Cybersecurity

Letter: Proactive is better than reactive

A reader writes about the consequences should employee, vendor and customer information is allowed to be breached.

Cybersecurity

Chertoff: Hands off FEMA; upgrade IT

The outgoing secretary opposes carving FEMA out of DHS and wants continued progress on IT programs.

Cybersecurity

Transition Watch Chertoff says wait on DHS revamp

Secretary Michael Chertoff has urged his successor to wait on any reorganization that could increase fear and doubt across the sprawling Homeland Security Department.

Cybersecurity

Audit finds DHS weak in balance sheet reporting

The weaknesses cover financial reporting, general financial and application controls, and budget accounting, the audit states.

Cybersecurity

Letter: Article should have mentioned FFRDCs

A reader says the Homeland Security Institute will be replaced with the Homeland Security Studies and Analysis Institute.

Modernization

DHS will use new privacy protection principles in research

The principles for implementing privacy protections will be used in all new DHS Science and Technology Directorate research projects, including those that involve data mining.