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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...Sector response to a cyber related incident of national significance Large scale exercise through simulated incident reporting only no actual impact or attacks on live networks Specifically directed by Congress ... and coordinated with DHS National Exercise Program In short, the exercise objective was to pretend that a faux "Worldwide...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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The National Cyber Exercise

2008-02-06 13:29:21 by Burton Group in Security and Risk Management Strategies Blog
 
...Sector response to a cyber related incident of national significance Large scale exercise through simulated incident reporting only ??? no actual impact or attacks on live networks Specifically directed by Congress ... and coordinated with DHS National Exercise Program In short, the exercise objective was to pretend that a faux "Worldwide...
 
Tags: cyber, national cyber exercise, exercise, exercise objective, security, exercise results, international, international government participants, security contact
 
 
 
 
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US Government planning to spend 10% of its IT budget on cyber-security by 2009.

2008-02-25 13:59:58 by Khalid Kark in Security & Risk Management
 
...sector across North America and Europe. As many of us have seen stagnation in our security budgets, the US government has increased its cyber-security budget by a whopping 73% since 2004. The media has picked up on things such as DOT (Department of Transportation) more than doubling its budget while DHS (Department of Homeland Security) had...
 
Tags: cyber-security, budget, cyber-security budget, security, government, measure security, security budgets, mature security postures, government infrastructure
 
 
 
 
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Common Criteria and answering the question 'Is it Safe'

2007-12-20 16:57:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...sector or in any community beyond government agencies. Microsoft has been very vocal in the CC community on suggestions as to why that is and how to modify CC for broader commercial acceptance, and so I thought Id share some of those thoughts here. Currently, Common Criteria fails to meet customer needs as a useful indicator of the likelihood...
 
Tags: criteria, fails, common criteria fails, common criteria, common criteria arguably, common, arguably, arguably deficient, security
 
 
 
 
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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...sector self-regulation in the same way that earlier online privacy principles had been adopted by the US private sector self-regulation in response to the Safe Harbor agreement to meet the privacy mandates of the European Unions Data Protection Directive. The FTC is presently soliciting private sector comment on these principles and their...
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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Can You Believe It? With the Financial Markets in Turmoil, the Hosting Industry Continues to Thrive!

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2008-09-18 15:00:18 by David Link in ScienceLogic
...sector as on fire The sector is humming incredible growth, outstanding execution, blowing away expectations. I must say, looking back 5 years ago after the tech bubble collapse, I cant believe how strong the sector bounced back from those very difficult times His presentation was focused on a future, and a longer view for the industry. The...
 
Tags: fast, demand steady, demand, incredibly fast growth, growth, drive demand, drive, internet traffic growth, industry
 
 
 
 
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Learning from Ghana

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2008-05-09 10:27:18 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
...sector to enable it to play a key role in resource mobilisation for increased investment With the reforms and the stability of the macro-economy, President Kufuor said the nation was witnessing dramatic growth in the banking sector He pointed out, however, that inspite of the impressive growth of financial institutions, an estimated 80 per...
 
Tags: system involves, system, financial services industry, services, electronic payment system, ghana, president kufuor, kufuor, universal electronic system
 
 
 
 
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NAPA Shows How the Government is Using Web 2.0

2008-07-16 20:45:37 by Julia Lim in ScienceLogic
 
...sector . We also found through a survey of government workers that 65% of government IT workers surveyed said that Web 2.0 tools are important to their operations. The overall message was that all IT, government included, have too many projects they could be taking on for the amount of resources they have. For much of the IT topics we covered...
 
Tags: web, government, web page, government web, collaboration, mass collaboration, collaboration project seeks, government employees, enhance government transparency
 
 
 
 
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Golf Driven Security

2008-08-26 17:00:50 by Gunnar Peterson in 1 Raindrop
 
...sector is about fifteen times larger than software security sector, prompting one person to write saying that we have invested wisely in network security, eliminated the problems and will address the software security problem with internal processes and tools The problem is that compared to software security we are clearly overspending on...
 
Tags: software security, software security sector, software security people, network security sector, network security, people, golf, internal processes, reason attempt