A new state commission will focus on maintaining security of computer systems and data — cybersecurity — for Rhode Island government operations, as well as growing the cybersecurity industry in the state. 

The North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) has named Marcus Sachs as its new chief security officer. 

 According to a federal workforce employee survey, the Department of Homeland Security is the worst place to work in the US government.  

Federal and state enterprises that had been working with G4S Government Services will soon be working with American group Centerra, soon to be the largest American-owned provider of protective services to the Federal Government.

Bill Heffernan, a member of the Australian Parliament, revealed a security flaw in the Parliament building Monday when he was able to successfully smuggle a fake pipe bomb and dynamite sticks in undetected.

According to MeriTalk’s report Shared Services: Ready or Not?, underwritten by ServiceNow, 87 percent of Feds believe that cloud computing has transformed their view of shared services, but just 53 percent use shared services today. Only 44 percent say their agency currently offers IT services to other agencies.