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The Silent Circle crypto service could solve BYOD security through peer-to-peer encryption, and although that could keep authorities from snooping on calls, military and intelligence agencies are getting on board.
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An optimistic scorecard predicts that agencies will meet 95 percent of their priority goals by the end of fiscal 2014, but the race to the finish looks more like a slog than a sprint.
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Complexity is the enemy of security, says NIST's FISMA lead Ron Ross, and the cloud can help simplify networks.
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A McAfee survey finds that 36 percent of mobile users don't even use a password to protect their devices, which serves as a reminder to secure your smart phones and tablets.
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Telework Week gets tens of thousands of feds to try working from home, and they're not all using an agency-issued laptop.
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The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a collaborative effort on the cyber defense of the financial sector, was honored with the RSA Conference's information security award.
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Research describing a more successful attack on the new Secure Hash Algorithm will be published later this month, but SHA-3 remains much more powerful than the best attacks yet discovered.
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Many cybersecurity practitioners say, "forget the attacker, focus on the risk," but there is a growing consensus that the best way to combat cyber espionage is with political and economic responses.
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The company has added NIST-certified encryption to its USB and module bay self-encrypting drives.
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NIST issues an RFI for voluntary standards and best practices for industry to reduce cyber risks to networks and computers that support critical infrastructure.