately the predicted rate of inflation, in the outer years.
Stonesoft Firewall/VPN awarded Common Criteria EAL4+ certification
Stonesoft's firewall/VPN
Stonesoft announced on Feb. 8 that its firewall/VPN product family has received the Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+) certification, an international security standard for IT security products. The EAL4+ is the highest security standard for commercial products and indicates that the products are rigorously engineered to a high degree of quality, noted a company press release issued on Feb. 8.
Lockheed Martin and Cleversafe form big data alliance for secure, distributed storage
Lockheed Martin Corp. and Cleversafe, Inc. have formed a new technology alliance that will facilitate collaboration between the two companies to support a new level of storage capacity beyond traditional capabilities.
These secure, distributed storage Cloud offerings will enhance the performance of active archive, data security, still imagery, full motion video (FMV), SharePoint storage enhancement and distributed computing.
HSI Nogales special agent pleads guilty to leaking classified documents
Nogales POE
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agent pleaded guilty to all 21 counts accusing her of leaking sensitive government information to relatives involved in drug trafficking.
According to a statement by the FBI on Jan. 6, Jovana Deas, 33, of Rio Rico, AZ, admitted to abusing her position as an HSI special agent to illegally obtain and disseminate government documents classified as "Official Use Only."
New cyber-readiness report places Finland, Israel and Sweden ahead of the United States
McAfee and the Security & Defence Agenda, a Brussels-based security and defense policy forum, revealed on Jan. 30 the findings from a new report, Cyber-security: The Vexed Question of Global Rules, that paints a global snapshot of current thinking about the cyber-threat, identifies measures that should be taken to defend against them, and assesses the way ahead.
DHS revs up information sharing and international efforts
Secretary Napolitano
The Department of Homeland Security has focused not only on domestic security in the last year, but also on becoming an international force in securing trade, and it will push those efforts forward in 2012, said Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in her second “State of America’s Homeland Security” address
Secret Service will acquire hardware to forensically image hard drives
The U.S. Secret Service is planning to procure dozens of UltraKits, which contain a complete family of UltraBlock hardware “write blockers,” along with adapters and connectors, which can be used to acquire a forensically sound image of virtually any hard drive or storage device.
GAO dismisses Meadowgate’s protest of computer equipment contract by TSA
Meadowgate Technologies, LLC, of Trenton, NJ, tried to sell desktop and tablet computers to TSA, but was beaten by a competitor, NCS Technologies Incorporated, of Gainesville, VA. After Meadowgate protested TSA’s award to its rival, arguing that the agency’s evaluation of NCS’s past performance was improper, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reviewed the matter and ultimately threw out Meadowgate’s protest.
