Henry Kenyon

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White House Cyber Executive Order Sparks New Round Of Cybersecurity Legislation

WASHINGTON: After months in deep freeze, cybersecurity legislation is showing signs of life again on Capitol Hill. The spark behind this renewed activity is the long awaited executive order on cybersecurity, which President Obama signed Tuesday and was released today at a press conference at the Commerce Department. The Obama Administration began working on the…

DISA’s Strategy For Cross-DOD Networks Faces Mounting Budget Pressures

This year, the Defense Information Systems Agency has ambitious plans to streamline and speed up how military personnel access applications and services on the Defense Department’s computer networks. These efforts include launching a new pan-service user environment, making enterprise services easier to use and access, increasing the offerings and capabilities of cloud based systems, and…

Cloud Of Iron: DARPA Hardens Cloud Computing Against Cyber Attack

New technology creates new capabilities — and new vulnerabilities. “Moving to the cloud” is the trend du jour, even in the intelligence world, but the recent attacks on the nation’s banking system has raised uncomfortable questions about how to make cloud computing secure. “The cloud” may seem amorphous, but in reality it consists of a…

DOD, Microsoft Agree To Landmark Enterprise Licensing Deal

The Defense Department has awarded a first of its kind joint enterprise licensing agreement for Microsoft collaboration, mobility, productivity and security tools. Valued at $617 million, the three-year agreement will allow the Army, Air Force and the Defense Information Systems Agency to begin using the latest versions of the company’s products. The agreement creates a…

DARPA’s CRASH Program Reinvents The Computer For Better Security

It’s conventional wisdom to declare that offense will always beat defense in cyberspace, because the Internet was designed with access in mind, not security. It’s a technological problem with strategic consequences as Russian and Chinese hackers rob us blind. But now DARPA, the agency that invented the Internet, is tried to reverse that situation by…

NSA Ready To Launch Classified Mobile Device Service

The National Security Agency is launching a mobile device capability at the end of this year that will allow its personnel to securely access classified information with their smartphones and tablet computers. The program, which is a joint effort with the Defense Information Systems Agency, could potentially provide the military services with similar secure information…

Intelligence Agencies Move Towards Single Super-Cloud

The intelligence community is developing a single cloud computing network to allow all its analysts to access and rapidly sift through massive volumes of data. When fully complete, this effort will create a pan-agency cloud, with organizations sharing many of the same computing resources and information. More importantly, the hope is the system will break…

DoD To Adopt Dutch Public Key System To Support Foreign Military Sales

The Defense Department is planning to accept a European-developed identification standard that will allow allied military personnel and contractors to access secure military networks under specific circumstances. Multinational access considerations are part of a draft memo from DOD chief information officer Teresa Takai, said Paul Grant, director of cybersecurity policy in the DOD CIO’s office.…

Cyber Order Puts DHS In Charge Of Oversight, Sets Deadlines

The Obama administration is getting ready to change the way the government handles cybersecurity. The White House is preparing an executive order, a draft of which is currently circulating among federal agencies for approval, mirroring cyber legislation that recently failed to get through a Senate vote. Among other things, the order shunts much of the…

Cyber Chief Issues Call For Action — Not More Talk; Alexander Outlines Who Does What

WASHINGTON: The nation’s top military cyber commander offered his version of how government and military agencies are likely to work together when America suffers cyber attacks, and warned that industry needs to take a greater role. “We have laid out lanes of the road,” Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of Cyber Command and director of the…

Beyond The Blackberry: Army Test Issues 200 Top Leaders Androids, iPhones, & Galaxies

Top military officials are finally getting a chance to see first hand how tablet computers and smartphones other than their trusted BlackBerrys might work in the line of duty. As part of previously undisclosed program, 200 mobile devices – including iPads, iPhones, Samsung Galaxy tablets and smartphones – have been issued to senior military personnel:…

DoD, Intel Officials Bullish On Open Source Software; Government-wide Software Foundation In The Mix

Defense Department and intelligence community officials have been talking about open source software as the next great thing for government technology programs for years. Why all the love? Speaking at a recent industry gathering, government officials described what they like about the software: it’s affordable, flexible, and can be quickly modified by developers because they…

NRO Starts Moving Spy Satellite Secrets To Open-Source Cloud

In a move toward a more efficient National Reconnaissance Office, analysts for the agency operating the nation’s spy satellites are on the verge of getting their information through a top-secret open-source cloud environment housing intelligence data. Jill Singer, the agency’s chief information officer, offered the latest details on the project at this week’s Red Hat…

Navy, Air Force To Win Budget Wars Over Army

As troops pull out of Afghanistan and Congress looks for fat to trim from the federal budget, future Pentagon spending will dip and then flatline, with money going to the Air Force and Navy while ground forces see reductions in troops and equipment, a new report predicts. It’s not the kind of news that the…

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