Advancing Innovation Through Collaboration

a Silicon-Valley based organization that works with industry builders, buyers, researchers and investors within the Cybersecurity domain to advance innovation and bring about global collaboration between the public and private sector to defeat Cybersecurity threats.
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The Security Innovation Network ("SINET") is a US-based organization that promotes the advancement of innovation and collaboration in the cyber security domain, and connects buyers, researchers, investors and builders in that space.
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NEWARK, Del., Dec 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Sallie Mae's Chief Security Officer, Jerry Archer, was selected as a recipient of the Information Security Executive (ISE) North America Award 2011.
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The Amphion Forum, a non-profit consortium of organizations seeking to advance the security of the Internet of Things, invites mobile security and device security professionals, and experts from industry and academia, to propose talks for Amphion Forum 2012: Europe.
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Social networking, hacktivism, advanced persistent threats, cyberespionage, mobile malware, the entry of portable, handheld devices (smartphones, tablets) into the enterprise environment...these are just a few of the most prominent challenges security professionals must contend with each day.
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These are frustrating times when it comes to security. It seems as though with each passing day the bad guys get more brazen. In fact, almost every day brings word of yet another security breach. And those are only the ones that get reported.
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It was a difficult week to find a single topic that defined the week. As always, our goal with GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week is to look at an issue - a person - an idea - then helped define the past 7-days... but we also work to find a topic that also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead.
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On August 17, 2009, a 900 ton hydroelectric turbine was torn from its moorings at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant and dam in Russia.
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Military networks and software must be tied to the cloud to defend Defense Department computers against adversaries, the Pentagon's cyber chief said Wednesday night.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Security Innovation Network Showcase 2011 -- The most successful new security companies are those that are young, innovative, and willing to bet big on outside funding, according to research revealed here Wednesday.
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07:12 GMT, October 27, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO & WASHINGTON | The Security Innovation Network (SINET), an organization focused on the advancement of cybersecurity innovation through public-private collaboration, has expanded to create "The SINET Group" which includes a new Member Program and Advisory Services.
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The Security Innovation Network(TM) (SINET), an organization focused on the advancement of cybersecurity innovation through public-private collaboration, has expanded to create "The SINET Group" which includes a new Member Program and Advisory Services.
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Industry is not providing government with the basic tools it needs to build a secure information infrastructure, say military and intelligence officials.
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MENLO PARK, CA, Oct 13, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Silver Tail Systems, Inc., a leading provider of web session intelligence, today announced that it has been selected as a SINET 16 Innovator.
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Narus, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company and the leader in real-time traffic intelligence, announced today that it will present at the SINET Showcase 2011 Conference held October 25-26, 2011 in Washington, DC.
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BOULDER, Colo., Oct.11, 2011 - Symplified, the Cloud security company, today announced that it was selected as an innovator and will present at the 2011 Security Innovation Network (SINET) Showcase, which is supported by the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA. - On the same day consolidation hit the security information and event management market hard, a group of influential industry leaders was busy talking innovation and telling the entrepreneurs in the room to pick up the pace and bring new products to market that address current threats and adversaries.
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Academic tenure discourages educational investment in cybersecurity innovation, Paul Barford, a computer sciences professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as the chief scientist at cloud security specialist Qualys, told the Security Innovation Network (SINET) summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Tuesday.
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The National Protection and Programs Directorate, the Department of Homeland Security agency that handles many of the government's cybersecurity responsibilities is about to get a makeover in the wake of the departure of former deputy undersecretary Phil Reitinger. The directorate, among other things, is in works to secure federal civilian agency networks and coordinate cybersecurity with the private sector.
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BEIJING - Chinese state television has broadcast footage of what two experts on the Chinese military say appears to be a military institute demonstrating software designed to attack websites in the U.S.
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The National Security Agency is on a hiring blitz. The cryptologic intelligence agency - home to the government's chief codemakers and breakers - announced its intention to hire as many as 3,000 people over the next two years, many of them cybersecurity experts.
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The U.S. DoD has formally outlined its positions on cyberspace defense, establishing five strategic approaches as part of the White House's U.S. Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. Cyberspace will be considered an operational domain like land, sea, air and space. That means the military has to operate and defend its networks and prepare for cybermissions and cyberconflict.
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The Pentagon on Thursday revealed that in the spring it suffered one of its largest losses ever of sensitive data in a cyberattack by a foreign government. It's a dramatic example of why the military is pursuing a new strategy emphasizing deeper defenses of its computer networks, collaboration with private industry and new steps to stop "malicious insiders."
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The Pentagon plans on July 14 to release a much-anticipated cyberspace operations strategy that, contrary to some expectations, does not call for militarizing the domain. According to an unclassified draft copy of the framework obtained by Nextgov, the goal is to extinguish any hope enemies may have of accomplishing a destructive attack.
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When email-marketing firm Epsilon Data Management discovered in March that hackers had stolen consumer email addresses it maintains for major banks and retailers, Chief Executive Bryan Kennedy faced a choice: to disclose the breach or keep it under wraps.
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When Microsoft and Pfizer got fed up with the nastiest junk e-mail blaster on the Web, they called Silicon Valley's cybercrime vigilante

