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ISC West Conference 2013: Pan Kamal, AlertEnterprise
Pan Kamal, VP of Marketing for Alert Enterprise, a security software company headquartered in Fremont, CA, explains in his opening remarks that he is going to describe Alert Enterprise’s award-...
GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: RedSeal Networks, Allan Thompson, Executive VP Global Sales and Business Development
RedSeal Networks is both a Sponsor of the 2012 Awards Program and recipient of a Winner’s trophy in the IT Security Category of “Best Continuous Monitoring Solution”. According to Allan Thompson,...
GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Steven Ringelberg, COO, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Vanguard Security Professionals has been a multiple Winner and Finalist in previous GSN Awards Programs and was named Winner in the 2012 category of “Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention Solution” and...
GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Brivo, Inc, John Szczygiel, Executive VP Sales and Marketing
John Szczygiel describes Brivo, Winner of the 2012 Award for “Best Integrated System for HSPD-12/FIPS 201 Compliance” for the second year in a row, as a cloud company that provides hosted subscriber...
GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Jody Mack, Director Business Development, Vanguard Integrity Professionals
Jody Mack provides a thumbnail description of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, a Sponsor of the 2012 GSN Awards Program as well as a Winner in the 2012 IT security category of “Best Intrusion...
GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Ken Ammon, Chief Strategist, Xceedium Corporation
Xceedium Corporation garnered its second GSN awards trophy for the entry of its Xsuite solution in the “Best Privileged Access Management” category of the 2012 Awards Program.  Ken Ammon, Chief...
ASIS 2012: John Bartolac, Manager Government Programs, Axis Communications
John Bartolac relates that Axis invented the first IP Video camera in 1996 and is now the world’s largest provider of IP Video products, releasing about 30 products per year. In the government world...
2012 ISC West Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Joe McDonald, Board of Directors Member, ASIS International
Joe McDonald states that ASIS International, which has deep roots in federal government and law enforcement, has had a banner year in which membership increased from 37,000 to 38,000, with...
GSN 2011 Awards Dinner Winners and Sponsors: Bill Conner, President and CEO, Entrust, Inc:
Entrust, Inc is an identity-based security company that focuses on government and enterprises, according to Bill Conner. The company had a big night at GSN’s 2011 Awards Program, being named Winner...
GSN 2011 Award Winners and Sponsor Interviews: Mike Potts, CEO, Lancope, Inc
Company CEO Mike Potts talked with GSN on November 14th shortly after Lancope, Inc was awarded the Winner’s Trophy for its StealthWatch product in the IT category of “Best Network Security/Enterprise...
ASIS 2011: Mark Desmarais, Clear View Systems Product Manager, Raytheon Corporation
Mark Desmarais discusses Raytheon’s new “Security and Transportation Systems” business, recently created in a restructuring instituted by Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems president, Dan Crowley....
ISC West 2011: Jasvir Gill, Founder/CEO, Alert Enterprise
Alert Enterprise is a security software company documenting all standards and providing insider threat management, prevention of suspicious activity and protection against acts of sabotage and...
RSA 2011: Patrick Bedwell, VP Product Development, Fortinet, Inc
Fortinet pioneered the concept of consolidating multiple security technologies in a single device, according to Patrick Bedwell. The simple firewall later evolved into a complex gateway incorporating...
RSA 2011: Derek Manky, Senior Security Strategist, Fortinet, Inc
As Senior Security Strategist, Derek Manky says his team’s job at Fortinet is to study the latest threats in cybersecurity. This entails finding threats, developing signatures, reverse engineering...

News

Cyber criminals leverage ICE cyber crimes unit
Mon, 2013-02-18 09:25 AM
Online scammers have again taken to using the name of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Cyber Crimes Center (IC3) to extort money from unsuspecting victims online. ICE issued a scam alert on Feb...
Accused occasionally of spying on U.S., China’s Huawei praises Obama’s new executive order on ‘cyber-sharing’
Fri, 2013-02-15 02:40 PM

John Suffolk,
of Huawei
President Obama’s recent executive order related to enhancing the cyber security at the nation’s critical infrastructure sites won applause from a strange corner of cyberspace on Feb. 15, when Huawei...
GAO goes a little lighter on DHS criticism in high-risk report
Fri, 2013-02-15 09:25 AM

