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The Homeland Security Department released Dec. 12 its cybersecurity strategy, calling it a Blueprint for a Secure Cyber Future (.pdf). The framework aims to help it better use existing capabilities Read more...

The government, specifically the Homeland Security Department, should have a role in protecting .gov cyberspace and critical infrastructure but it should avoid overly-rigid guidance, said Homeland Read more...

Prospects for a spending bill to fund the entirety of the remaining two quarters of the federal fiscal year may have dimmed March 9 after the Senate rejected in back-to-back votes two proposed Read more...

Executive branch input on the composition of a comprehensive cybersecurity reform bill has been held up by a unnecessarily long interagency process, said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) during a Read more...

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terrorist group affiliated with Osama bin Laden's organization, does a decent magazine, said a top government official Feb. 9 before a congressional panel. The Read more...

Federal network intrusion detection system Einstein 2 should be fully deployed across the federal government by the end of this year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Jan. 27, while Read more...

The Obama administration will now support efforts to grant public safety license to a 10 megahertz swath of spectrum known as the D block, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Jan. 27. Read more...

The SBInet program is no more, the Homeland Security Department announced January 14. Instead, the department will launch a new border security technology approach, "which will utilize existing, Read more...

The National Security Agency and Homeland Security Department are swapping cybersecurity personnel under the terms of a memorandum of agreement made public Oct. 13. The memo (.pdf) sets an agenda of Read more...

Customs and Border Protection lacks the capability to support SBInet technology already deployed along the southwestern border, says the Homeland Security Department. According to the "Border Read more...