The company that helps the Chinese government trample freedom of speech and expression by willingly censoring the search results of Chinese citizens, now wants the U.S. government to treat Internet restrictions around the world as “international trade barriers.”

When will they get the moral courage to do the right thing?

Will accountability and national cyber security ever meet?

This is the first installment of a new video column I’m producing for Homeland Defense Week.

Organized cybercrime groups, particularly the merchants of spyware, have become really organized in the last few years — as in punching a virtual clock from 9 to 5. And according to Symantec Corp.’s Kevin Richards, an increasing percentage of spyware and other forms of malware that security researchers are discovering ...

Senator Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) introduced yet another anti-spyware bill in the Senate last week. That makes three anti-spyware bills introduced in Congress in as many months, and while some in the high-tech industry are skeptical of Congress’ ability to pass any anti-spyware legislation this year, I found two people in ...

If you think secure online collaboration is an impossibility, you may want to talk to Exostar. They’ve built a secure online collaboration network for some of the biggest names in the aerospace and defense industries. And there’s no reason that other verticals can’t take advantage of the Exostar approach.

It’s been called an unfunded mandate and a train wreck, but Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (a.k.a. HSPD-12), which makes it the policy of the U.S. government to conduct background checks on all employees and issue a common access smart card for both physical and network access, is likely to foster one of the most significant improvements in security in the last decade.

Lavasoft’s Michael Helander and Jane Whitty help us make sense of the two competing anti-spyware bills making their way through Capitol Hill, and they share their thoughts on why neither one is likely to pass the Senate or become law this year.

This is the first part in a series of ...

A prototype next generation military vehicle known as the Ultra has been sitting in a warehouse for the past year instead of helping to save the lives of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sean Farazad, CEO of COMDEX Inc., says the future of the IT security and homeland security market is in the Middle East. And so this socially conscious business executive is helping countries in the region tackle everything from oil exploration to secure visas and passports.

The failure of the U.S. government to effectively communicate American values overseas, coupled with the lack of social responsibility on the part of big American business, is helping to foster the conditions that terrorist organizations leverage to recruit new members, at least according to two former top CIA officials and a leading U.S. business executive.

If you do business overseas, or plan to, especially in France, China, India or Israel, you should watch this interview. Robert Richer is the former associate deputy director for operations at the CIA. The Directorate of Operations manages the CIA’s clandestine service. Richer, who is now the CEO of Total ...

Ambassador Cofer Black is probably best known as the former director of the CIA Counterterrorist Center. And Robert Richer is probably not known — and for good reason — as the CIA’s former Associate Deputy Director of Operations (a role in which he helped manage the agency’s clandestine service).

Well, ...

Eric Olson is director of product management at PureTech Systems. We spoke during the recent GOVSEC conference in Washington, D.C., about his company’s unique video surveillance technology. This is a Red Team Production.

I caught up with Pat Schambach, the former CIO at the Transportation Security Administration who now works for Nortel Government Solutions, at the recent GOVSEC show in Washington, D.C.

We talked information sharing, security since 9/11, and other good stuff. This interview was filmed at the HSToday booth. This is a ...

This is Google with brains — Agent Logic, an Arlington, Va.-based company supported by the CIA’s venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel, was born from a very simple idea: can Web page update alerts be automated?

Well, of course they can. But Agent Logic took the concept to a new level, delivering alerts ...

The PIVMAN System by CoreStreet Ltd., consists of server software and handheld devices designed to allow authorized personnel the ability to control access to any site with confidence by quickly authenticating and validating the roles and identities of individuals wishing to enter an area.

Alion Science and Technology Corp. is launching a push to expand its presence in the school security market by offering first responder organizations and school officials its Response Information Folder System (RFIS).

The company has been working for the past year with universities and high schools in Virginia, and plans to ...

The following fashion show took place between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. at the recent GOVSEC Expo in Washington, D.C.

Here is a lighter look at government homeland security.

MXI Security, a division of Memory Experts International, has bolstered standard two-factor security authentication (something you know and something you have) with biometrics that add a third factor to the security equation — something you are.

I recently discussed MXI’s secure mobile USB devices with the company’s U.S. Federal Director, Brian ...

Imagine a world in which SWAT teams and local police departments could rehearse responding to shootings and other crises on school campuses using a real-time virtual environment that replicates the school building precisely?

Well, that capability exists, and through state-of-the-art PC-based gaming technology, entire SWAT teams or police departments can take ...

When was the last time you saw a technology that really was good for both security and business? Exactly. It’s probably been a long time.

Two days after the worst shooting spree in the nation’s history, at Virginia Tech, the University of Maryland at College Park contacted Roam Secure Inc. and asked the company to deliver a proposal for a wireless emergency text messaging system. Within 48 hours, the company delivered a system that now enables university officials and local emergency responders to notify within minutes more than 35,000 students, teachers and family members of developing emergencies.

Have you ever wondered how realistic the hit Fox televison show, “24″ is, or what it’s like to be a real member of the CIA’s clandestine service? Or what a 35-year veteran of the CIA thinks about technology’s impact on the art of espionage, protecting information from competitors and rogue ...

Marcus Sachs is the deputy director of SRI International’s Computer Science Laboratory. In that role, he directs the operations of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Security Research and Development Center.

On May 1, I met with the former White House Director for Communication Infrastructure Protection in his Arlington-based office overlooking ...

The IT security industry, represented at the recent CSIS Conference on 9/11 legislation and the private sector, told staff members of the House and Senate homeland security committees that allowing the Department of Homeland Security to set preparedness standards — particularly Internet security standards — for private companies — would be a big mistake.