Inside the vast homeland security bureaucracy, Yoran will lead a relatively small group: the National Cyber Security Division, which had only 60 employees when Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge created it in June.
The Parliament, despite numerous concessions accepted by Washington (34 rather than 39 types of data, length of time the data can be stored reduced to three and a half years) is sticking to its guns for a reason: the data transfer agreement breaks...
The US Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday that it had awarded Accenture a contract worth up to $10bn for help in upgrading the nation's system for tracking visitors. This award marks an important milestone in the history of Homeland...
Governments are keen on biometrics because it beefs up homeland security, an area that has garnered much public interest after the 11 September terrorist attacks, he said. The most damaging of information crimes invariably involve the circumvention...
The US Department of Homeland Security has signed a deal with content security firm Websense to protect its systems from spyware and other nasties. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division has 40,000 employees.
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...