US Agency Releases Cybersecurity education Plan


US Agency Releases Cyber-education Plan
PCWorld
By Grant Gross, IDG News The US government will work to develop an "unrivaled" cybersecurityworkforce and broaden the nation's pool of skilled cyberworkers under a draft cybersecurityeducation plan released Friday by a US agency. ...
South Korea outlines cyber security strategy
FutureGov Magazine
By Adrienne Valdez | 13 August 2011 The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) has recently announced a national cyber security strategy, established with the joint effort of fifteen government agencies. According to KCC, Cyberspace will be considered ...
Department of Internet Defense
Washington Post
By David Ignatius, “Cybersecurity” is one of those hot topics that has launched a thousand seminars and strategy papers without producing much in the way of policy. But that's beginning to change, in one of 2011's most important but least noted ...
Administration issues far-reaching plan for building cyber workforce
Nextgov
By Aliya Sternstein 08/12/2011 The Obama administration on Friday released the first-ever roadmap for building a US cybersecurity workforce and testing the government's success at raising public awareness of computer threats. ...
Cyber warfare: teens fighting for national security
Channel 4 News
Channel 4 News has been granted unprecedented access to the cyber security firm Qinetiq and spoken to the teenagers who are helping protect the UK Government from cyber attacks. Formerly an elite unit in the Ministry of Defence, the now privatised ...
NIST Issues Draft of Cyber Ed Initiative
GovInfoSecurity.com
The National Institute of Standards and Technology issued on Friday a draft of Building a Digital Nation, a strategic plan that outlines the mission, vision and goals of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, known by the acronym NICE....
Tibetan Exiles Accuse Chinese of Cyber-Attacks
Voice of America
Activist Tibetan exiles are stepping up efforts to train Tibetans about cyber security. Much of the material is in English, so the first task is translation. Lobsang Gyatso teaches Tibetans who plan to re-enter Chinese-controlled areas about Tor, ...
Boeing Spends $4.4 Million on 2Q Lobbying
ABC News
Boeing has interests ranging from commercial aviation to defense, space, and more recently, cyber security. It lobbied on issues including upgrading technology at the Federal Aviation Administration, funding for NASA and the space station, ...
UK Wants to Clamp Down on Social Media During Unrest
IT Business Edge (blog)
When US legislators introduced what became known as an "Internet Kill Switch" bill, critics accused them of attempting to give the president too much power in the event of a "cyber-securityemergency." The second time they introduced the bill, ...
SIA Legislative Update
SecurityInfoWatch
Some of the standards relate to physical security and others do not, but affected facilities have to ensure adequate perimeter security, monitoring and sometimes cyber security. DHS may offer guidance, but it is really up to the facility what systems ...
MATC wins a $50000 grant from Regents
Manhattan Mercury
The money will go toward the school's cyber-security program, which has 40 students, according to college president Rob Edleston. The college competed against two other technical colleges and eight more community colleges to secure the grant. ...
10-Q: PARADIGM HOLDINGS, INC
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
("PSC"), which was incorporated in 1996 to deliver IT services to federal agencies, Trinity Information Management Services ("Trinity"), which was acquired on April 9, 2007 to deliver cybersecuritysolutions into the national security marketplace and ...
VP Binay off to US for Harvard security course
GMANews.TV
“For this year, NIS will tackle security issues in South Asia, Africa, South East Asia and the Arab regions, US President Barack Obama's foreign policy, the US military and strategy security issues, nuclear terrorism, cyber security, counter terrorism, ...
Track: Paul Nevado eager to run at University of Detroit Mercy
Port Huron Times Herald
He's also eager to take classes in U of D's cyber security program. "It's an accelerated program," he said. "I want to work for the government. The other schools I considered didn't have it." Nevado will report to U of D on Aug. 28 and when he does, ...
BART's Interference In Subway Protests, A Step In The Wrong Direction For ...
TechCrunch
As Marvin Ammori, an oft-cited lawyer and expert in internet law, media law, freedom of speech, andcybersecurity, pointed out in an insightful and well-written post, though many have been up in arms over BARTgate being a prime example of a glaring ...
Social media and the London riots: The good and the ugly
Memeburn
That's why they've been preferring to use it,” said Alastair Paterson, chief executive ofcyber-security firm Digital Shadows. In the hours following the first round of rioting in Tottenham, the hashtag #riotcleanup began to emerge on Twitter. ...
Can Data Breaches Kill?
Dark Reading
Incidents like this and the Anonymous attacks show that public safety organizations need to spend as much attention to cybersecurity as they do to physical security; at this point, too much information is accessible over networks to ignore the risk. ...
Readout of Secretary Napolitano's Visit to New Orleans
IEWY News
On Tuesday, August 9, Secretary Napolitano will travel to Bossier City, Louisiana where she will join Senator Landrieu at the Cyber Innovation Center to discuss the Department's ongoing initiatives to enhance cyber security by promoting innovation and ...
Khazakh Pres. calls on CSTO''s leaders to focus on events in Mideast. N.Africa
Kuwait News Agency
... Astana, Nazarbayev said the summiteers should also focus on the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan, as well as natural disasters, international terrorism, draf trafficking and cyber security, Itar-tass news agency reported. ...
US agency releases cyber-education plan
Australian Techworld
The US government will work to develop an "unrivaled" cybersecurity workforce and broaden the nation's pool of skilled cyberworkers under a draft cybersecurity education plan released Friday by a US agency. The goal of the National Initiative for ..
Researcher tracks illegal online pharmacies
Newsroom America
By Peter Fowler at 3:40 pm Eastern (Newsroom America) -- A growing number of illegal online pharmacies are flooding the web trying to sell dangerous unauthorized prescriptions, according to a new report from cybersecurity experts at Carnegie Mellon ...

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