Streufert's work at the State Department is held as a model on how continuous monitoring and an innovative scoring mechanism can sharply reduce vulnerabilities threatening government IT systems.
Government and business must think creatively to help safeguard America's digital assets, says Melissa Hathaway, the former White House acting senior director for cybersecurity who led President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity policy review.
Hathaway, an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com, cited the innovative...
Tough times require "softer" leaders.
This is the perspective of careers coach Heidi Kraft, who says that today's senior leaders need to focus more on emotional intelligence and other "soft" qualities to be able to better recruit and retain quality employees.
In an exclusive interview, Kraft discusses:
Which...
The public-private consortium that published last February the Consensus Audit Guidelines, or CAG, will issue a new report that will link specific automated tools with its critical security controls.
This application will let Navy personnel post ideas in the form of a blog and invite participation from other users no matter their position within the organization or their geographical location, Carey said.
The leader of the 60-day administration cybersecurity review compares the government's quest to secure IT assets to the Chinese strategy game Wei-Ch'i.
There are varied reasons why information security professionals transition from the public to the private sectors. But it is a common path and it is a move that often proves rewarding for individuals and organizations alike.
The Department of Homeland Security cut the ribbon its new National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, a round-the-clock watch and warning center that DHS says will improve national efforts to address threats and incidents affecting the nation's critical information technology infrastructure.
Gail Mikolich stumbled into a banking career 23 years ago. Today, she is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Northeast Bank, a $400 million community bank based in Minneapolis.
As threats to the nation's IT security evolve, approaches to cybersecurity must confront new realities, leaders of the Federal CIO Council-created taskforce say.
Interview with Myra Gray, Director, U.S. Army Biometrics Task Force
Though fingerprint and iris scans have advantages over passwords and magnetic identity cards as a means to grant access to IT systems, in many instances, the biometric technologies aren't ready to be employed alone, says Myra Gray, director of the...
Ability to identify and respond to threats become more of a challenge in decentralized and especially large IT organizations, says California CISO Mark Weatherford.
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