In September, the US government unveiled its draft cyber security strategy plan. Any new homeland security department set up by the US government will need to purchase computer equipment for internal use and would likely promote new technology to...
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made some progress in hardening the country's networks against cyberattacks, but many issues still remain, according to an internal DHS report. As a result, some programs within DHS, including...
At the end of August it issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, which mandates that a secure identification card standard be created and that all federal employees use cards created under the standard.
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has failed to live up to its cyber security responsibilities and may be "unprepared" for emergencies, federal auditors said in a scathing report released on Thursday.
Part of the 1,724-page energy bill that President Bush signed last week calls for federal bureaucrats to create an "electric reliability organisation" that would draft mandatory standards - including cyber-security guidelines - for electric power...
Schmidt was joined on the panel by Andy Purdy, acting director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security; Daniel Mehan, former chief information officer at the Federal Aviation Administration; and James Lewis...