The sixth annual (ISC) 2 Government Information Security Leadership Awards (GISLAs) will be announced at the GISLA Gala Dinner on Wednesday, October 7, 2009, at the Marriott Crystal Gateway in Crystal City, Arlington, Va.
The Federal CIO Council recommends that agencies' decision to permit social media must involve a collaborative, risk-based decision-making process that requires strong business justifications that identify mission requirements.
Interview with Lisa SwanDeputy DirectorBiometrics Task Force, U.S. Army
American combat forces deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq employ biometrics to tell our friends from insurgents and terrorists. Back home, the Defense Department uses similar fingerprint, iris and facial recognition tools to manage access to...
Interview with David Matthews, Deputy CISO, City of Seattle
David Matthews, like other government information security officials, knows the security problems social networks present. And like his cohorts in municipal, state and federal governments across the nation, Matthews - deputy chief information security...
The Department of Homeland Security is in the process of having a so-called cyber ops wiki developed to facilitate collaboration among staffers at its National Cybersecurity Center locales scattered around the country.
Most state chief information security officers manage information security from the 35,000-foot level, guiding government cybersecurity policy but not being involved in the day-to-day, hands-on implementation of safeguards. And, that presents a big challenging to state CISOs charged with protecting their governments'...
When Congress passes legislation to update FISMA, state chief information security officers like Kansas' Larry Kettlewell will take notice since such reforms will guide states how best to safeguard their information assets.
Government can't safeguard the nation's critical IT infrastructure without establishing a partnership with key private-sector players, New York State's CISO says.
Interview of Will Pelgrin, New York State Director of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure
Money's tight everywhere in this recession, and New York State - like other governments - need to be innovative in how to secure its information assets.
For Will Pelgrin, the director of the state Office of...
Larry Kettlewell is Kansas' chief information security officer, but has no direct authority over individual state agencies' implementation of IT security. But Kettlewell isn't without influence. He chairs the state IT Security Council and heads the Department of Information Services and Communication's Enterprise...
Interview of Will Pelgrin, New York State Director of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Coordination
Will Pelgrin is a CISOs CISO.
Minnesota Chief Information Security Officer Chris Buse describes Pelgrin - director of New York State's Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Coordination - as...
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