Carper, Issa
release report
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) lightened up a bit on its criticism of DHS’s management in its report aimed at calling attention to high-risk areas in government agencies, but still found...
NIST begins cyber security initiative under White House plan
Wed, 2013-02-13 02:45 PM

Commerce Dept.'s
Rebecca Blank
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Feb. 13 began its work to help establish the common, voluntary framework that will support critical infrastructure’s cyber security under...
Agency leaders explain White House executive order on cyber security
Wed, 2013-02-13 02:28 PM

White House's

Michael Daniel
Leaders with expertise in cyber security from private industry, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and other agencies packed an auditorium at...
New SANS survey of SCADA operators reveal serious flaws in security precautions
Tue, 2013-02-12 02:52 PM

Diagram of SCADA
system for utility
According to a survey of nearly 700 SCADA and other control system operators, awareness of risk is high, while protections are lagging. "Control system cyber assets are vulnerable, threats are...
White House cyber security orders could be imminent
Tue, 2013-02-12 02:26 PM
The White House could be on the verge of announcing its much-anticipated executive order on cyber security measures on Feb. 13. An email notice from the Department of Homeland Security on Feb. 12...
Jihadist Web presence in flux as social media rises with limited impact
Fri, 2013-02-08 08:31 AM
While social media like Twitter is on the rise among younger Islamists, it ultimately won’t supplant more traditional online Web forums, according to a new study. The West, said the study, can take...
White House sets up working group to address online radicalization
Thu, 2013-02-07 09:35 AM
The White House is moving to blunt increasing use of the Internet by extremist groups, including Al Qaeda, to recruit new members and instigate mayhem with a program aimed at increasing exchange of...
NOAA prepares to purchase Encase forensic tool by Guidance Software
Mon, 2013-02-04 12:49 PM
The cyber security division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is planning to procure Encase Enterprise forensic software from Guidance Software, of Pasadena, CA, to help...
TSA was largest awarder and Computer Sciences Corp. was biggest receiver of DHS service contracts in FY2012
Fri, 2013-02-01 12:17 PM
DHS spent about $10.3 billion in service contracts during fiscal year 2012, including awards from TSA to separate vendors that accounted for four of the five largest individual contracts, and awards...
Quantum Secure appoints John Skowronski as vice president of global sales
Wed, 2013-01-30 01:07 PM

John Skowronski
Quantum Secure, a provider of enterprise software that manages and streamlines security identities, compliance and analytics across disparate physical security systems, has appointed John Skowronski...

Company News

GammaTech debuts rugged U12Ci notebook for public safety

GammaTech Computer Corp., a manufacturer and supplier of notebook and tablet computers, has added a new model to its cost-effective, high-performance rugged Durabook line. The notebook, U12Ci, quickly and easily transforms into a tablet with Ultrabook performance in a rugged platform for mission critical applications. Featuring Intel's new Ivy Bridge platform, it is designed to meet the unique needs of today's public safety professionals.

BeyondTrust buys eEye Digital Security, a vulnerability management company

BeyondTrust, a provider of privilege delegation and authorization management solutions, announced on May 9 that it has acquired eEye Digital Security, a well-respected vulnerability management solution provider. Together the companies will offer a comprehensive solution for intelligent, context-driven security and compliance.

Motorola Solutions addresses BYOD confusion with new RhoMobile Suite

Motorola Solutions, Inc. has introduced what it calls its RhoMobile Suite in an effort to address some of the confusion, complexity and costs associated with the emerging Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend.

Passware rolls out instant decryption of MS Office 2010 documents

Password recovery, decryption and electronic evidence discovery software provider Passware, Inc., has released its Passware Kit Forensic v11.7, that includes live memory analysis and subsequent decryption of MS Word or Excel 2007-2010 files.

In addition, the new version instantly decrypts PGP Whole Disk Encrypted volumes and recovers passwords for Apple disk images, said the company.

USAF again chooses Application Security Inc.’s DbProtect and AppDetectivePro

Application Security, Inc. (AppSecInc), a provider of database security solutions, announced on May 3 that it will once again be an integral member of the elite multi-vendor security team selected to provide best-of-breed solutions for the U.S. Air Force’s Software Assurance Center of Excellence (ASACoE).

