Canadian Government Aims For Single Email System
Shared Services Canada cuts costs and improves efficiency by consolidating basic IT services across much of the Canadian federal government.
View ArticleAmazon Cloud Services Wins DoD Authorization
Amazon gets provisional operating authorization to sell cloud services to the Defense Department for work involving low-risk unclassified data.
View ArticleFeds To Improve Threat Information Sharing
Project Interoperability aims to develop and standardize formats for sharing security and threat information among organizations.
View ArticleUS Unveils Super-Accurate Atomic Clock
NIST's new F2 cesium fountain clock, three times more accurate than the previous clock, improves reliability for communications networks and positioning systems that depend on precise timing.
View ArticleICANN Defends Internet Oversight Handoff
Congress hears arguments for and against Commerce Department plans to give up control of many Internet operations.
View ArticleFeds Address Antitrust Concerns On Cyberthreat Sharing
Justice Dept. and FTC confirm that sharing cybersecurity threat information is not an antitrust law violation.
View ArticleCyber Security Insurance Market
Cross-industry standards could spur more affordable cyber security insurance.
View ArticleProtecting Critical Infrastructure: A New Approach
NIST's cyber-security framework gives critical-infrastructure operators a new tool to assess readiness. But will operators put this voluntary framework to work?
View ArticleCyber Espionage Incidents Triple: Verizon Report
As cyber espionage grows quickly, government agencies become the No. 1 target, finds 2014 Data Breach Investigations Report.
View ArticleFTC Must Disclose Consumer Data Security Standards
A company accused by the FTC of failing to provide adequate data security has the right to know the required security standards, administrative judge rules.
View ArticleDOJ Sues CA Technologies, Alleges $100 Million In Overcharges
The Justice Dept. joins whistleblower lawsuit against CA, claiming company failed to provide government customers with discounts being given to commercial customers.
View ArticleGAO Faults Agencies On Cyber Incident Response
Recent GAO report finds that agencies lack consistent documented responses to cybersecurity incidents, recommends greater scrutiny of response plans.
View ArticleFederal CIOs Feel Hobbled By Congress
Government IT leaders struggle to incorporate cloud and mobility, bolster security amidst outdated government policies and budget constraints, says study.
View ArticleFCC Wants More Cybersecurity Collaboration, Less Regulation
In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler outlined principles for a market based approach.
View ArticleSupreme Court Rules Against Aereo
Supreme Court rules that Aereo's scheme for delivering broadcast TV over the Internet violates copyright law; legality of cloud storage and other services remains unresolved.
View ArticleVirtual Currencies Draw Fresh Regulator Scrutiny
Federal regulators are paying more attention to the growing use of bitcoin and other virtual online currencies. The GAO calls for more consumer protections.
View ArticleNY Seeks Bitcoin Exchange Regulations
Proposal would require state's digital currency dealers to follow strict anti-money-laundering and consumer protection rules.
View ArticleGovernment Toils To Create Big Data Infrastructure
Government is slowly puzzling out how to extract knowledge from the most data it has ever had available to it.
View ArticleBig Data Disease Breakthroughs
Researchers spotted new ways to treat cancer when the National Institutes of Health enabled semantic searches of its huge Medline database of published medical articles.
View ArticleHomeland Security Funds Software Security Initiative
The DHS contributes $23.5 million toward the Software Assurance Market Place to enable software developers to test open source programs and improve software analysis tools.
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