• October's National Cyber Security Awareness Month launched

    Dozens of cybersecurity initiatives to reach consumers, students, and businesses; the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), DHS, and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, have sponsored National Cyber Security Awareness Month every October since its founding in 2003

  • Budget cuts harm cybersecurity in the states, survey says

    New survey finds that many states lack sufficient cybersecurity resources; the problem is not just funding: many state CISOs lack the visibility and authority to effectively drive security down to the individual agency level

  • Faster cybersecurity with merging of two protocols

    Combination of unrelated protocols — a suite of automated network access control standards from the Trusted Computing Group and the government’s Security Content Automation Protocols (SCAP) — now being tested in South Carolina to enable automated policy enforcement on networks; the two standards offer a complementary set of capabilities, each valuable in its own right but much more powerful when combined

  • Ethical hacking conference coming to Charleston, WVA

    A major ethical hacking event will take place in Charleston, West Virginia, 23-24 October; the event will focus on “white hat hacking” — meaning learning how to think like the “black hat hackers” or bad actors and how they operate; a Hacker Village will be set up at the Charleston Civic Center featuring a network of systems designed with vulnerabilities so attendees can try their stuff with mentors on hand

  • Cyber innovation center launches in Maryland

    SAIC opens a new Cyber Innovation Center in Columbia, Maryland; SAIC employees in Columbia and throughout the United States will have remote access to the Center’s technical-solutions lab