Voting in the United States carries a huge privacy cost: states give away or sell voters' personal information to anyone who wants it. In this era of content micro-targeting, rampant misinformation and identity theft schemes, this trade in voters' personal data is both dangerous and irresponsible.
Rather than creating a new commission to take the lead role on data security, the government of India is giving the Telecom Commission that role and renaming it the Digital Communications Commission, making it a primary custodian of citizens' data.
With the U.S. midterm elections occurring on Tuesday, the "trump" keyword remains king for spammers. "Spam campaigners understand the value of brands, and for spam as for ballots, and whether for or against, the election is all about Trump," security firm Proofpoint says.
The U.K.'s National Cyber Security Center incident response teams have investigated more than 1,000 significant incidents in the past two years, the majority of which trace to nation-state attackers, officials say.
The Pentagon is warning that a data breach at a third-party travel management service provider exposed records for an estimated 30,000 civilian and military personnel. The breach alert follows a recent GAO report warning of serious cybersecurity shortcomings in U.S. weapon systems.
The government of India is taking several steps to help boost local security companies. But it needs to do far more. Such action would help reduce vulnerabilities to attacks while creating jobs.
The complexity of information technology and the constantly evolving threat landscape makes implementing appropriate controls and processes to secure information assets a major challenge for most enterprises in and out of government. The number of vulnerabilities organizations face is mindboggling: the National...
Snowden proved you can't trust on the inside. OPM proved you can't trust the outside. Who should you trust when it comes to your data? No one! In this provocative and informative presentation, retired Brigadier General Greg Touhill, the first Chief Information Security Officer of the U.S. government and current...
In the last year, we've seen a significant increase in cyber activity, from propaganda through "information warfare" to mass-scale cybercrime. Increasing political tensions complicate an already complex international response. Differing approaches to cyber and privacy risk in Europe and the United States have caused...
Cybersecurity is at the top of the agenda in board rooms around the world. In this presentation, Retired Brigadier Gen. Greg Touhill, the first Chief Information Security Officer of the United States Government, will discuss lessons learned during his military and federal service. Discover how properly executing...
As the attackers evolve their techniques, so does the requirement to change the way we defend and prevent these attacks we read about in the headlines almost daily. Technology alone will not solve this. It will require the right mix of security technologies, together with processes to protect our privacy, and people...
The Obama administration has implemented a number of cybersecurity and privacy initiatives and policies aimed at making IT more secure for the federal government and the private sector, including the cybersecurity framework, National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, employing encryption and sharing cyber...
The Department of Homeland Security is at the nexus of the voluntary federal program in which the private sector shares cyber threat information with the government and with other businesses. To encourage participation, Congress last year changed federal law to furnish businesses with liability protections from...
The cyber-defense challenge is an evolving and complex one for both public entities and private industry. States, in particular, have become a testing ground for new approaches and best practices. In this session, you'll hear how the Commonwealth of Virginia is approaching cybersecurity; how the Office of the...
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