Alex Lanstein stared at the 65-inch computer monitor in the living room of his Boston apartment. Streaming data lit up the screen, the actions of a cyberlord giving orders to his botnet, a zombie army of hijacked computers controlled from an unknown location . It was early in the morning of Mar.16. The 25-year-old cybersecurity analyst had spent months preparing for the events soon to unfold. His reddish hair still matted down from sleep, Lanstein stood up and poured another cup of coffee. Suddenly, the data stream flickering on the monitor became dark, and a smile curled across Lanstein's stubbly face. Operation Rustock had begun.
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6/16/2011 - PARIS (AFNS) -- Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III outlined a pilot program here June 16 in which the government helps the defense industry in safeguarding the information their computer systems hold.
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According to the Security Innovation Network, there are more than 1,000 U.S. companies in over 165 categories providing cyber security solutions. Rather than trying to enumerate and evaluate all of these highly varied approaches in their entirety, we are providing a taxonomy and scorecard for only those solutions aspiring to directly impact cyber security versus indirectly focused purposes such as compliance.

The fundamental truth is that we need to materially improve cyber security technology. So, the next question is: what should this wondrous technology that we so direly need be capable of, and how are we going to build it?
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Sony, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Iranian State sites..as the hacking continues through Web applications, one has to wonder who's on first? With over 250M websites out there, most of which are insecure, hackers have a huge playground to work with. Inertia, budget, and lack of knowledge are the common reasons behind lack of efforts in securing websites. If the risk of getting hacked isn't enough of a motivating factor, what would drive companies to protect their Web infrastructure? What about regulations?
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"At the center of national cybersecurity policy for the last decade has been the voluntary partnership between government and the private sector. But this marriage is well past its honeymoon period. After all the vows to love each other and stay committed, it has turned out to be harder in practice than either side expected."
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The day after the U.S. military's cyber commander publicly touted the security benefits of shifting to cloud computing, one of the world's leading information security companies announced the theft of some of its cloud computing security technology.
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In a recent survey of security executives, over 70 percent of respondents acknowledged that they are testing less than 10 percent of their Web applications. In the same survey majority of them also confessed that they had been hacked at least once in the last two years. I have heard similar responses in my conversations with various companies. While most large companies have started to test more and more of their applications for vulnerabilities, we have a long way to go. You are as strong as your weakest link and in this case it's your weakest and vulnerable applications.
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As the number of Web sites reaches over 255 million and Internet users reach 2 billion, hackers continue to relentlessly attack at the Web application level. Exploiting SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting, Session Hijacking, Weak Passwords, and other vulnerabilities, they seek the low hanging fruit. No one is spared. Universities, Banks, Government Agencies, e-Retail companies, high-tech companies, and social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook have all been victims of repeated attacks. Businesses have lost billions of dollars in these breaches. Hacktivism and Cyberterrorism have become common among the Anonymous group and the Iranian Cyber Army has been more active in the last few months.
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Cyber security isn't as sexy as social media among venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. But it's a critical technology sector that has been gaining momentum with the economic recovery and the rising threats from cyber criminals. ITSEF 2011 drew around 300 people and it was the fifth annual gathering that brings together security technologists and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley with policy makers from Washington D.C. The government and big corporations are often the main customers for innovative new technologies in the security sector and those customers want more technology faster.
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About 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies surveyed recently said they expect 15 percent or more of their applications to move to the cloud in the near future, Sarah Friar, managing director at Goldman Sachs, said Wednesday at ITSEF.
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Three Maryland businessmen have formed a new investment firm focused on acquiring or backing local cybersecurity businesses.
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Robert Rodriquez, chairman and managing principal at the Security Innovation Network, explains how the ITSEF conference encourages collaboration between federal cyber leaders and entrepreneurs, researchers and investors on cybersecurity innovation.
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Robert Rodriguez, founder of the Security Innovation Network (SINET) says, "The time is yesterday to explore and invest in new collaboration models." SINET unites cyber entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, government experts and academics to bring together entrepreneurs and academics who create cyber capabilities with those who can implement them. Stanford University is also a sponsor of and supporter of SINET.
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As keynote speaker for SINET's October 27 and 28 event, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff punctuated the immensity and severity of the cyber threat, saying among many important messages, that " without security we can't have privacy."
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Chertoff worries that these risks haven't yet gripped the public imagination; that it may take a " digital 9-11" to get businesses, consumers, and governments to fortify their defenses.
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Major vendors dominate industry revenue, but startups and emerging vendors are the ones behind real change, panelists say
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Gaining " Internet superiority " in these days of electronic commerce and potential electronic warfare is the same as getting " air superiority " was in World War II, said a former Secret Service agent and founder of an organization focusing on advancing IT security innovation in private industry and government markets.
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Robert Rodriguez, a former Secret Service special agent and founder of the Security Innovation Network, said the WikiLeaks incident has the potential to put the skids on information-sharing inside the intelligence communities. The incident could result in a policy that will "create more stovepipes instead of more open information-sharing," he said
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A former Secret Service agent has gone from protecting the President and foreign dignitaries, to working for the greater good promoting and facilitating government and industry collaboration on cybersecurity.
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The first step to formulating an organized response is to define cyberwar correctly, said Robert Rodriguez, a former Secret Service special agent and founder of the Security Innovation Network. Calling what's gone on in recent years a "cyberwar" only complicates things, he said.

