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US Dept. of Homeland Security Forms Cybersecurity Hub w/Carnegie Mellon Univ.
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Posted by: TotalRecall
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is teaming up with the Net's top virus-tracking facility to create an organization to fight cyberbugs.
The federal body said Monday that it was partnering with Carnegie Mellon University's CERT Coordination Center to create a new group that would work to prevent, monitor and respond to "cyberattacks" across the Internet. The new US-CERT group is expected to focus on giving companies, digital security groups, federal agencies and others a venue for sharing critical information about security issues.
The new organization hopes to jump-start communication between companies, security researchers, networks and other entities affected by digital security problems, many of which have historically been loath to share detailed information on break-ins by hackers, software vulnerabilities or other security problems.
Posted by: chaosisreality
huh, maybe 10, 15 years ago wasn't there a division of the NSA that dealt with that? I'm gonna look up that name......
Posted by: chaosisreality
Yeah, it was the National Computer Security Center, which was an unclassified agency
wtf happened to them?
Posted by: C-Money
Hey, this is the scoop.
The National Computer Security Center (NCSC) is a U.S. government organization within the National Security Agency (NSA) that evaluates computing equipment for high security applications to ensure that facilities processing classified or other sensitive material are using trusted computer systems and components. NCSC was founded in 1981 as the Department of Defense Computer Security Center and changed to its current name in 1985. The organization works with industry, education, and government agency partners to promote research and standardization efforts for secure information system development. The NCSC also functions in an educational capacity to disseminate information about issues surrounding secure computing, most significantly through its annual National Information Systems Security Conference.
The NCSC's computer evaluation program is carried out by another NSA organization, the Trusted Product Evaluation Program (TPEP), which tests commercial products against a comprehensive set of security-related criteria. NCSC issued the first Department of Defense (DoD) Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC) in August, 1983. The document, more commonly referred to as the "orange book," was reissued in 1985 as a DoD standard that included the stated goals of providing manufacturers with security-related standards regarding features for inclusion in products, and providing DoD components with information about security metrics for the evaluation of trust levels to be accorded various products used for processing sensitive material.
Anyway, the NCSC became a branch of the NSA.
Posted by: chaosisreality
thanks c-money
but if ncsc was to "promote efforts for secure information system development", how the hell did microsoft slip by?
just kidding
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