Cyber security investments are cost effective says comptroller


Cyber security investments are cost effective says comptroller
EmpireStateNews.net
NEW YORK - State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli reminded local governments and school districts that they can save money and trouble by investing in cyber security. DiNapoli released a report on Information Technology (IT) security that detailed local ...
Big Corporation Workers are Poorly Trained in Cyber Security, say Hackers
TMC Net
By now, one would think that large companies must have learned their lessons and must be paying more attention to cyber security, wrote Reuters reporter Jim Finkle, But, in reality, that is not the case, wrote Finkle. Hackers taking part in a DEF CON ...
New Cyber Security and ISO27001 Compliance Toolkit
EIN News (press release)
America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity." Improving cyber security for the American people, the Nation's critical infrastructure, and the Federal Government's own networks and computers is the US Government's ...
Cybersecurity or Censorship? The Choice Is Ours
Internet Evolution
The Cybersecurity and Internet Freedom Act would enable the Executive Branch of the United States to limit citizens' access to Internet resources in the name of national security. This same power could be used in the way it was by Egyptian President ...
EC-Council's Global CyberLympics Endorsed by UN Cybersecurity Arm
TMC Net
The championship is endorsed by the United Nations cybersecurity executing arm and will be held across six continents this September. Fostering better cooperation and communication oncybersecurity issues among countries is the mission behind the games ...
Closing the cyber security skills gaps must start in the classroom
ITworld.com
If you think about Internet security at all, think about this: you've probably been hacked. According to a recent Ponemon Institute study, 73 percent of companies have been successfully attacked through their Web applications in the last 24 months, ...
InfraGard's New York City Alliance and Coalfire Partner to Host Cyber Defense ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The event will focus on recent developments in cyber crime and fraud, legal and regulatory issues affecting cyber security, insider cyber threats to corporations, and cloud security. "In the past several months we have heard about data breaches almost ...
State Department, Auditors Clash On IT Security Monitoring
InformationWeek
By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek The federal government's new regime for cybersecuritycompliance, which leans heavily on continuous monitoring of IT system security, was supposed to cut back on the arduous and unnecessary paperwork that has ...
Ministry of Unification's site attacked by malware
JoongAng Daily
Unidentified hackers targeted the ministry's Web site through malware, or malicious software, planted in a lawmaker's aide's e-mail, said Kim Young-pil, an official at the ministry's cybersecurity center. He said the center asked the aide to either ...
Unification Ministry targeted in cyber attack
The Korea Herald
Believing North Korea is operating a special computer-hacking military unit to collect secret information, Seoul has recently outlined a nationwide cyber security policy to cope with further attacks by Pyongyang and others. In recent years, North Korea ...
Actiance to Speak During 7th Annual GFIRST National Conference
Marketwire (press release)
... will participate at the 2011 GFIRST conference, which helps public and private sector leaders familiar with the fundamentals of cyber security and incident response understand the movement in today's fast-changing, Internet-driven world. ...
Indian Government Wants to Monitor Social Networks
Tech2
The Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology, Milind Deora, wrote in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha dealing with security issues arising from the social networks, that monitoring the sites would strengthen cyber security ...
New Cyber Security and ISO27001 Compliance Toolkit
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White Oak Technologies Taps Michael Fox to Head Corporate Strategy and ...
PR Newswire (press release)
WOTI, which specializes in identity resolution, cyber security and data analytics, was founded in 1996. In November 2010, Arlington Capital Partners invested in the firm through a portfolio company, Data Technologies & Analytics LLC (DTA). ...
Feds Turn To Hackers To Defend Nation In Cyberspace
AlterNet
They were on an urgent mission: to try to end the severe shortage of cybersecurity experts working for the federal government. As cyber attacks continue to increase in both number and scale, the government has launched a massive recruiting effort to ...
Sypris Reports Second Quarter Results
MarketWatch (press release)
For the long-term, we will continue to invest in R&D as we focus on delivering solutions for our nation's rapidly expanding cyber security needs. The impact of these new products and technologies is expected to contribute to the Company's financial ...
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding CEO Discusses F1Q12 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
And you understand how effective cyber security is executed. In order to provide defense, you really have to understand what the offense is all about. I mean you really don't know how to setup the defense unless you know what the heck in offense is ...
Pollenware Chooses Tervela to Stream Real-Time Data, Accelerate Time-to-Market
PR Newswire (press release)
... performance and cost efficiency of infrastructures that require high speed, no-loss movement of data across complex and demanding business environments such as global trading, telecommunications, cyber security, and new media. ...
One year ago, I got grilled by the Secret Service
CSO (blog)
Somewhere in the conversation, I mentioned that I know Howard Schmidt, President Obama'scybersecurity coordinator. The officers wanted to know who I had been talking to or texting on my BlackBerry that morning, and Schmidt was one of them. ...
New Federal CIO suggests he'll pursue Kundra's plans
Government Health IT
“We understand that Steven VanRoekel plans to stay the course on cloud, data center consolidation,cyber security, transparency, and mobility initiatives.” VanRoekel, indeed, suggested last week that he intends to carry forth with Kundra's plan. ...
Q1 Labs and the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT) Commit to ...
MarketWatch (press release)
We look holistically at cyber security to develop groundbreaking security technologies and we act as an honest broker in the industry, bringing together industry leaders, government policy makers and the best of academia," said Stephen Wray, ...
