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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Over 200 Pieces of New Security Research Debut at World-Class Event in Las
Vegas
SEATTLE, July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Black Hat, the world's leading family
of information security events, owned by TechWeb, today announced keynoters
Rod Beckstrom, Director of the National Cyber Security Center, and Ian O.
Angell, Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics,
at this year's...
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TaoSecurity (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Please see Black Hat USA 2008 Wrap-Up: Day 1 for the first part of this two-part post. Day two of the Black Hat USA 2008 Briefings began much better than day one. Rod Beckström, Director of the National Cyber Security Center in DHS, delivered today's keynote. I had read articles like WhiteHouse Taps Tech Entrepreneur For Cyber Defense Post so I wasn't sure what to think of Mr. Beckström....
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
LAS VEGAS--The security issues we face today in cyberspace are the same ones the country faced during the American Civil War when Abe Lincoln was relying on telegraph transmissions to help keep the country united, a top U.S. cybersecurity official said in a keynote speech at the Black Hat security conference here Thursday.Abe Lincoln, "the first wired president," Beckstrom says.(Credit: Rod...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
LAS VEGAS -- The security issues we face today in cyberspace are the same ones the country faced during the American Civil War when Abe Lincoln was relying on telegraph transmissions to help the country united, a top U.S. cyber security official said in a keynote at the Black Hat security conference on Thursday.Abe Lincoln, "the first wired president," Beckstrom says.(Credit: Rod Beckstrom)Lincoln...
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Information Week (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
At his Black Hat keynote on Thursday, Rod Beckstrom, director of the in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, took conference attendees on a ride through his wayback machine to look for guidance about the future of cyber security in America's past. Four months into figuring out just what the NCSC is going to do, Beckstrom came with more questions than answers. He said that we as a...
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InformationWeek - All Stories (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
At his Black Hat keynote on Thursday, Rod Beckstrom, director of the in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, took conference attendees on a ride through his wayback machine to look for guidance about the future of cyber security in America's past. Four months into figuring out just what the NCSC is going to do, Beckstrom came with more questions than answers. He said that we as a...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
By Jordan Robertsonupdated 3:00 p.m. ET Aug. 8, 2008LAS VEGAS - One of the United States' biggest challenges in securing government computers from foreign attacks isn't necessarily technical. The country first needs to figure out how much those networks are worth and how much the U.S. should spend on protecting them, the new Homeland Security official in charge of that effort said Thursday.Rod Beckstrom,...
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Voices - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
... the battlefield, using them to learn about the military strategies and to offer feedback, said Rod Beckstrom, director of the National Cyber Security Center in the Department of Homeland Security. Read the rest of this post
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Physorg (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
(AP) -- One of the United States' biggest challenges in securing government computers from foreign attacks isn't necessarily technical. The country first needs to figure out how much those networks are worth and how much the U.S. should spend on protecting them, the new Homeland Security official in charge of that effort said Thursday.
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Examiner (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
One of the United States' biggest challenges in securing government computers from foreign attacks isn't necessarily technical. The country first needs to figure out how much those networks are worth and how much the U.S. should spend on protecting them, the new Homeland Security official in charge of that effort said Thursday.Rod Beckstrom, director of the newly created National Cyber Security...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
LAS VEGAS—One of the United States' biggest challenges in securing government computers from foreign attacks isn't necessarily technical. The country first needs to figure out how much those networks are worth and how much the U.S. should spend on protecting them, the new Homeland Security official in charge of that effort said Thursday.Rod Beckstrom, director of the newly created National Cyber...
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The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
One of the United States' biggest challenges in securing government computers from foreign attacks isn't necessarily technical. The country first needs to figure out how much those networks are worth and how much the U.S. should spend on protecting them, the new Homeland Security official in charge of that effort said Thursday.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
... on protecting them, the new Homeland Security official in charge of that effort said Thursday.Rod Beckstrom, director of the newly created National Cyber Security Center, an agency responsible for protecting the government's computer networks, was making his first major address to the computer security community. He steered clear of specifics in his hourlong talk at the Black Hat hacker...
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Privacy (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
... security but also institutional security issues. Also slated to appear in a keynote event is Rod Beckstrom, director of the National Cyber Security Center for the Office of Homeland Security. The most anticipated presentation at the show, however, will be IOActive's Dan Kaminsky when he unveils details of the flaw he discovered in Domain Name Service software. The flaw had been kept under...
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Subversive Influence (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Ori Brafman has previously co-written The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations along with Rod Beckstrom. The book was excellent, and I used it in the preparation of my chapter for the first Wikiklesia project , Voices of the Virtual World . I’m sure I’ve mentioned both here before, and my past experience had me looking forward to Ori’s new book, Sway: The...
