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- 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
- Attacks escalate on critical U.S. government networks: Will a Manhattan Project work?
- Last week Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff outlined plans for a federal Manhattan Project to bolster cyber security. The big question is whether this project will bolster cyber security defenses as attacks on U.S. infrastructure escalate. In a nutshell, Chertoff says federal agencies will cut the...
- Tags: China, BusinessWeek, Network, Agency, U.S. Government, Cybersecurity, Attack, Security, Aerospace & Defense, Networking, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-13
- 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
- Homeland Security secretary pushes cybersecurity 'Manhattan Project'
- At RSA 2008 in San Francisco, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff discusses a new directive focusing on an early warning system to identify cyberattacks before they start.
- Tags: Security
- Videos 2008-04-09
- 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 â€" "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
- 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
- Rudy's brilliant new idea: a virtual border fence
- Here we go - another tech-clueless politician believes technology will provide a panacea for difficult problems. Rudy Giuiliani says he wants to build a virtual fence to monitor the whole - or at least much of the - US-Mexico border, the AP reports. The...
- Tags: Software, Associated Press, Fence, Border, Rudy, Homeland Security, Tools & Techniques, Government, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- 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
- Update: Boeing virtual fence "unusable"
- The Department of Homeland Security DHS virtual fence project, being built by Boeing, has failed an initial set of tests, according to the Associated Press: Because of a software glitch, the first high-tech "virtual fence" on the nation's borders remains inoperable, three months after its...
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- WA experiments with a high-tech license
- Not every state is fighting the Real ID law, which mandates states to produce high-tech drivers licenses capable of containing a range of digital information. The state of Washingtons experiment with high-security drivers licenses could set a precedent for other states, reports the Concord Monitor. The new...
- Tags: Network technology, Michael Chertoff
- Blog posts 2007-03-26
- DHS locates advanced forensics lab in AL
- The Department of Homeland Security is opening a forensic crime lab in Alabama, Information Week reports. The new National Computer Forensic Institute will emphasize digital evidence analysis, according to a Department of Homeland Security release. The Secret Service - an investigator into financial and cyber crime - will...
- Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, training
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- DE: More money needed to comply with Real ID
- Even with the new extensions and funding for Real ID, Delaware will have a hard time meeting the laws requirements, some state officials say, according to the DE News Journal. For one thing, the federal government hasnt actually released any new money. Department of Homeland Security Michael...
- Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-03-02
- Extension, details for states on Real ID
- After two years of legislative wrangling over a national ID program, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is finally laying out state responsibilities on how to implement the program, reports the Washington Post. The Bush administration has also agreed to postpone the launch of the "Real ID" program ...
- Tags: Government technology, Homeland security, State &, Local Govt
- Blog posts 2007-03-01
- Chertoff: Web is terrorist breeding ground
- The Internet has been designated a viable threat to homeland security by the federal government, and the Dept. of Homeland Security is planning to deploy agents to seek out the disaffected whove been busily radicalizing themselves on the Web, reports Wired News. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said...
- Tags: Real estate, Web, Michael Chertoff, homeland security, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- Dunn to exit as HP chairman
- Dunn to exit as HP chairmanI believehe was talking about a pay cheque. Although I don't think someone who exchanges power supplies and reinstalls Windows earns too much.Its a Farse; The Job Aint Dunn, I've HurdHurd and Dunn are one in the same. It was Dunn that took Hurd from...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, reason folk, Keyworth, U.S. Congress, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
- Homeland security chief on privacy
- Michael Chertoff speaks at opening of first JRICChertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, appears at the opening of the Joint Regional Intelligence Center in Norwalk, Calif., on Friday, Aug. 18, saying that his department is indeed concerned with privacy. The intelligence center joins federal, state and local...
- Tags: Michael Chertoff
- Videos 2006-08-21
- Register: Fliers stripped of hi-tech, remote detonation a possibility in terror plot
- According to The Register's reporting on this morning's foiled terror plot, passengers looking to fly out of UK airports this morning were not only asked to stow all of their carry-on luggage, they were asked to put any electronics in that luggage. The crackdown on wireless technology apparently included...
- Tags: detonation, plot
- Blog posts 2006-08-10
- The case of the missing assistant secretary
- A year ago Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the creation of an assistant secretary for cybersecurity. A year later, the agency has not even identified a candidate for the job, the Washington Post reports. "What this tells me is that ... [Chertoff] still hasn't made this...
- Tags: Paul Kurtz, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Blog posts 2006-07-12
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