Cybersecurity

• NIST to Establish National Cybersecurity Center for Excellence

  

  NIST will establish a National Cybersecurity Center for Excellence, a public-private collaboration for accelerating integration of computer security solutions.

• NIST Releases Computer Security Response Guide

  

  The National Institute of Standards and Technology published for public comment a guide on managing responses to computer security incidents such as hacking attacks.

• DOE Seeks Senior Cyber Advisor

  

  The Department of Energy is seeking a senior cyber security technical advisor. The position pays between $84,697 and $165,300 per year and is based in Germantown, Md. The job opening will remain until February 27.

• Cybersecurity Act of 2012 Introduced

  

  A bipartisan group of Senate leaders introduced The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 on Tuesday that aims to guard against the nation’s increasing vulnerability to cyber attack by securing the cyber systems of the nation’s essential services.

• GSA Outlines FedRAMP Implementation Timeline

  

  The General Services Administration is taking a phased and calibrated approach to implementing FedRAMP over the next two years, said Dave McClure.

• NIST to Host March FISSEA Cybersecurity Conference

  

  The National Institute of Standards and Technology will host its 25th annual Federal Information Systems Security Educator’s Association conference on March 27 to 29 at the agency’s Gaithersburg, Md. headquarters.

• GSA Releases FedRAMP Concept of Operations

  

  The General Services Administration Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies released the FedRAMP concept of operations document on Tuesday that describes al the services that will be available at the program’s initial operating capability targeted for June 2012.

• Energy to Create Joint Cybersecurity Coordination Center

  

  The Department of Energy is creating a Joint Cybersecurity Coordination Center, a collaborative approach to incident response and risk mitigation across the department, wrote DOE Chief Information Officer Michael Locatis in a new blog post on CIO.gov.

• Panetta: DOD to Cut $259 Billion by 2017

  

  The Department of Defense will request a base operating budget of $525 billion for fiscal year 2013, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said on Thursday.

• VA CIO on Mobility Strategy (AUDIO)

  

  Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Information Officer Roger Baker discussed the agency’s security breeches on Wednesday in a conference call with reporters. At the end of the discussion, Baker took questions, mostly focused on the department’s mobility strategy.

• DHS Releases Supply Chain Security Strategy

  

  Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano released the National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

• NIST Finalizes Cloud Security Publication

  

  The National Institute of Standards and Technology has finalized Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing (NIST Special Publication 800-144) that provides an overview of the security and privacy challenges facing cloud computing.