ARCHIVED 11/19/09

To view the original article please click here. U.S. CYBERSECURITY CAN HALT 80% OF ATTACKS AT BEST Kenneth Corbin, Internetnews.com, 11/19/2009 Senior government officials overseeing the nation’s cyber defenses told a Senate panel this morning that agencies are doing more to coordinate their far-ranging efforts, but that even in the best-case scenario, the hackers are often […]

ARCHIVED 11/19/09

To view the original article please click here. SENATE PANEL: 80 PERCENT OF CYBER ATTACKS PREVENTABLE Kim Zetter, Wired, 11/17/2009 If network administrators simply instituted proper configuration policies and conducted good network monitoring, about 80 percent of commonly known cyber attacks could be prevented, a Senate committee heard Tuesday. The remark was made by Richard Schaeffer, […]

ARCHIVED 11/17/09

To view the original article please click here. OBAMA ADMINISTRATION UNSURE ABOUT NEW CYBERSECURITY LAWS Grant Gross (IDG News Service), PC World, 11/17/2009 Current laws addressing cyber crime aren’t adequate to address growing attacks on the government and businesses, a representative of U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration said Tuesday. “Are all of you, or any of […]

ISA Discusses Joint ANSI/ISA Project To Develop An Enterprise Wide Cybersecurity Framework

Internet Security Alliance (ISA) President Larry Clinton will describe the progress being made in the joint ANSI/ISA project to develop an enterprise wide cybersecurity framework Wednesday afternoon at the 8th Plenary of the Homeland Security Standards Panel in Washington DC. Two years ago, DHS Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity Gregory Garcia charged ISA and ANSI to […]

DR and ISA Met With Members Of The European Commission

Direct Computer Resources, Inc. (DCR) and the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) met with members of the European Commission to Promote World Wide Cyber Security and Information Protection. DCR’s President Joe Buonomo led a delegation this week from the ISA responding to a request from the European Commission (EC) for assistance in developing apublic private partnership to […]

State Department Sends Larry Clinton To Estonia

At the request of the US State Department ISA President Larry Clinton will visit the NATO Cyber Center of Excellence in Estonia the week of October 4, 2009 to lecture and discuss cyber security theory and practice. After completing his schedule in Estonia Mr. Clinton has been independently invited to travel to Brussels for meetings with […]

Education’s Critical Role In Cybersecurity

By Larry Clinton (Educause) Larry Clinton is President/CEO of the Internet Security Alliance. He is a member of the “Experts Panel” created by the General Accountability Office (GAO) at the request of the House Committee on Homeland Security to assess cybersecurity and make recommendations to the Obama Administration. Comments on this article can be posted […]