NSA wants even closer partnership with tech industry

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	NSA wants even closer partnership with tech industry The National Security Agency's director of information assurance today said the "way to achieve confidence in cyberspace" is to increase collaboration between the government and the high-tech industry — remarks that rang ironic given former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's revelations about how NSA works with industry. Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: Network World Tech Tours SDN and Network Virtualization event in Philly and Wash. DC Attend and learn how SDN works, its potential in the enterprise, and why leading, bellwether organizations are leveraging it for data center and large-scale networking efficiency- Learn more and register in a city most convenient for you. 9/17- Philly; 10/8- Wash. DC Click to continue In this Issue How do you define a cybersecurity "professional'? The International Security Community Should Embrace the STIX and TAXII Standards Experts praise Pentagon's march to security standards Snowden's role provided 'perfect cover' for NSA data theft US FTC lacks data breach authority, says accused medical lab 'It's a BYOD world' – with a catch -- at New York Law School WHITE PAPER: Dell SecureNetworks CISO's Guide to Advanced Attackers No matter the size of your organization, advanced cyber-attacks represent a credible threat to your organization. Security analyst firm Securoris and Dell SecureWorks collaborated on this guide to help gather intelligence, mine for threat indicators, respond to alerts and break the attack process. Read now! How do you define a cybersecurity "professional'? How or should the cybersecurity workforce be formally professionalized? The National Research Council this week issued a report that looks at the issues around how to professionalize a field it describes as so broad and diverse it could be hard to even treat it as a single occupation or profession. Read More The International Security Community Should Embrace the STIX and TAXII Standards Most experts agree that security technologies based upon signature files (DATs) alone can no longer provide adequate security protection. Why? There is simply too much malware volume so it's harder for the security industry to keep up with the bad guys. Furthermore, polymorphic and metamorphic malware is designed to change its appearance. You can't match a pattern if the pattern keeps changing. ... Read More RESOURCE COMPLIMENTS OF: DameWare®, part of the SolarWinds® Family DameWare® Remote Support Software – Easy, Fast & Affordable Remotely manage servers, desktops and laptops in minutes! With DameWare you can remotely manage key elements of your infrastructure - domains, workstations, disk drives, & event logs. You need to resolve Windows, Mac & Linux problems for your end-users quickly, and DameWare lets you perform various critical system management tasks – remotely! Download a fully functional, free trial today and discover in minutes why thousands of system administrators use DameWare every day! Experts praise Pentagon's march to security standards Consolidation of the Defense Department's 15,000 networks expected to cut costs, as well as improve security against Edward Snowden-like leaks Read More Snowden's role provided 'perfect cover' for NSA data theft Fugitive document leaker Edward Snowden's role as a systems administrator provided easy access to classified NSA documents sitting in a file-sharing location on the spy agency's intranet portal. Read More WHITE PAPER: Good Technology 10 Requirements from Real Customer Deployments Mobile Device Management (MDM) has ushered in on-the-go access to enterprise data, but that convenience has only whetted the appetite of enterprise users. View Now US FTC lacks data breach authority, says accused medical lab The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has no jurisdiction or legal authority to bring a data breach complaint against an Atlanta medical laboratory, the lab said in a response to FTC charges. Read More 'It's a BYOD world' – with a catch -- at New York Law School The "Bring Your Own Device" trend can cause a lot of disruption, but not at New York Law School, the downtown Manhattan college where students, faculty and visitors have always been allowed to use any mobile device they want on the wireless network. But that doesn't mean anything goes. Read More
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