DARPA’s strategy for 100-year software
The research agency’s BRASS program aims to ensure that applications can continue to function in a rapidly changing technology ecosystem.
Progress toward an identity ecosystem
Identity must be the foundation for future security platforms because traditional network, data and systems protections are of limited use against today's sophisticated cyber criminals.
Massive OpenSSL audit hopes to squash Heartbleed-like bugs
The audit by Cryptography Services will cover a range of security concerns but will focus primarily on the Transport Layer Security stacks, protocol flow, state transitions and memory management.
5 tools for improved identity management
While agency security challenges continue to unfold, IT managers will have to rely on existing technology solutions to help manage their ongoing and embryonic security threats.
Agencies navigate the identity-based security ecosystem
Identity systems – and the electronic formats for managing them – have become the top priority for safeguarding the government data attackers now target.
Now that’s persistent: Equation’s firmware threat
An Equation Group threat that uses disk drive firmware to plant malware in systems points to the kind of sophisticated and hard-to-tackle menace that will increasingly be a part of black hat attacks.
Cyber info sharing: More noise than signal?
Can government manage the growing ecosystem around cybersecurity information sharing while still improving how fast it reacts to threats?
Spark fires up near-real-time big data
Rapid in-memory processing of distributed data is the “core capability” of Apache Spark, which enables the analysis of streaming big data.
Best cyber defense: tech savvy, informed users
Leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos moved cybersecurity higher on their agenda, but threats will only worsen without users who understand the tools and tactics of a sound cybersecurity defense.
Is the term ‘big data’ passé?
While 'big data' was useful at one point in encapsulating the idea of exploiting huge volumes of structured and unstructured information, many feel the term is past its sell-by date.
Big data promises a health care remedy
Government agencies are making strides testing uses of big data to predict risks of disease or the path of a killer virus, but hurdles remain, including linking legacy datasets and setting up common vocabularies.
2015 augurs newer, more devastating exploits on the unprepared
Big data, mobile and hybrid cloud technologies are creating challenging security environments for which half of organizations in a recent study had no disaster recovery plan.
Cyberattack ‘platforms’ call for defense in depth – and breadth
The new level of advanced persistent threats – some lasting for a decade or more – calls for agencies to extend their defensive measures to cover threats to partners well outside the enterprise.
Tableau puts real-time data modeling in the dashboard
Tableau’s business intelligence tools enable near-real-time “what if” data visualizations and allow users to share analytics in a collaborative environment.
Look for more attacks coming from privileged accounts
A recent survey claims that most, if not all, of the rise in sophisticated, targeted attacks from the outside is due to exploitation of privileged accounts.
5G will power the Internet of Things – and governments
Although 5G technology is still at a nascent stage of development, citizens and government will soon demand it to power a real-time connected world.
Attacks on open source call for better software design
With as much as 90 percent of the code used for in-house development is based on pre-fabricated modules, we need better tools that scan components for potential vulnerabilities before they are tied into actual products.
Lollipop or lockdown? What a secure mobile OS means for BYOD
Android Lollipop and iOS8 present government mobility managers with more options for balancing end-user convenience with the requirements of high-threat, classified environments.
Wolfe brings the cloud to the intelligence community
CIA chief information officer Doug Wolfe ushers in an era of cloud computing to the intelligence community, offering powerful new tools for rapid data integration and analytics.
What gives? Shellshock fails to shock
Shortly after the Heartbleed bug caused a panic in security circles, along comes something which could be even more serious and the reaction seems to be one big yawn.
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