Guide to Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy—a resource for policymakers to respond to cybersecurity challenges

Nations from every corner of the world are increasingly leveraging digital transformation to grow their economies and empower businesses to improve services, including vital services provided by critical infrastructures. This adoption of new information communications technologies ICT has...

Howard Schmidt's Legacy of Service Remembered

Howard Schmidt, one of the security industry’s groundbreaking public policy mavens who served as the top White House cybersecurity advisor under two presidents, died on Thursday. He was 67. Schmidt’s legacy stretches from the private sector, where he was CISO at Microsoft and eBay, to a lengthy...

White House: Internet Not Borderless, but Lacking Interior

WASHINGTON D.C. – In an afternoon keynote address at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit yesterday, Michael Daniel, a special assistant to the president and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, refuted the common sentiment that the Internet is difficult to defend because it is borderless. To th...

Cybersecurity Executive Order Short on Action, Long on Voluntary Initiatives

The executive order that President Barack Obama signed yesterday in advance of his State of the Union Address contains a lot of provisions for information sharing on attacks and threats on critical infrastructure, and also calls for the development of a framework to reduce cybersecurity risks in...

White House Security Czar Howard Schmidt Retiring

Howard Schmidt, the top White House information security adviser, is retiring after more than two years on the job and several decades in security both in government and private industry. Schmidt is in his second stint as the White House security chief and he’s leaving at a time when cybersecurit...

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism Today President Obama's release National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which was presented by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in a speech at SAIS named "Ensuring al-Qa'ida's Demise...

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism

President Obama release National Strategy for Counter terrorism Today President Obama's release National Strategy for Counterterrorism, which was presented by John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism in a speech at SAIS named "Ensuring al-Qa'ida's Demise...

White House Cyber-Security Strategy Could Guard Health Care Payments !

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace aims to help consumers pay for services such as health care more securely and avoid identity theft. Recent guidelines issued by the White House on cyber-security could provide an impetus for secure online bill paying in health care,...

What If Bill Gates Never Wrote the Trustworthy Computing Memo?

The security industry has undergone massive changes in the last 15 years, and in some cases it’s hard to imagine what things would be like had these events not taken place. Think of a world in which Google focuses on security and privacy and Microsoft never started Trustworthy Computing, and you...

Short list emerges for cybersecurity czar job

The first reports of the short list for the job of federal cybersecurity coordinator are beginning to trickle out, and while some of the names are all too familiar, many others are quite new to the national scene. The most well-known name on the list, as reported by Reuters, is that of Scott...

Obama cybersecurity plan has a familiar ring

President Obama on Friday presented his long-awaited cybersecurity plan, which included the establishment of a new White House office headed by a cybersecurity “coordinator” who would oversee and advise Obama on this issue. He also proposed hiring a separate official dedicated to privacy and civi...

Battle brewing over cybersecurity in Washington

There is a good old-fashioned backroom brawl shaping up in Washington over the cybersecurity issue, and the forces are aligning in some interesting ways on a variety of different sides of the debate. The latest installment in this long-running drama involves not just the fight over which, if any,...