Cyberdefense


Addressing the challenge of data for all, but securely

Emerging threats and new devices combine to create a complex and rapidly changing landscape for storage security.

Lockheed, Fixmo team on secure authentication for mobile devices

Defense giant Lockheed Martin and mobile risk management (MRM) provider Fixmo have collaborated to bring to market secure authentication technologies for consumer-grade mobile devices.

Independent analysis of DOD authorization act offers insight on cybersecurity and Big Data

The 2013 National Defense Authorization Act requires the Defense Department to make a number of concrete changes related to IT acquisition, cybersecurity, and network operations and software that will change the way the department does business in the years ahead.

Like it or not, controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill is back

Two members of the House Intelligence Committee on Feb. 13 reintroduced their Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which passed the House of Representatives last year but failed to make it through the Senate.

Obama signs executive order to boost critical infrastructure security

President Obama has signed an executive order that seeks to better protect the nation's critical infrastructure from cyber intrusions through increased information sharing and the joint development and implementation of a framework of shared cybersecurity practices between government and industry.

Lockheed's cyber services available on GSA products list

Lockheed Martin’s cross-domain cyber solutions, which allow data to be exchanged across all security enclaves by users with different levels of security clearance, are now available on the General Services Administration schedule of products and services.

Army RDECOM wants to know what you know on cyber

The Army's research arm has issued an RFI seeking information from industry and academia about emerging and possible future cyber techologies that the service will use to craft cyber strategy and technology investment plans for the next several decades.

All future attacks on US will include cyber element, says Panetta

Twenty-first century technology makes cyberattacks a primary threat to U.S. national security and because of this future military attacks against the United States will include a cyber element, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Feb. 6.

U.S. reserves the right to launch pre-emptive cyber strikes in proposed rules

U.S. President Barack Obama would have the authority to order a pre-emptive strike if the United States detects credible evidence of a major cyberattack being prepared against the nation from overseas under new policy being developed by the administration.

Cybersecurity poses 'continued key challenge' for US, Hagel says

Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) has told the Senate Armed Services Committee in a 112-page document responding to a list of questions from the committee that he believes cyberattack deterrence remains a "continued key challenge" for the nation.

Webcast

  • Improving Performance Management and Project Control to Meet Cost/Schedule Milestones in DoD Procurement

    It can be nearly impossible to build annual budgets that consider forecasted project and program work plans along with detailed cost data, particularly when attempting to reconcile actual and projected program costs with actual schedule performance. In this webcast, a defense IT program manager will share best practices and hard-won lessons aligning critical data on project performance, cost systems and schedules for truly big picture program management insight. Read more