AFA will be hosting the CyberFutures Conference and Technology Exposition with featured speakers from the defense, government and academia sectors. Some of the featured speakers include: Melissa Hathaway, senior adviser to MINERVA from the Harvard Kennedy School; Gordon Snow, assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division; Maj. Gen. Edward Bolton, director of Cyber and Space [...]
Melissa Hathaway, a leader in cybersecurity, will speak at the American National Standards Institute Caucus Luncheon in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12. Hathaway leads her own firm, Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC, and works with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She has held a number of high-profile positions, including senior [...]
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has announced his resignation effective May 28, 2010. Blair will step down after serving 16 months as the nation’s highest Intelligence Community executive. “I have had no greater honor or pleasure than to lead the remarkably talented and patriotic men and women of the Intelligence Community,” Blair said. “Every [...]
Remember the first meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev? Or Nixon and Mao? Now’s your chance to be part of the next historic meeting. This time, it’s about cybersecurity. And it’s no longer enough for politicians to take the lead. Every company — that includes yours — needs to be in on the conversation. From May [...]
Melissa Hathaway, author of the 60-day White House cybersecurity review and former acting senior director for cyberspace at the National Security Council, is promoting the American National Standards Institute and the Internet Security Alliance’s 76-page report “The Financial Management of Cyber Risk.” She writes, “This excellent guide for the C-suite puts forth the right questions [...]
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) was critical of the cyber coordinator’s placement in the executive branch on Tuesday. The OPM is crowd-sourcing an online tool to recruit managers. The open government ball kept on rolling. By Light and InZero are teaming up to fight cyber attacks. Melissa Hathaway joined Core Security Technologies’ Advisory Board. Donna Morea [...]
The past 10 months have been very active in the field of cybersecurity. In May 2009, Melissa Hathaway published her findings from the 60 day Cyberspace Policy Review. In December 2009, President Obama announced that Howard Schmidt would hold the position of Cybersecurity Coordinator at the White House. In January, search engine giant Google announced [...]
