In Simulation, Government Reels From Cybershock – CQ Homeland Security
This time, it really was a killer app. Former members of the George W. Bush and Clinton administrations drew some real-life conclusions from a massive, make-believe cyber-attack Tuesday.
Congress are you listening? DOD Energy Leader Needed Now – DOD Energy Blog
It appears that the Obama Administration is close to formally announcing a nominee for the Department of Defense (DOD) Director of Operational Energy Plans and Programs. The Director of this office will have the opportunity to significantly impact the energy security for our military and the entire country, which makes swift confirmation by the Senate all the more important.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, which has ported over the 9/11 Commission co-chairs, Lee Hamilton and Tom Keane, is coordinating the major cyber exercise this week. The U.S. Government has conducted closed versions of cyber war games several times before, and the results are held very closely. At other times, cyber attacks have been injected into broader exercise scenarios but almost always are abandoned because it “ruins” the wider training value. That means cyber brings the entire show to a halt because we really do not know how to deal with it.
Former Clinton, Bush Officials to Gather in D.C. for Simulated Cyber-Attack – CQ Homeland Security
One of the most worrisome questions in the national security world is what would happen if the nation were struck by a large-scale, coordinated cyber-attack. A group of former officials from the George W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations are going to try to provide an answer next week.
Like most people of the Mid-Atlantic region, I’ve spent almost a week hunkered down at home with my family watching the piles and piles of global warming stack outside my home. For as unprecedented as this weather pattern has been for the region, it has been a remarkable test of the region’s resilience. While the jury is still out on a final evaluation (since the last snow flake has yet to fall), here are some things we have learned.
Feds Will Spur Smart Grid Cyber-Security Investment Growth to $21 Billion by 2015, Report Claims – Government Technology
Utility companies around the world will invest $21 billion in smart grid security efforts between 2010 and 2015, according to estimates released in a new report.
IBM has a new cybersecurity white paper. The paper’s executive summary, which I co-authored and is posted below, is titled Meeting the Cybersecurity Challenge: Empowering Stakeholders and Ensuring Coordination. The issues, challenges and possible paths to greater national cybersecurity named in the summary are important concepts. Through a comprehensive, wide-spread cybersecurity effort, all individuals, businesses, organizations, agencies and corporations can play a part in achieving greater national security.
Sen. Schumer calls out Napolitano over elimination of anti-terrorist Coast Guard unit – NY Daily News
Sen. Chuck Schumer called out Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Sunday, protesting an Obama Administration plan to eliminate an anti-terrorist Coast Guard unit that keeps watch over the city’s harbor.
NIST Issues Expanded Draft of Smart Grid Cyber Security Strategy For Public Review and Comment – Smart Grid Blog
The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued today the second draft of its Smart Grid Cyber Security Strategy and Requirements.
On Tuesday morning, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV) lashed out at Senate Republicans for their on-going procedural holds on a number of the Obama Administration’s nominees for critical positions at the Pentagon, DHS and elsewhere. The only measure that counts in the homeland arena is doing the job, and it’s long past time for the Senate to do its job when it comes to voting on a number of critical nominees.
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