The Department of Homeland Security is in the home stretch of deploying a new threat detection cybersecurity tool — Einstein, version two — across federal networks, and the agency is already hard at work designing an even more advanced version, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said last week. In a speech …

The U.S. Cyber Command is analyzing traffic across government and military networks in a central database and will use the analysis to bolster threat detection efforts, according to a report on Nextgov. “One of the things that I’m going to try to do is bring these data feeds in from …

They’re called the Influencers — the top leaders in government cybersecurity and IT, selected by cyber site GovInfoSecurity. The site, which polled its advisory board and other IT thought leaders, said a true influencer is born from “a combination of position and know-how,” and each of those selected “has demonstrated …

The Office of Management and Budget is setting deadlines for agency chief information officers to implement monitoring software, according to budget documents obtained by Federal News Radio. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra sent agency CIOs guidance as part of the 2012 budget request in December. The continuous monitoring mandate …

In a high-profile move recently, the Department of Homeland Security canceled SBInet, a $1 billion border program, long under a microscope for underperforming. But don’t count high-tech border surveillance programs out just yet. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection last week issued a request for information from industry about “insight” …

After months of speculation and guessing games, more than $1 billion spent and a mere 53 miles of the Southwest border covered, the Department of Homeland Security canceled the virtual border fence program known as SBInet. “SBInet cannot meet its original objective of providing a single, integrated border security technology …

The Intelligence Community’s efforts to strengthen cybersecurity got a billion-dollar upgrade last week. The National Security Agency, along with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, broke ground last Thursday on a plot in Utah that eventually will become a one million square-foot, $1.2 billion state-of-the-art data center on the grounds …

The Saturday shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), which killed six people, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and wounded 14 others, according to police, has spurred reactions across the federal government and Congress. USA Today reports political leaders across the spectrum and throughout the halls of government …

While many people were celebrating the New Year, the Department of Homeland Security was marking the end of Critical Infrastructure Month. The month-long campaign’s purpose was to raise awareness about the vital role protecting things such as telecommunications networks, nuclear and chemical facilities, and transportation systems plays in U.S. national …