Last year, I discussed in my commentary how information must be available—as freely as oxygen in the air—to virtually everyone. In presenting this point of view, I offered that power lies in how one ...

Cyber warfare. Critical infrastructure. Increased threat. Information assurance—or information security—is not the endeavor it used to be. The democratization of the Internet has had the same, albeit ...

When the Defense Department mandated adoption of the new DOD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP) in November 2007, the goal was to ensure that all military ...

Information assurance is about assuring information and managing the risks related to the use, processing, storage and transmission of information and its security. A minor in information assurance ...

APM's Richard Pharro discusses CESG's new framework for certifying information assurance specialists Richard Pharro, The APM Group The UK Cyber Security Strategy, published in November 2011 by The ...

At last month’s conference of the Federal Information Systems Security Association, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) of the U.S. Department of Defense presented the latest information ...

It is the responsibility of every organization with an online presence to make sure they protect their data from unwanted access. By now, everyone should be aware of the tremendous damage an ...

The National Security Agency will spend $902 million on information assurance next year, according to an NSA budget request posted on a Department of Defense Web site, providing a rare insight into a ...

The U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms office is looking to hire a cybersecurity professional with “red team experience” who can “manage multi-million dollar annual budgets,” according to a job posting ...

Information assurance (IA) involves practices relating to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data and the systems, processes, and controls — physical, technical, and ...

Information assurance is about assuring information and managing the risks related to the use, processing, storage and transmission of information and its security. A minor in information assurance ...