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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Broadcasters have converged on a new digital ecology. One issue at the leading edge of network convergence is information assurance, or IA, the new term for information security. As a troubleshooter ...

Although often overshadowed by the far bigger Signals Intelligence Directorate, IAD’s mission of protecting sensitive information on government networks is more important than ever. Identity ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...