Cyber Defense news from FierceGovernmentIT

The Defense Department is drafting a plan it will soon present to Congress to more effectively acquire cyber defense capabilities, according to Frank Kendall, acting under secretary of defense for Read more...

Deterrence, as an enforceable strategy, has been much more difficult to understand in cyberspace than in the kinetic domain, said Dmitri Alperovitch, an Internet security researcher and vice Read more...

Ironically, the Department of Homeland Security is not so secure in its own virtual backyard. According to a new audit report from the agency's Inspector General Richard Skinner, some of the agencies Read more...

There's still a lot of confusion over who should take the reins to establish minimum cybersecurity standards for public and private networks. But an association of intelligence and security Read more...