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A government effort to establish a national online identity ecosystem should be led by a new, self-sustaining and privately-led steering group, says a new set of governance recommendations (.pdf) Read more...

Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt, senior Homeland Security Department officials and more than two dozen electric-sector executives met Jan. Read more...

Government representatives from the United States and India signed July 19 a memorandum of understanding to promote closer cooperation and the timely exchange of cybersecurity information in New Read more...

The United States is strengthening cyber ties with Russia in the hopes that active diplomacy and international technical collaboration will reduce the overall risk to national networks, said Howard Read more...

The White House delivered cybersecurity legislation to lawmakers May 12 that proposes a voluntary assistance and information sharing framework between government and industry. The proposal comes Read more...

A controversial Internet security bill proposed in 2010 by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) could yet become law in the current session of Congress, said Jeff Greene, counsel on the majority staff of the Read more...

President Obama will soon sign a finalized version of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and the Commerce Department will stand up a national program office focused on the Read more...

The federal government and a private sector financial association signed a Dec. 6 agreement with the goal of speeding the commercialization of cybersecurity research, say White House officials. The Read more...

Cyber Czar Howard Schmidt said four guiding principals lie behind White House Internet policymaking: Deterrence, resilience, privacy and partnerships. Schmidt spoke Dec. 6 at an event hosted by the Read more...

Of the 24 near- and mid-term action items listed in President Obama's May 2009 cyber policy review, only two are fully implemented and both involved appointments within the National Security Council, Read more...