Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke is slated to be appointed Secretary of Commerce:
Experience in technology policy will also be important for the next commerce secretary, Cantwell said, since he will have to appoint the next director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, oversee the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and provide leadership on [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘cybersecurity’
February 25, 2009
Another hub in the cybersecurity Network
February 24, 2009
Darwinian View to Cybersecurity
Interesting….
Take A Darwinian Approach To A Dangerous World: Ecologist Preaches ‘Natural’ Security For Homeland Defense
ScienceDaily (2009-02-23) — Global society is undergoing rapid political and socioeconomic changes, to which our security measures must adapt. Fortunately, we’re surrounded by millions of examples of security measures from nature that do just that.
February 23, 2009
CyberSecurity Updates
Univ Florida – breach – 97,000 id’s
Norton unveils product to help parents manage children’s access to the web. Has the market done what Government could not?
Citing a Rochester Institute of Technology study that found a huge gap between the percentage of parents versus children who report no online supervision, Symantec says that Online Family is [...]
February 12, 2009
Cyber Threats – A known surprise
Evidently, according to a Defense Science Board study, the Pentagon needs to address institutional change to deal with the new threat environment. Interesting categorization of surpises as “surprise” surprises and “known” surprisies.
According to this report:
Among the “known surprises” are threats in the cyber realm, space and nuclear regimes. The study’s authors conclude that the US [...]
January 30, 2009
Intelligence ln Sentiment
How much easier would it be to manage risk in an organization if you were able to divine the mood of the staff? Robert Scoble has this interesting comment from his talk with
**Facebook is, he told me, studying “sentiment” behavior. It hasn’t yet used that research in its public service yet, but is looking to [...]
January 26, 2009
Cybersecurity – Patriotism doesn’t always defend
Securityfix presents interesting analysis concerning conficker — seems the creators don’t mind soiling their native lands.
According to an analysis by Microsoft engineers, the original version of the Downadup (a.k.a. “Conficker”) worm will quit the installation process if the malware detects the host system is configured with a Ukrainian keyboard layout. However, the latest variant has [...]
December 9, 2008
Cybersecurity – Market Failure or Public Values Failure or both?
The Center for Strategic and International Studies is delivering a report, “Securing CyberSpace for the 44th President,” which notes, among other things, :
“We believe that cyberspace cannot be secured without regulation,”
The report, which offers guidance to the Obama administration, is a strong indictment of government and private industry efforts to secure cyberspace to date. “The [...]
