Stories about: DISA

Many IT administrators out there thhttps://secure.idg.com.au/admin/index.php?jid=1&l=1ink that deploying virtual servers will make their VMs bulletproof to security vulnerabilities and malicious attacks. But according to virtualization security experts like Edward L. Haletky, IT managers will be surprised to learn at how much more they can to do protect their virtual infrastructure.

The US Defense Information Systems Agency, which provides most of the systems used within the Department of Defense, has been reaching out to a wide range of companies in the belief that their IT approaches -- including the use of cloud computing technologies -- could help DISA better support the military's warfighting men and women.

A teenager identified by U.S. law enforcement officials only as B.D.H pleaded guilty last week to charges that he used botnets to illegally install adware on hundreds of thousands of computers in the U.S., including those belonging to the military.

The U.S. federal government has launched a program that will require federal agencies to insist on security standards from suppliers, a move that some argue will have a far-reaching impact on most large and medium-sized organizations buying PCs.

We all face it - the daily barrage of spam, now infested with zero-day malware attacks, not to mention the risks of malicious insiders, infected laptops coming and going behind our deep packet-inspecting firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems. Some even have to worry about how to prove steps of due care and due diligence towards a growing roster of regulatory compliance pressures.

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is creating the world's largest storage network by combining a number of separate networks into a gigantic 17,000-port Meta SAN monster.

The U.S. federal government is often seen as a laggard in IT, a bloated bureaucracy that runs well behind the innovations of private industry. But look closely and you'll find programs that are truly groundbreaking.

A computer hacker responsible for creating armies of computers to launch Internet-based attacks and selling those "botnets" to spammers and other miscreants pleaded guilty Monday to federal criminal charges in Los Angeles, according to a prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The U.S. Department of Defense this week picked Northrop Grumman to build its US$51 million IP video conference network, based on hardware and software from Cisco and Radvision, network services from AT&T and technology from other partners.

The U.S. Defense Department continues to beef up wireless communications systems in Baghdad and has awarded a US$15.8 million contract to the federal markets division of Motorola Inc. for a radio system in the Iraqi capital for the Baghdad Police Force.

Boosted by the performance of recently acquired McAfee.com Corp. and a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), Network security company Network Associates Inc. Thursday reported a third quarter profit of US$9.1 million, or $0.06 per share.