The Center was created to establish application security best practices across all Air Force departments.

TechAmerica Foundation forms commission on ‘Big Data’

The TechAmerica Foundation has formed an expert commission on the emerging issue of “Big Data” is in the process of accepting applications for commissioners.

Salient Federal Solutions uses Cloudarray storage gateway

Salient Federal Solutions, a provider of information technology, engineering, and intelligence analytic services to agencies in the intelligence, defense, homeland security and cyber domains, has implemented the TwinStrata, Inc.’s CloudArray storage gateway with Veeam Backup & Replication software for cloud-based backup and disaster recovery.

Locatis named DHS assistant secretary for cyber security and communications

DHS appointed Michael Locatis III as the new assistant secretary for cyber security and communications (CS&C) at the National Protection and Programs Directorate.

The appointment was announced on April 19 on the DHS Web page by Mark Weatherford, deputy under secretary for cyber security. Locatis replaces Greg Schaffer as assistant secretary for CS&C. Bobbie Stempfley, who has served as interim as acting assistant secretary, will return to her role as deputy assistant secretary, according to Weatherford.

Commentary and Opinions

Achieving unified security management in a government organization

Many local governments struggle to find a highly effective security solution they can depend on. The needs of a government organization are different from corporate or home users, and the security tools they implement must reflect their specific needs. With shrinking budgets and limited IT resources, security products must be simple and cost-effective, without sacrificing performance or functionality.

Digital government and the BYOD surge

In today’s Information Technology (IT) landscape, one thing is glaringly obvious: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the “consumerization” of IT are having an enormous impact on IT security. For government agencies, security concerns associated with employees bringing personal devices on and off of agency networks and accessing straightforward day-to-day business or the most highly-classified information are keeping agency IT managers and OMB policy makers up at night.

Platform comes to Washington

We all want our government to be better. We want more services, better services, and we want it delivered more affordably. Politicians come and go, policies change and new budgets are tabled, but in the end we are left with a haunting and largely unanswerable question: Did our representatives make things better or worse than they were before?

Sharing security best practices among federal agencies: The time has come

There is no shortage of attention being paid to the need for enhanced information security by the federal government, and for better sharing of information that may affect national security.

New focus on IT security and new legislation could help prevent major events with utility companies

2011 may have forever changed the way we think about the security of networks and systems. Following a year many are calling the “year of the hack,” security professionals have fundamentally changed their outlook when it comes to the threat of a network breach. Whereas previously, many considered a breach unlikely and more of an “if” scenario, many have shifted to a mindset of “when.” 

 

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GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Jody Mack, Director Business Development, Vanguard Integrity Professionals

Jody Mack provides a thumbnail description of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, a Sponsor of the 2012 GSN Awards Program as well as a Winner in the 2012 IT security category of “Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention Solution” and 2012 Finalist in the categories of “Best ID Management Platform” and “Best Compliance/Vulnerability Assessment Solution”, not to mention a multiple Winner and Finalist in prior GSN Awards Programs.

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Ken Ammon, Chief Strategist, Xceedium Corporation

Xceedium Corporation garnered its second GSN awards trophy for the entry of its Xsuite solution in the “Best Privileged Access Management” category of the 2012 Awards Program.  Ken Ammon, Chief Strategist for the company, describes how privileged access management has become increasingly important as physical and logical access have merged, and the government, through HSPD-12, has required that the PIV smart card, historically used for physical access now must be used for logical access as well.

ASIS 2012: John Bartolac, Manager Government Programs, Axis Communications

John Bartolac relates that Axis invented the first IP Video camera in 1996 and is now the world’s largest provider of IP Video products, releasing about 30 products per year. In the government world, there is a higher threat level, requiring a very high frame rate with IP Video cameras, which led Axis to produce its Q 60 model that offers up to 1.5 kilometers of viewing.