Small companies at a Stanford University conference (ITSEF) showcased new computer network defenses for potential partners

John Stewart, Cisco Systems' chief security officer, spent St. Patrick's Day looking for cybersecurity innovations.

Technology companies that include Cisco (CSCO), Oracle (ORCL), and eBay's (EBAY) PayPal division descended on Stanford University on Mar. 17 for a conference designed to introduce security startups to industry and government officials. Computer network gear maker Cisco was scouting out small technology companies whose products can help steel its own network against what Stewart says has been a barrage of attempted hacking attacks.
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The U.S. government is stepping up recruitment of engineers who can help wage cyberwar
Kyle Osborn does a good job impersonating a technical support rep. On a recent day in Southern California, the 19-year-old is working the phones, trying to persuade people on the other end to download malicious software.
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Recent research shows clearly that our critical infrastructure is under repeated cyberattack often from high-level adversaries like foreign nation-states. In fact the estimated cost from downtime, caused by major attacks, exceeds $6M per day. It's now confirmed: Our critical infrastructure is under repeated cyberattack from high-level adversaries.

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The federal government plans to ramp up cybersecurity spending over the next several years, but deploying new technologies in this area could face some internal challenges, according to a new report by a market research firm.
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Robert is on the right track with his innovative thinking. The internet is like the "wild wild west" and the United States has a great opportunity to maintain an innovative advantage through collaborating, instead of thinking of it as a competition. We need a new approach to maintain our cyber world.
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"Last year . . . NSA came out and folks in DoD and DHS, DNI, etcetera. They are looking for innovation. I think 46 percent of the companies that attended last year came from out of state, 86 percent of them wanted to partner with the government, but they don't know how, who, what, where or when. . . . They've been discouraged by venture capitalists and others that invest in these companies because the sales cycles can be anywhere from a year to two to three. The government needs help and I think that these innovators and entrepreneurs and the early stage emerging companies in cyber can help them."
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Discussion with Robert Rodriguez on hardware counterfeiting problems.
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Nextgov spoke with SINet founder Robert Rodriguez about a week before the forum about the state of collaboration between government and business. Rodriguez retired from federal government in 2004 after serving in the Secret Service for more than two decades and heading the San Francisco Electronic Crimes Task Force, which established working relationships among government, public, private and international stakeholders to establish strategies for better protecting computer infrastructures.
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For some years, I've been following the world of academic and industrial research on information security, especially interdisciplinary research. There is wide-spread agreement on what needs to be done. But no one seems to be able to mobilize any signficant research into solutions. It's been very frustrating to see so much talk and so little action.
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Fear, uncertainty and doubt is an integral part of the security industry. Vendors sell FUD, the media loves reporting it, and trade shows thrive on it.

So it's not surprising that the RSA Security Conference held here this week had vendors, analysts and assorted others serving up huge dollops of FUD.

But two themes in particular appeared to be fueling much of the trepidation at this year's show: the recent attacks against Google, and the change being forced on enterprise security models by the increasing adoption of mobile and Web 2.0 technologies by end users.

An important theme within the conversation at RSA Conference 2010 has been finding ways for the government and private industry to better collaborate when it comes to fighting cyberthreats.
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It's always a pleasure to speak to my good friend and business associate Robert as he is able to explain our nations need for security innovation better then anyone I know - while giving direction to start-up companies on what it takes to get out there and start doing business with the government.
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Robert Rodriguez thinks there are plenty of innovative ideas emanating from American entrepreneurs to secure information systems that those responsible for federal government cybersecurity haven't heard of.
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As investigators study whether Chinese schools played a role in attacks on Google and other U.S. companies, they may face a new challenge: the need for cooperation in China.

A series of online attacks on Google and dozens of other American corporations have been traced to computers at two educational institutions in China, including one with close ties to the Chinese military, say people involved in the investigation.
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