Singapore, Malaysia Should Capitalise On Competencies For Greater Synergy
Bernama
On the amicable resolution of the 20-year dispute over Malayan Railway land in Singapore, Shivaji said it was a positive development together with other recent cooperation arrangements such as incyber security. He said greater trust and cooperation ...
Guest Post: Modernizing the Grid
Greentech Media (blog)
Several complex, short-term technical challenges face utilities, electric services firms and technology suppliers in developing a smarter grid, including Ultra-Large Systems Architecture, cyber securityand distributed intelligence. ...
Illegal aliens infiltrate chemical facilities in spite of security concerns
Examiner.com
Dan Lungren (R-CA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies, and is co-sponsored by Full Committee Chairman Peter T. King (R-NY) and 8 other Committee Members. Chairman King said after the ...
Harris' Public Safety LTE Solution Operational in the 700 MHz Public Safety ...
TMC Net
The solution is also is designed to meet the emerging FCC (News - Alert) cyber security and critical infrastructure survivability requirements, and will fully support the evolving technical framework for the FCC's Emergency Response Interoperability ...
Iran to US, Israel: Bring On the Cyber War
KGO-AM
Neither US nor Israeli officials publicly took credit for the cyber attack, but it was reportedly referenced in a video montage of "accomplishments" by an outgoing Israeli general, and severalcyber security experts -- including American government ...
Hackers take $1B a year, and banks blame their clients
Bend Bulletin
I., who chaired a Select Committee on Intelligence task force on US cyber-security in 2010. Organized criminal gangs, operating mostly out of Eastern Europe, target small companies, school districts and local governments that maintain fat commercial ...
A fresh approach to data management and transfer
Control Engineering Website
However it is important to understand that many of the recent cyber security offerings in the automation arena have concentrated on dealing with the problem rather than exploring how to minimise the problem happening in the first place! ...
Boeing, Siemens Energize Via Energy Deal
TheStreet.com
"We needed a partner that had the ability to understand even more [than us] how the government operated [and] how to integrate on a large scale [and] has an enterprise approach to cyber-security. We wanted a partner who lived in that domain within DOD....
Gitex Shopper set to tap predicted $3.4bn UAE consumer electronics market in 2011
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
CyberSecurity @ Gitex edutainment will offer presentations on cybercrime awareness and how to avoid falling into traps including web phishing site, mobile phones credit card scanning and cloning, and identity theft among many more.
Predictive Analytics World for Government Features Topics on Reducing Fraud ...
Benzinga
Agenda topics cover fraud detection, improper payment detection, workforce analytics, law enforcement / crime prevention, claims processing, threat detection / homeland security, cyber security, food safety, grants management, hotspot detection, ...
Recently Asked Questions
Education Times
However, you can become a security analyst without having professional training/ certification in information / cyber security. Passion for IT is easily fulfilled since all workplaces require strong IT skills for effective performance, ...
Security Experts Not Surprised by Hacking of 70 Law Enforcement Websites
Government Technology
Last year during the WikiLeaks scandal, AntiSec unsuccessfully tried to attack Amazon.com. And Anonymous and LulzSec already created a slew of cyber-security issues this year after attacking corporate giants Sony and Apple as well as the FBI.
S&P to face withering backlash, investigations likely?
FierceFinance
We saw this recently with McAfee's big study on cybersecurity, which was released just ahead of a major conference. S&P had reasons to inject itself into the most politically heated battle the year. Its reputation has been decimated by the financial ...
IBM files protest over VA's $12B T4 contract
Washington Technology
The services and products may include program planning and management, systems and software engineering, cybersecurity, operation and maintenance, and support to facilities. Alice Lipowicz is a staff writer covering government 2.0, homeland security ...
Rule18 Email Security and Privacy Solution Wins Five-Star Rating in SC ...
Your-Story.org (press release)
SECNAP Network Security develops information technology and cybersecurity solutions that enable business to be conducted securely on the Internet, leveraging an Integrated Security Management (ISM) platform to deliver award-winning network security, ...
Entrust IdentityGuard Named a Finalist in 2011 TechTarget "Readers' Choice ...
MarketWatch (press release)
#Cybersecurity TechTarget's SearchSecurity.com attracts more than 1 million IT security pros to the site for the information they require to keep their corporate data, systems, and assets secure. Tightly integrated with industry-leading Information ...
On guard for cyberspace
Vancouver Sun
In late 2010, Public Safety Canada presented Canada's national cybersecurity strategy. The RCMP plays a major role with its Critical Infrastructure Criminal Intelligence section and the Cyber Crime Fusion Centre. It must be said, however, that actions ...
Cyber Security: Time for a Critical Discussion | Tech the Future
By Tessel Renzenbrink
A string of internet security breaches over the last year have brought the discussion about cyber security to the public domain. At the Aspen Security Forum organized by the Aspen Institute, three security experts discussed the future ...
Tech the Future
Prophecies of Doom & the Politics of Fear in Cybersecurity Debates
By Adam Thierer
Mark Thompson has a new essay up over at Time on “Cyber War Worrywarts” in which he argues that in debates about cybersecurity, “the ratio of scaremongers to calm logic [is] currently about a 2-to-1 edge in favor of the.
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