A star-studded lineup of top U.S. officials including four cabinet secretaries and three other senior executives announced the new international strategy, emphasizing the importance of cybersecurity to American foreign policy.
"We took our understanding of the tools, tradecraft and techniques used by these malicious actors, and converted it into actionable information that ... would lower their risk to the type of attack we saw at RSA," DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano says.
"Although we have made good progress in creating information sharing entities, to share information securely and efficiently, we have not adequately tackled the critically important issues associated with the timeliness and completeness of information," Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council Chair Jane Carlin...
Altra Federal Credit Union developed a calculated strategy before moving to the cloud -- advice all financial institutions should follow, says Brian Boettcher, VP of IT, who shares his lessons learned.
Philip Reitinger, the top cybersecurity official in the Department of Homeland Security, is on a mission to help create a new, secure computing ecosystem on the Internet.
"We really need to speak the language of business and focus less on the language of IT, and that involves risk management" Iowa CISO Jeff Franklin says. "You really need to target those resources to your most critical systems."
Former New York State CISO Will Pelgrin is expanding his influence over information security nationwide as chief executive officer of the newly revised Center for Internet Security that encompasses MS-ISAC and the U.S. Cyber Challenge.
The Defense Department hopes to prevent future WikiLeaks-style breaches by employing public key infrastructure-based controlled access cards, but that solution won't be fully in place until mid-2013, DoD CIO Teresa Takai says.
Iowa CISO Jeff Franklin explains how collecting real-time information helps the state information security office transition its focus from technology to risk management.
For former New York State CISO Will Pelgrin, mobile devices, insiders and old infrastructure represent the major challenges local and state governments face in 2011 in securing information technology.
This week's top news and views: New NIST guidance focuses on risk management; DHS seeks hundreds of millions of dollars for cybersecurity projects; and former New York State CISO Will Pelgrin on federal-state-local IT collaboration.
The co-chair of the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th President praises the Obama administration's commitment to IT security, but says the administration has much more work to do to develop a comprehensive strategy to combat cyber threats.
In his new post, Chris Painter will head the State Department's global diplomatic engagement on cyber issues and serve as the department's primary liaison with his former boss, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.
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