When it comes to securing the nation's critical energy networks, the Department of Energy says much work remains. Key to that work are the engineers, network administrators, vendors and others behind the security technology -- but they will be leaving the industry in droves in the next five years,...
The ability to detect insider threats and behaviors from a plethora of live data is the goal of an ambitious research program being undertaken by the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Last week DARPA took a big step toward realizing the potential of the program it calls Anomaly...
As the country's electricity grid undergoes a transformation and moves toward a more intelligently networked, automated system, it faces an increasing amount cybersecurity issues.
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory researchers will next week detail a system they say will make it easier for companies to recover from nasty security intrusions.
Looking to protect its massive networks from myriad insider security threats, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency rolled out a project that would let security personnel quickly detect and stop network insiders stealing or distributing military or government information.
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities in key corporate tools such as Web apps, JavaScriot, PDFs, are increasing dramatically, having reached record levels for the first half of 2010, according to security watchers on IBM's X-Force research and development team.
Will ubiquitous encryption of important network traffic ever happen? A group of researchers presenting at next month's Usenix Security Symposium will talk about a technology they say could make end-to-end encryption of TCP traffic the default, not the exception.
While it is the same in many public and private corporations, government cloud computing projects can be a double-edged sword: while cloud computing offers many benefits, it can also create numerous information security risks.
When it comes to our nation's information systems and cyber infrastructures, the hackers never stop trying to smash it and the government should never stop trying to protect it.
It's not a very good day when a security report concludes: Disruptive cyber activities expected to become the norm in future political and military conflicts.
It's not often you hear a highly placed IT executive dump on his own network security let alone a person entrusted with as much riding on such a systems as the Federal Aviation Administration.
They call it game changing cyber security innovation and at over $30 million it better be. Researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) today outlined the major contractors it expects will develop the first phase of technologies that it promises will improve cyber security "by...
Stanford researchers will in August update their work on their new architecture for corporate networks which provides a powerful yet simple management model and strong security relationships.Known as Ethane, the simple-to-define access policies are maintained in one place, and implemented consistently...
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