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- DHS searching laptops at border
- DHS searching laptops at borderAnybody who doesn't want their rights trifled with......should either forward ship their laptop to the destination or carry one of [url=http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-321957-64295-321838-3660143-3660785.html]these[/url]No data. No worries.RE: DHS searching laptops at border"Show me your laptop or iPOd and I'd better be satisfied or it's getting confiscated!"That sounds a...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Discussion threads 2008-08-02
- DHS searching laptops at border
- The Post has the scoop on new DHS policies that allow agents to confiscate laptops at the border. Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing,...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Laptop Computer, Post, Notebooks, Real Estate, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-01
- DHS scraps virtual fence
- DHS scraps virtual fenceVirtual Fence = Fail"The Border Patrol had little input in designing the prototype..."That one line speaks volumes about why the virtual fence prototype didn't do what was needed. I hope Boeing made some money on it, at least. Now, who do we punish?
- Tags: virtual fence, fence, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Discussion threads 2008-04-24
- DHS scraps virtual fence
- On Feb. 22, Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff officially accepted Project 28, Boeing's prototype virtual fence for the Mexico-Arizona border. Less than a week later, Congress' Government Accountability Office said it "did not fully meet user needs and the project's design will not be used as the basis...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Fence, Real Estate, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- DHS to name new CIO
- DHS to name new CIOBrown ShirtsNow maybe we have someone to recruit some Brown Shirts to enforce the rules "for our own good".
- Tags: Brown Shirts, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Discussion threads 2008-04-10
- DHS to name new CIO
- The Department of Homeland Security said this week that it will name Richard Mangogna CIO. Mangogna comes to the DHS from Mason Harriman Group, where he was a senior advisory to the firm's agencies. He also was CIO at JP Morgan Chase, the division head of Business...
- Tags: CIO, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Leadership, Strategy, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-10
- Chertoff promises cybersecurity Manhattan Project
- Seven and a half years after 9/11, the Bush Administration is ready to take cybersecurty seriously. So says Michael Chertoff, head of the Department of Homeland Security. Speaking at the RSA Conference, Chertoff said the government's newfound interest in cybersecurity is massive – "almost like a Manhattan Project," Cox News...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cybersecurity, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- White House taps Wiki entrepreneur to fight cyberattacks
- Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rod A. Beckstrom has been tapped to join the Bush Administration to help secure federal networks against attack, the Post reported today. Beckstrom most recently founded Twiki.net, an enterprise Wiki support company, and previously created CATS Software and Mergent Systems. He's also coauthor of a...
- Tags: White House, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Cyberattack, Post Story, Hacking, Wiki, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Federal budget recommends US-CERT get $242 million
- The White House unveiled its fiscal 2009 budget proposal and the $3.1 trillion monstrosity throws the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team $242 million to boost its malware and intrusion detection capabilities. According to the proposed budget released on Monday, "a more robust US-CERT will increase the cyber security posture...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, US-CERT, Data Centers, Intrusion Detection, Social Security, Network Security, Storage, Security, Hardware, Data Management, Government, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- State Department Chooses Microsoft Software to Make Better Use of In-House Expertise
- Several years ago, the State of Tennessee standardized on Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Oracle for large application development. The Tennessee Department of Human Services DHS adopted Microsoft software to deliver high-impact, mission-critical applications at a lower cost, while continuing to improve citizen services through technology. Microsoft Visual Studio...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of State, Microsoft Corp., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Software Development, J2Ee, Java, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Operating Systems, Software, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- Real ID postponed for 5 years
- The Real ID program, hated by states who would have to pay the costs and civil libertarians, is being pushed back five more years, the Bush Administration announced Friday, The Washington Post reported. The law, which was originally slated to take effect in May of this year, is being...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Regulations, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-01-13
- Four questions for the week ahead in security
- Here's what I'm pondering for the week ahead. 1. When are those Mac patches coming? We have Macworld next week and while everyone is looking at those cool ultra portable notebooks don't be surprised if Apple launches a software update. With any luck Apple can address the latest QuickTime...
- Tags: Card, Oracle Corp., U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Fraud, Litigation, Security, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- DHS planning Cyber Storm II exercise in March
- DHS planning Cyber Storm II exercise in MarchCriteria for successWhat is the criteria for success and is it defined before or after the exercise?
- Tags: Cyber Storm II, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Discussion threads 2007-12-15
- DHS planning Cyber Storm II exercise in March
- A Department of Homeland Security official said Cyber Storm II, a national cyber security exercise, is slated for March 2008. In comments before the New York Metro Infragard Alliance Security Summit on Tuesday, Greg Garcia, assistant secretary of cybersecurity and communications at the DHS, said planning is...
- Tags: Cyber Security, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- DHS Is Transforming Its IT Environment to Improve Services and Reduce Costs
- The Department of Human Services DHS is Victoria's largest government agency, employing more than 11,500 people dedicated to serving the public. In 2005, DHS Information Services Branch decided to implement a service delivery model based on adopting the ITIL framework to help improve services to its DHS customers and to...
- Tags: IT Environment, Information Technology, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Computer Associates International Inc., ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- DHS has some house keeping to do
- The office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security has issued a 41 page report on how the department is progressing on security. Summary findings: Systems are being accredited without key documents or missing key information. ...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Security, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- DHS accused of collecting union data on travellers
- DHS accused of collecting union data on travellersDamn Lies!Best proof I've seen that DHS Sec. Michael Chertoff is lying. I know the U.S. Government is abysmally slow at destroying ANY data that it collects. And it gets replicated in so many places that stamping it out is harder...
- Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, union data, Michael Chertoff
- Discussion threads 2007-10-15
- DHS accused of collecting union data on travellers
- Does being a union member now make you a terrorist threat? Labor leaders charge that the Dept. of Homeland Security is collecting union membership data on passengers flying from Europe to the U.S., as part of a data-sharing deal with the European Union, The Washington Post reports. As...
- Tags: Data, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Union Membership, Transportation, Homeland Security, Leadership, Government, Management, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-12
- DHS mailing list melts down due to config error
- DHS mailing list melts down due to config error. . .and those are the "professionals"Yet another argument for downsizing of government!
- Tags: DHS mailing list, mailing list, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Discussion threads 2007-10-08
- DHS mailing list melts down due to config error
- The Department of Homeland Security created a nice little mini-version of a distributed denial of service attack, due a simple list config error on its Open Source Intelligence Report, The SANS Internet Storm Center reports. a reader replied to the list address with a request for a change and...
- Tags: Mailing List, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, E-mail, Online Communications, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-10-05
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