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...

A federal task force will be coming up with new metrics for information security performance that focuses on outcomes. Agencies will receive a draft in November with requests for comments. Federal... Read more...

Vivek Kundra, the nation's first federal Chief Information Officer, testified before Congress on Tuesday that the seven-year-old Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) was old and rusty.... Read more...

It is often said that security threats not only come from external hackers and criminal groups, but from people on the inside who know the system, the passwords and the codes. On Friday, a former IT... Read more...

The Obama administration announced late Friday that it has received a report on the state of the government's readiness to deal with cybersecurity threats. The aim of the presidential 60-day review... Read more...

Louis Freeh, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, told a conference last week that government must move swiftly to anticipate what's coming next on the cybersecurity war front... Read more...