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(ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)

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The (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB) is a group of federal IT security experts from government and industry that provides contributed editorial on a variety of information security-related topics.

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VA Controversy: Risk Management is a “Work in Progress”
A controversy concerning the information security policies at the US Department of Veterans Affairs was reported by Federal News Radio last week, and while it is dangerous to draw conclusions from leaks that precede scheduled congressional hearings, and doubly dangerous when those leaks are ass ...
Posted 10 June 2013 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: risk management, VA, ATO, NIST, continuous monitoring, POAM
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Defining “Equity” in the World of Critical Infrastructure Security
For several sessions in a row, federal cybersecurity legislation has been stalled while a squadron of lobbyists debate whether mandated compliance with federal standards will help or hinder IT security efforts in the private sector. The Administration is concerned that voluntary compliance will not ...
Posted 29 May 2013 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: critical infrastructure, compliance, public sector
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Liability and the “Commercially Reasonable” Standard
When new technology introduces new legal questions, it can take a long time for courts to sort matters out, and cybersecurity is no exception to the rule. Cyberattacks that yielded major breaches of financial companies in 2008 or 2009 have spawned a series of lawsuits that aim to determine liability ...
Posted 20 May 2013 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: (ISC)2, NIST, FFIEC, Cybersecurity, federal IT, compliance
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Of Sequestration & Cybersecurity Frustrations…
With sequestration cuts underway across the federal government, and the plight of the federal information security workforce being traditionally viewed as non-mission essential, one can only hope that the historically underfunded budgets of the federal CISO will survive the carving knives of the seq ...
Posted 29 March 2013 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: sequestration, cybersecurity
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Finally, a Step Forward in Cybersecurity
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Posted 21 February 2013 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: cybersecurity, executive order, Obama, education
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A New Starting Point: Re-booting to Help Transition Veterans
  Going back as far as 2007, the (ISC)² Government Advisory Board (GAB) along with the ISSA-Northern Virginia Chapter Board, have been attempting to develop partnerships with veterans’ organizations in an effort to support veterans transitioning to a civilian career in informat ...
Posted 12 September 2012 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: veterans, information security, career development, cybersecurity
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Is it Time to License Cyber Security Professionals?
At the 2012 Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) last month, a speaker from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), National Cyber Security Division, provided a glimpse of a study that was being pursued with the National Academy of Science. The ...
Posted 09 July 2012 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: security training, education
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Changing Workforce Dynamics: Unleash the Power of the Professional Community
By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)   The title of a recent InformationWeek article, “Skills Shortage? Quit Whining” caught our attention. In the article, the author highlights data from a recent Deloitte Consulting survey, which report ...
Posted 19 April 2012 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: training, education, public sector, cybersecurity
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State and Local Governments Saying ‘Bye-bye’ to CISOs?
By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB) At a recent GOVERNING Conference in DC, state and local jurisdictions discussed the recent collapse of agency information technology (IT) staffs in an effort to save scarce financial resources. Among the reported casu ...
Posted 17 March 2012 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: CISO, public sector
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Should Cybersecurity be Treated as a Profession? Your Opinion Counts
By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB) It takes many, many years for a business area of focus to emerge as a recognized profession. Certainly, cybersecurity is moving in that direction. How does one know? When the US government launches an initiative like t ...
Posted 16 December 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: cybersecurity, education, training
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“Testing the Testers”: Certification and Cloud Computing
By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)   Cloud computing is becoming ubiquitous throughout the federal government, and while the adoption of this technology may be more widespread in the private sector, the rigor and transparency provided by the FISMA ...
Posted 19 October 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: cloud computing, FISMA, ediscovery, NIST standard
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So, What Makes You a Cyber ‘Expert’?
By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)   How many cybersecurity practitioners have had a colleague either in information technology (IT), or worse yet, from an unrelated field, offer advice on security matters and insist that they are a cybersecur ...
Posted 22 August 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: cybersecurity
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Federal Agency Recognizes Information Security as a Separate, Distinct Career Field – But it’s not OPM
  By the (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)   In a recent article, "Infosec Joblessness Remains Steady, at 0%", Govinfosecurity.com editor, Eric Chabrow, discussed the startling fact that employment in the information security analyst car ...
Posted 26 July 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: public sector, security
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Make the wrong career move, and you just may become structurally unemployed
A recent Washington Post article, “The great jobs mismatch”, points out that structural unemployment is caused by a mismatch between types of positions available and those who have the wrong skill sets to meet them. The information technology area, particularly information security, has ...
Posted 30 June 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: cybersecurity
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The Human Factor Reigns Supreme!
Do you know who has access to your computer? Many agencies and corporations spend a majority of their budgets on new technological security software gimmicks while forgetting the human factor. Personnel security must be included as an integral part of information security. All of the technological ...
Posted 09 June 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: security, insider threat
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What, if Any, Cybersecurity Workforce Implications Resulted From the Averted Government Shutdown?
While the Federal Government shutdown was averted thanks to some last-minute political gerrymandering and concessions by both sides of the aisle, it’s quite instructive to reflect on the implications of shutdown on the federal cybersecurity workforce, including contracts and contractors. More ...
Posted 12 May 2011 by (ISC)² U.S. Government Advisory Board Executive Writers Bureau (EWB)
tags: cybersecurity, public sector, federal budget
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