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  • Obama's 29 May 2009 cybersecurity speech: a year on

    On 29 May 2009 president Obama said “America’s economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity”; since then the United States has moved systematically toward enhancing cybersecurity through the following initiatives, but much remains to be done

  • Uncle Sam wants 10,000 new cybersecurity professionals

    The United States needs tens of thousands of cybersecurity practitioners, researchers, and — more recently — warriors; U.S. Cyber Challenge launches a nation-wide talent search; this summer, cybersecurity camps will be conducted in three states — California, New York, and Delaware; the goal is thirty-five camps in thirty-two states for next year

  • Commander of U.S. Cyber Command calls for cyber rules of engagement

    Commander of the newly created U.S. Cyber Command says there need to be two sets of rules of cyber engagement — one to cover peacetime situations and another for war; General Keith Alexander said the issue is complicated by the possibility that an adversary may use a neutral country’s computers to launch the attack

  • 21st Century Technologies acquires D.C.-area cyber-security firm

    21st Century Technology (21CT), a developer of advanced intelligence analytics software to combat terrorist threats and cyber threats, acquires a specialist in defenses against network intrusions

  • Lookingglass named finalist for Best Cyber Security Company

    Lookingglass Cyber Solutions’s ScoutVision allows corporations to monitor networks and infrastructure they are not in control of, but rely upon for day-to-day operations; the company is finalist in Maryland Incubator of the Year Awards program