2012 ISC West Conference, Las Vegas, NV, Joe McDonald, Board of Directors Member, ASIS International

Joe McDonald states that ASIS International, which has deep roots in federal government and law enforcement, has had a banner year in which membership increased from 37,000 to 38,000, with interesting new changes in membership demographics, accompanied by strong growth internationally. As a standards and training organization, ASIS has written and released a new organizational resilience standard and a code of conduct standard for provide security service providers, and is working on a new standard for the Department of Defense.

GSN 2011 Awards Dinner Winners and Sponsors: Bill Conner, President and CEO, Entrust, Inc:

Entrust, Inc is an identity-based security company that focuses on government and enterprises, according to Bill Conner. The company had a big night at GSN’s 2011 Awards Program, being named Winner in “Best Certificate Management Solution”, “Best Smart Card Solution” and “Best Integrated Systems for HSPD-12/FIPS 201 Compliance”.  In the same week, Conner reports, the company also won a four-year GSA contract for PKI capability estimated at $4.5 million.

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Narus, a leader in real-time traffic intelligence for protecting governments, service providers and enterprises, just completed its 2010 annual cyber security survey focusing on the United States. Sponsored jointly with Converge Network Digest and Government Secuirty News, the survey queried a cross-section of security professionals in a variety of industries, and revealed compelling details relating to cyber security concerns, opinons and expectations for protection against attacks. More...

Upcoming Events

Event Details Dates of Event
Critical Security Controls International Summit 2013 Apr 26 - May 2
Secure India @Bangalore 2013 Apr 29 - May 4
Cloud Security Alliance CCSK Certification Training May 6 - 7
SANS Security West 2013 May 9 - 19
SANS Brisbane 2013 May 13 - 18
GovSec Conference & Expo May 14 - 15
CPM East Conference & Expo May 14 - 15
TREXPO - The Law Enforcement Expo May 14 - 15
SANS Austin 2013 May 19 - 24
DoD VA Healthcare Training Forum May 20 - 23
ISSA-LA Fifth Annual Information Security Summit May 21 - 21
Southwest Microwave Seminar May 21 - 21
Southwest Microwave Seminar May 21 - 21
Southwest Microwave Perimeter Defense Seminar May 21 - 21
Southwest Microwave Seminar May 22 - 22
Transport and Logistics of Hazardous Material May 27 - 28
Southwest Microwave Seminar May 28 - 28
Border Management Southwest Summit May 29 - 31
Cyber Security Conference & Expo May 30 - 30
Mobile Device Security Summit 2013 May 30 - Jun 6
Security Analytics Summit 2013 May 30 - Jun 6
Cyber Security Conference & Expo May 30 - 30
Southwest Microwave Seminar May 30 - 30
SANS Malaysia @ MCMC 2013 Jun 3 - 8
2013 SIA Government Summit Jun 4 - 5
Southwest Microwave Seminar Jun 4 - 4
NCT: CBRNe Israel, 4 - 6 June 2013, Tel Aviv Jun 4 - 6
SEL Modern Solutions Power Systems Conference Jun 5 - 7
Mission Command Jun 10 - 12
Cyber Securty Brainstorm Jun 11 - 11
EDGE Summit 2013 Jun 11 - 11
IPv6 Summit 2013 Jun 14 - 16
SANSFIRE 2013 Jun 15 - 22
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 2nd Biosurveillance Symposium Jun 17
Biodetection Technologies 2013 Jun 18 - 19
Southwest Microwave Seminar Jun 18 - 18

Full 2012 Calendar

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Kanguru adds USB device control to its KRMC

Millis, MA-based Kanguru Solutions, a manufacturer of secure IT storage solutions, has announced the ad...

Input forecasts emerging tech markets for state and local governments

Reston, VA-based Input, which specializes in government business, has unveiled new research detailing adoption trends for cloud computing, virtualization, service-oriented archi...

Telvent in DHS SCADA testing project

Rockville, MD-based Telvent reports that it is the first vendor selected to participate in a DHS superv...

Mobile Active Defense launches GeoLocation-based firewall and content filtering for iPhones and smart phones

Mobile Active Defense, LLC (M.A.D.) has announced the release of its patent-pending mobile firewall and contents filtering mecha...

GammaTech debuts newest mobile, rugged Durabook notebook computer

GammaTech Computer Corp., a manufacturer of notebook and tablet computers, has introduced the newest member to its line of cost-effecti...