Cybersecurity

Could WikiLeaks set back information sharing?

Former CIA director Michael Hayden says the recent posting of classified material about the war in Afghanistan exposes the risks of information sharing among intelligence agencies. But the government’s use of IT could be a bigger threat to personal privacy.

Cybersecurity

CIA, Google fund Web analysis firm

In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures are investing in Recorded Future, a company whose technology monitors the Web in real time and develops predictions of future events from that content.

Cybersecurity

Military wrestles with cyber war battle planning

The military's new consolidated Cyber Command faces unprecedented challenges as it forges the nation's policies and capabilities for cyber defense and war.

Cybersecurity

Cyber risks place new demands on public/private partnership

Industry and government expect the new Cyber Command to set the agenda for needed improvements in public/private cybersecurity collaboration.

Cybersecurity

Intell chief denies charges of too many contractors

Reacting to a Washington Post series, the director of national intelligence said contractors are key but are not doing inherently governmental work.

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Spymasters in search of forecasting software to enhance intell analysis

The research organization for intelligence agencies wants organizations to propose research to develop methods that provide more accurate, precise and timely intelligence forecasts.

Cybersecurity

Obama rockets to space with new policy

The Obama administration released a new policy for space exploration that calls for maintaining and enhancing space-based positioning, navigation, and timing systems, as well as protecting access to the radio-frequency spectrum.

Cybersecurity

Wanted: A better system for intelligence collection

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity's Smart Collection office wants to fund research into ways to make collected intelligence more valuable.

Cybersecurity

Officers to get guidelines for open-source intell

Officials are drawing up guidance and certifications for people in the country's intelligence agencies who develop open-source intelligence.

Cybersecurity

New worries emerge about Internet monitoring

The prospect of private-sector participation in the the government's latest Einstein 3 Internet monitoring and cyber defense system, even if voluntary, has raised questions about privacy and the technology's supposed superiority over tools that companies might already be using.

Cybersecurity

New DOD cyber commander seeks better situational awareness

Army Gen. Keith Alexander says the Defense Department needs a common, real-time, understanding of what's happening across its many computer networks.

Cybersecurity

White House names new chief of terrorism-related info sharing environment

The Obama administration has named a new leader for an office tasked with improving how agencies share terrorism-related information.

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Director of national intelligence and intell sharing to step down

The country's top intelligence official, who oversees programs to integrate intelligence agencies' information technology, is leaving the post.

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Intell chief wants more information sharing

More integration between collection and analysis capabilities can be achieved by intelligence agencies during the next five years, the country's top intelligence officer said today.

Cybersecurity

DHS releases new details on Einstein 3 intrusion prevention pilot

The Homeland Security Department plans to use another agency and an Internet Service Provider to test capabilities and processes for its planned next generation network security program.

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Information handcuffs: Counterterrorism IT needs support from the top, Congress told

Intelligence agencies face policy and privacy questions as they look to harness IT to fix problems identified after the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt.

Cybersecurity

U.S. would lose a cyber war, former intell chief warns

The country needs to make a national commitment to securing cyberspace before a catastropic attack occurs.

Cybersecurity

Cyber threat growing at unprecedented rate, intell chief says

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair today gave a blunt assessment of the many cyber threats faced by U.S. government and private-sector networks.