THE OBSTACLE: THE INFORMATION HOARDER Following the 9/11 attacks, government agencies-particularly the State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency-were lambasted
Casinos have had some success using software and video cameras to recognize card and slot-machine cheats. Picking the right equipment and putting it where it
If ever a problem seemed designed to showcase the value of electronic security to an organization, that problem is spam. Unsolicited e-mail saps productivity and
Headquarters: 3801 Nebraska Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20528 Financials: $40 billion operating budget proposed for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2005. Mission: Prevent and deter
“Non-obvious relationship awareness” (NORA) software probes databases in any language, searching for obscure matches between relevant information. Anonymized data (ANNA) software uses the same technology
Shortly after midnight on Aug. 20, 2003, railroad company CSX was forced to delay several trains because its computer networks were flooded by the Nachi
You know that awful feeling in your gut when champions of a particular cause—such as, say, the need to undergird the industrial base of this
Twenty-five years ago last month, I was at Three Mile Island. I was 21 years old and it was three days after the partial meltdown
Many of the nation’s key defense and security agencies are running their operations on software from companies based outside the U.S. The Department of Homeland