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Headquarters of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, DC., Nov. 4, 2011. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) (Nov. 4, 2011)

HHS gets Navy vet as new cybersecurity chief

Christopher Wlaschin retired after 28 years in the Navy in 2008 as a lieutenant commander and has held a variety of civilian jobs since, including several stints…
Phyllis Schneck speaks at the 2016 Security Through Innovation Summit.

DHS: We won cyber turf wars under Obama

Einstein became a symbol in some ways of DHS’s struggle to assert its authority over the security of federal networks — a fight DHS has won, Schneck…
Man voting on a new touch screen machine in Florida. (Getty Images)

DHS move on election security unlikely to survive transition

The controversial decision by the Department of Homeland Security to designate the nation’s election system as “critical infrastructure” has touched off a firestorm of opposition, and the…
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NIST issues draft update to cyber framework

Federal scientists at the government’s technology laboratory have issued a draft update to their widely adopted Cybersecurity Framework, adding for the first time a way of quantifying…
U.S. Southern Command Commander Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly briefs the media on the latest developments in his command’s efforts to stem the flow of drugs from South and Central America in the Pentagon Press Briefing Room, March 13, 2014. DoD Photo by Glenn Fawcett (Released)

DHS nominee Kelly mixes message on department’s cyber role

Kelly said reorganization and renaming of DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate to improve the department’s cyber capabilities would be a “top priority.”
NSA Information Assurance Director Curtis Dukes speaks at the 2016 Security Through Innovation Summit, sponsored by Intel Security and produced by FedScoop. (FedScoop)

NSA’s Dukes will give ‘international flavor’ to nonprofit CIS

Curtis Dukes, the former head of information assurance at the NSA, says he will work to extend the reach of the nonprofit Center for Internet Security beyond…
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper In a speech at the LBJ Presidential Library on Thursday, Sept. 22nd, 2016, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper discussed national security as we prepare for an election year change in the White House. Following his remarks, Admiral Bob Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of the CIA, and Stephen Hadley, former National Security Advisor, joined Clapper on stage for a conversation moderated by LBJ Library Director Mark Updegrove on the pressing national security issues facing our nation. LBJ Library photo by Jay Godwin 09/22/2016 LBJ Library photo by Jay Godwin 09/18/2016

Spy agencies: We can’t judge impact of hacking on election

U.S. intelligence agencies have no way of measuring the impact of Russian hacking on the recent election result, the nation’s top spy told senators Thursday.
NSA Information Assurance Director Curtis Dukes speaks at the 2016 Security Through Innovation Summit, sponsored by Intel Security and produced by FedScoop. (FedScoop)

NSA’s top cyber-defender leaves after reorganization

Curtis Dukes, the NSA official who headed up its cyber-defenders, the famed Information Assurance Directorate, has left the agency — a few months after IAD was merged…
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