Cybersecurity
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At least three states have taken action following the cyber attack, which exposed sensitive personal and medical information. Hackers accessed a company network during a nearly three-month period. -
Federal lawmakers reactivated the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program earlier this month — but the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees it, is in partial shutdown.
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The city currently cannot process some online credit card payments, because of a cyber attack on one of its payment gateway providers. Officials are working to stand up a secure alternative solution.
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"They wanted to prevent the users from making any changes whatsoever to the system or applications, no addition of new software or drivers, no Internet access, and complete safety from all forms of malware, worms, viruses and keyloggers"
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VA will provide one year of free credit monitoring to people whose sensitive personal information may have been stolen in the recent data theft incident
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Credit monitoring and fraud watch services for veterans will increases costs to the FY 2006 VA information technology account
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Partnership of government, industry and academia
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"The photo database will continue to grow, thereby increasing the benefit to law enforcement in identifying known and unknown suspects"
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"There is a growing need for data sharing and reuse of resources and services within and across organizations"
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The majority of technology, media and telecommunications companies surveyed consider themselves "reactive" when it comes to investing in information security, and only 4 percent believe they are doing enough to address the problem
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Preliminary review of the equipment by computer forensic teams determined that the database remains intact
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IT innovation by agencies, cities, counties, schools and universities throughout the state.
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People on St. John will no longer have to travel to St. Thomas to search these public documents
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Only 6 percent of the organizations were able to provide new employees or contractors with access to all the applications or systems they require on their first day of work
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"This new tool strengthens America's ability to better prepare for emergencies such as manmade and natural disasters"
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Illinois among the first states to combat "pretexting"
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"I have set a goal that the majority of Rhode Islanders should have health information available to them electronically by 2010"
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Training will focus on the areas of victim assistance, identity theft rings, prosecution of offenders and criminal law
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From employees who may be unaware that they are violating state IT security policy to purveyors of botnets and spyware -- the state IT threat environment is ever-mutating at an accelerated pace
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"Our priority is to keep terrorists out of the United States by preventing them from boarding international flights"
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"Concern for privacy and security make him well suited to take on the role of chief privacy officer for the Department of Commerce"
