DISA Embraces ‘Zero Trust;’ Might Stop The Next Snowden

DISA Embraces ‘Zero Trust;’ Might Stop The Next Snowden
DISA Embraces ‘Zero Trust;’ Might Stop The Next Snowden

“We met with a vendor on the West Coast — I can’t say who — and saw how they had implemented it end-to-end in their own infrastructure. They looked at (cybersecurity) holistically from the user identity, to the identity of the endpoint, to the application. I was very impressed with what they had done,” says DISA’s Steve Wallace.

SecDef Carter Wants YOU For The Defense Digital Service

SecDef Carter Wants YOU For The Defense Digital Service
SecDef Carter Wants YOU For The Defense Digital Service

SAN FRANCISCO: Uncle Sam wants you, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a skeptical tech community yesterday. It’s part of an all-out effort by the military’s civilian leader to get the technologically best and brightest to work with or even for the often-hidebound Pentagon. Carter has created the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUX) and the Defense Digital Service, both…

‘Everything We Can Do For Our French Counterparts We Are Doing:’ NGA Head

‘Everything We Can Do For Our French Counterparts We Are Doing:’ NGA Head
‘Everything We Can Do For Our French Counterparts We Are Doing:’ NGA Head

NGA HEADQUARTERS: If you want further proof of the damage that Edward Snowden has wrought on American intelligence capabilities, look at the relative ease with which the Paris terrorists planned, traveled and killed in Europe. “The adversary has gone and is going to school against our capabilities,” NGA Director Robert Cardillo told reporters here today.…

Work With Putin To Stop Another Paris: CIA Chief Brennan

Work With Putin To Stop Another Paris: CIA Chief Brennan
Work With Putin To Stop Another Paris: CIA Chief Brennan

WASHINGTON: The enemy of my enemy may not be my friend, but he can be useful. In a speech he’d ripped up and rewritten since Friday’s horrific attacks on Paris, CIA chief John Brennan said even the only superpower needs help in a dangerous world. That sometimes requires working with countries that make the world worse,…

US Not Sure What Was Taken In OPM Hack: DNI Clapper

US Not Sure What Was Taken In OPM Hack: DNI Clapper
US Not Sure What Was Taken In OPM Hack: DNI Clapper

WASHINGTON: Hacks are hard to do damage assessments on. Just ask Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper about the Chinese theft of data from the Office of Personnel Management. “We don’t actually know what was actually exfiltrated,” Clapper told several hundred people at Georgetown University’s Healy Hall today. Why don’t we really know if 5.6 million fingerprints — or…

MH17 Tragedy Strengthens European Spines To Sanction Russia: UK Ambassador

MH17 Tragedy Strengthens European Spines To Sanction Russia: UK Ambassador
MH17 Tragedy Strengthens European Spines To Sanction Russia: UK Ambassador

THE WATERGATE: United we stand, Great Britain’s ambassador to the US insisted today. Despite all the strains on the Atlantic alliance — post-Snowden backlash against American spying, rising anti-EU sentiment in Britain, German dependence on Russian energy — the US, the UK, and their continental European allies stand together against what he called Russian “hybrid…

New NSA, CyberCom Chief Tells Workforce: Forget Snowden, Do The Mission

New NSA, CyberCom Chief Tells Workforce: Forget Snowden, Do The Mission
New NSA, CyberCom Chief Tells Workforce: Forget Snowden, Do The Mission

WASHINGTON: “One of the things I try to tell the work force out there is this is not what is going to define us,” said Adm. Mike Rogers, new head of the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command. After two months in the job — and halfway through this morning’s Q&A at a Bloomberg Government…

Obama Picks Navy Admiral For NSA; Keeps CyberCom Ties

Obama Picks Navy Admiral For NSA; Keeps CyberCom Ties
Obama Picks Navy Admiral For NSA; Keeps CyberCom Ties

PENTAGON: Vice Adm. Michael Rogers

Intelligence in 2014: Shrinking Budget Cuts, Snowden-Driven ‘Reforms’

Intelligence in 2014: Shrinking Budget Cuts, Snowden-Driven ‘Reforms’
Intelligence in 2014: Shrinking Budget Cuts, Snowden-Driven ‘Reforms’

WASHINGTON: Positing the future of intelligence — even for one year — poses unique challenges. First, there’s so much those of on the outside don’t know. Then there’s the simple truth that our enemies and competitors drive so much of intelligence. Since we can’t know with certainty what will happen, it’s difficult to predict what the intelligence…

New Intel Bill Would Force More FISA Court Reporting

New Intel Bill Would Force More FISA Court Reporting
New Intel Bill Would Force More FISA Court Reporting

AFA Conference: A bipartisan group of House lawmakers have presented a new bill designed to increase congressional oversight of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its main client, the National Security Agency. Obviously, the bill was sparked by the flood of classified information released by the international fugitive and former intelliegnce contractor Edward Snowden. The…

Snowden Uproar Demoralizes Cyber Warriors: Ex-NSA Chief Hayden

Snowden Uproar Demoralizes Cyber Warriors: Ex-NSA Chief Hayden
Snowden Uproar Demoralizes Cyber Warriors: Ex-NSA Chief Hayden

NATIONAL HARBOR: Media outcry and public uproar over the Edward Snowden revelations have created a deeply demoralizing backlash against the US intelligence community and paralyzed key cybersecurity initiatives, Gen. Michael Hayden — former director of both the CIA and the NSA — said today. “If you look at the psychic effect of Snowden on the…

NSA Privacy Debate ‘Should Have Occurred Long Ago:’ DNI Clapper

WASHINGTON: You could see the war weariness in the face of James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, when he spoke about The Three Ss: Sequestration, Snowden, and Syria. Clapper, speaking before some 450 members of the intelligence community and media, sounded close to wistful when he talked about the furious national debate about privacy and…

Snowden Damage Still Being Assessed; ‘Deepest Of Deep Secrets’ At Risk, Says STRATCOM’s Kehler

Snowden Damage Still Being Assessed; ‘Deepest Of Deep Secrets’ At Risk, Says STRATCOM’s Kehler
Snowden Damage Still Being Assessed; ‘Deepest Of Deep Secrets’ At Risk, Says STRATCOM’s Kehler

UPDATED: With Great Rep. Turner Quote On Snowden WASHINGTON: “The damage assessment is still underway,” about the effects of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency’s monitoring of web and email traffic, a typically cool and careful commander of US Strategic Command told me this morning. But it’s definitely bad. “It’s going to take…