Cyberspace news from FierceGovernmentIT

Many commonly-held policy assumptions about cyberspace are wrong, said James Andrew Lewis, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' technology and public policy program, during Read more...

Metaphors about cyberspace and cybersecurity have obscured as much as clarified, says a paper by Adriane Lapointe, a National Security Agency official currently a visiting fellow at the Center for Read more...

The Defense Department unveiled a unified strategy for cyberspace July 14 which charts a new way forward for DoD's military, intelligence and business operations. The department has considered Read more...

U.S. Cyber Command's concept of operations lacks detail and clarity around roles and responsibilities that enable CYBERCOM's support for Defense Department cyberspace operations, say military Read more...

The United States has allowed international misconceptions about its cybersecurity posture to perpetuate, said James Lewis, director and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Read more...

The Defense Department recognizes that cyberspace is as important a military domain as the land, sea, air and space, Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said May 21 during a ceremony to officially Read more...

America's military is preparing for a new kind of warfare. It's warfare in cyberspace, and some military officials say a cyberattack would result in an "electronic Pearl Harbor." It could shut down Read more...

When it comes to the prospects of a war in cyberspace and the integrity of computer systems and the Internet, the U.S. and Russia are in a delicate tap dance. Both are eyeing each other as Read more...

President Obama has great hopes and plans for cyberspace. But little has been said about what can really be done to protect it. Obama certainly knows the problems. His own website was hacked during Read more...

When Federal CIO Vivek Kundra talks, every IT person in the federal government should be listening. He's recently started blogging on ostp.gov, and his words are an instant guide to where he is Read more...