Popular social networking sites including Twitter, MySpace and Facebook are banned from the U.S. Marine Corps for the next year, effective immediately. Other military branches are considering a similar ban. The Marine Corps cited potential security breaches of government computers and malware attacks for the ban. Popular social networking sites have an increased potential for phising and […] More

It“™s been a little over a month since Larry Prior was named president and COO of ManTech International Corporation, and it“™s already clear which title he prefers. “I am first and foremost an operator,“ says Prior. “The chief operating officer cares a lot about top line growth, taking care of people, and executing programs for […] More

Back in May, President Obama stated he would appoint a cyber coordinator to help “orchestrate and integrate all cybersecurity policies.” That was then, this is now; we’re still waiting. Amid speculation about possible candidates and the resignation of acting cyber czar Melissa Hathaway, the guessing game continues. For Jim Lewis of Center for Strategic and […] More

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) announced  a new initiative entitled the U.S. Cyber Security Challenge. With participation from the U.S. Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, the Air Force Association and the SANS Institute, 10,000 tech-savvy high school and college students will compete through a variety of exercises, including live competitions, that challenge their cyber defense skills […] More

A recent report by the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) entitled “Hacking Nuclear Command and Control” found that terrorist organizations have the potential to use the Internet and private network infrastructures to stage a nuclear attack.  “If access to command and control centres is obtained, terrorists could fake or actually cause one nuclear-armed state to attack another, thus […] More

It has been almost two months since the release of the 60-Day Cyberspace Review and President Obama’s historic speech marking cybersecurity as a “strategic national asset”. Yet the cyber coordinator position remains vacant. Some believe this is because there is no direction as to what the role of the cyber coordinator will be in the […] More

Since the new administration took office in January of this year, an emerging trend of large government contractors acquiring cybersecurity firms has come to light. In case you missed it, here is a quick recap of top cyber firm acquisitions over the last few months.  April: Harris Corporation acquires Chantilly, Virginia-based Crucial Security, Inc. Crucial Security Inc. sells offensive […] More

Change of administration is always a challenging time for government contracting as the markets realign in anticipation of where spending will flow and how to best position for the upcoming priorities. The Obama administration change is no exception with Military shifting from hard resources to soft, traditional defense firms shifting from projecting physical space to […] More

The US government has yet to even acknowledge that there was a denial of service attack on government websites as well as private entities such as the New York Stock Exchange and The Washington Post. South Korean delegates are the only persons effected by the attacks to openly accuse North Korea of the denial of service attacks, and […] More

The co-founder and president of Reston-based High Performance Technologies, Timothy Keenan, was named the best Executive of the Year in North America at the International Business Awards (IBA). Keenan competed with over 1,7000 Executive entries from over 30 countries. HPTi provides technical services to the federal government and has a gross revenue of $75 million.  HPTi senior […] More

Vivek Kundra, the Federal Chief Information Officer, has started a blog to accompany the Federal IT Dashboard that was launched just two weeks ago. The blog is designed to start a conversation on the public's views of the site and share information that is not included on the actual IT Dashboard site. According to Kundra, […] More

First came the Federal IT Dashboard “” released just two weeks ago as a “one-stop clearinghouse of information” to track federal IT initiatives. Now comes an accompanying blog. The blog, which debuted Monday, comes on the heels of two weeks of success for the dashboard: some 20 million hits and counting. “But we can't simply […] More