Chabrow, who retired at the end of 2017, hosted and produced the semi-weekly podcast ISMG Security Report and oversaw ISMG's GovInfoSecurity and InfoRiskToday. He's a veteran multimedia journalist who has covered information technology, government and business.
Provisions of the bill would help develop a skilled government infosec workforce, prioritize federal cybersecurity R&D, improve the transfer of cybersecurity technologies to business and promote cybersecurity education and awareness.
An amendment approved by the House to the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act is seen as preventing recipients from using the scholarship program solely as a bridge to a higher-paying, private-sector job.
"We need government to modernize the laws, adapt them to the cloud and adopt new measures to protect privacy and promote security" Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith says.
There's hope on the horizon. Four straight months of growth in IT services firms' payrolls could be a harbinger that tech employment is set to rise again as the economic recovery takes hold.
The 10 most significant events regarding government cybersecurity in 2009 saw its genesis with the inauguration of a Blackberry-toting chief executive, the most tech-savvy president to occupy the Oval Office.
Past experience as a high-ranking information security official at the White House and at Microsoft is seen as toughing him to advance cybersecurity initiatives against internal adversaries.
The Internet Security Alliance in a new report argues that giving businesses incentives and not regulating them will better safeguard the nation's IT systems.
Melissa Hathaway, who led President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity policy review, says it would be a mistake to place the nation's top cybersecurity adviser in the Department of Homeland Security, as proposed by an influential senator, and not in the White House.
Asked, in an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com...
Government and business must think creatively to help safeguard America's digital assets, says Melissa Hathaway, the former White House acting senior director for cybersecurity who led President Obama's 60-day cybersecurity policy review.
Hathaway, an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com, cited the innovative...
After fingerprints, iris recognition is the second most supported biometric characteristic, and its popularity as a means of authentication is growing.
Patrick Grother is among the computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Technology Laboratory who are collaborating...
Among Gallagher's early challenges as director could be deciding where the institute's IT security research organization, the Computer Security Division, fits within NIST.
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