NSA news from FierceGovernmentIT

Open source advocates within the intelligence community are applauding a provision of the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill requiring the Defense Information Systems Agency to publically make Read more...

A civil suit against the government filed over National Security Agency warrantless wiretapping can proceed, ruled the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a Dec. 29 opinion (.pdf). The opinion sends Read more...

By the beginning of fiscal 2014, the Army plans to launch a secure "AppMall" for enterprise-focused applications, according to Mary Lynn Schnurr, Army Intelligence chief information officer. "We knew Read more...

Government entities acting independently will be unable to successfully raise public awareness of cybersecurity issues or develop a cybersecurity workforce, said speakers Sept. 21 at a National 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...

Government agencies need not make their code available to the public in order to enjoy the benefits of the open source model, said a senior intelligence community technology official. Alex Read more...

The National Security Agency spends a significant portion of its budget on cybersecurity technologies, but it's currently falling behind its target for small-business utilization, according to Read more...

Recent phishing attacks against high profile targets--such as White House officials and the International Monetary Fund--have put this particular cyber attack back in the public consciousness. Read more...

Defense Department efficiency efforts may not reach the intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance enterprise, a sector with spending well into the billions of dollars, because the under secretary Read more...

Cybersecurity legislation will not solve the challenges faced in public- and private-sector IT, and could result in another security check box instead of a cultural change, said Kevin Gronberg, Read more...