The New New Internet conducted an enlightening interview with computer security expert and founder of the executive think-tank Technolytics Institute  Kevin G. Coleman regarding the current state of US cybersecurity. Coleman is frustrated by the lack of government timeliness to cybersecurity, bearing the recent July 4th cyber breach in mind.  Accountability in both the public and private sectors is key […] More

The Sunday Times reports the director of Mossad, Israel“™s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would allow Israeli jets to fly over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran“™s nuclear sites, based on secret talks with Saudi officials in 2002 to discuss the possibility. “The Saudis have […] More

John Osterholz  has been appointed by defense contractor BAE Systems to lead the British company's cybersecurity and cyberwarfare business in the United States. Osterholz will work at BAE’s Reston office and was formerly vice president of advanced network systems.  He will be responsible for developing technology to defend the nation's technology infrastructure and launch cyber counterattacks […] More

Sami Saydjari, founder and President of Cyber Defense Agency and a former NSA fellow with more than 20 years in the field of cyber defense, spoke with The New New Internet regarding the future of cyber security. Comparing Obama’s new emphasis of cyber defense to the space race of the 50s and 60s, Saydjari also agrees with […] More

Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the UK announced the creation of a new national cybersecurity center  by the end of this month. Cybersecurity currently falls under multiple agencies, including the Serious Organized Crime Agency and the Metropolitan Police e-crime unit. The initiative is part of a u-turn in the UK government’s national strategy and an attempt to centralize cybersecurity, as described […] More

Federal CIO Kundra spoke Monday at Wired“™s Disruptive by Design conference in Manhattan about his plan to give American citizens unprecedented access to their government’s raw data by launching Data.gov at the end of the month. Kundra said, “The premise behind behind Data.gov goes to the philosophy around transparency and open government that the president […] More

Keith Fimian, who’s running as the successor to Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA-11th District), got his business education firsthand when he launched U.S. Inspect 21 years ago. Today the company is the largest property inspection company in the United States. In an exclusive interview with ExecutiveBiz, Fimian talks about his plans to continue Davis’s legacy of […] More

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff recently launched a blog in what he hopes will “open a dialogue with the American people about our nation“™s security.“ Started in the middle of September, the blog, described by the Department of Homeland Security as a Leadership Journal, has picked up steam to several posts a […] More

By the time it was reported earlier this week that Sprint CEO Gary Forsee resigned from the company, the news – which had been rumored for some time – held as much shock value as a 2pm traffic jam on I495 . Forsee, who assumed the CEO mantle in 2003, engineered two mammoth corporate moves […] More