15 August 2003
Volume 1, Number 1

Welcome to our First Edition

Jeff Erlichman Executive Director Public Sector Institute

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Like this jet protects against physical threats, the Cyber Warning Information Network warns of online evildoers.

With worldwide Black Hats indulging themselves during the July 4 weekend in a "first-ever" web site "Defacers Challenge," the ongoing rollout of the new Cyber Warning Information Network appears more than just timely.

The private IP, non-classified C-WIN alert and analysis system is one of the first post-9/11 systems constructed that perceives the Internet as a potential "soft target" for cyber terrorists and other online evildoers. more...

66 new Joint Terrorism Taskforces are operating from regional FBI offices.

Increasingly, the post-Sept. 11 world we live in is defined by a spiraling requirement for multi-agency cooperation spanning federal, state and local spheres. At the tip of this ever-sharpening homeland security spear are 66 new Joint Terrorism Taskforces (JTTFs) operating from FBI regional offices. more...

When it comes to doing business with Uncle Sam, there is no one recipe

Take some patience, commitment and perseverance. Add the appropriate amount of effective marketing and sales. And viola! You'll win government business. But what is the exact recipe needed for each government opportunity? At FBC's Fed Channels (held on July 16, 2003), federal marketing experts offered their advice. more...

You have until Thursday to comment on FIPS-199. FIPS-199 is a new process for categorizing non-classified IT systems in nine different risk "boxes" drafted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

According to Ron Ross, NIST's director of the National Information Assurance Partnership, FIPS-199 "is part of the NIST effort to give federal agencies guidance on the level of security controls they need in meeting the classic security areas of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability."  more...