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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

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

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

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

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

Baby steps on interoperable comms

It's been close to five years since 9/11, and a key technology goal for disaster readiness has been stalled for much of that time. First responders at the federal, state and local levels cannot communicate with each other because systems are not interoperable. At a conference on the topic this...

Tags: Michael Chertoff

Blog posts 2006-05-09

Chertoff floats customer data retention plan

Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff proposed requiring companies to retain data about their customers, under some sort of screening program under which filters would be applied to the data, GovExec.com reports. "One of the proposals that was floated and shot down before I got here was screening for...

Tags: Michael Chertoff

Blog posts 2006-03-09

Fixing FEMA: Chertoff focuses on technology

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff finally conceded that the agency's response to Katrina failed and many of his proposed fixes center on tech, the Times reports. Mr. Chertoff said steps were under way to improve communications within his department and with other agencies,...

Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Chertoff

Blog posts 2006-02-13

Chertoff on technology and homeland security

Homeland security is a very big job - encompassing everything from border control to cybersecurity to staving off nuclear attacks - and it can't be done without better reliance on technology and better coordination between the federal government and state and local officials and law enforcement, Dept. of Homeland Security...

Tags: Michael Chertoff, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Blog posts 2005-07-31

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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

Novell insists it's winning the Linux wars

In the third of a series of interviews by Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian right insisted his company is not being hurt by its association with Microsoft. "Novell grew 200% in the SUSE Linux marketplace year-over-year from an invoicing perspective," he said. The...

Tags: Novell Inc., Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-03-31

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