Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Back Bay Books (January 7, 2002)
ISBN: 0316346624 (available at amazon.com)
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Datamonitor estimates that global spending on firewall and virtual private network (VPN) technology will double over the next three years to reach almost $6bn in 2007.

Source: The Register

The National Cyber Security Division of the Department of Homeland Security, in cooperation with the private sector (Symantec, McAffee, CERT) has begun its effort to take over the role of providing security alerts. The alerts will include announcements about current attacks as well as information for users about how to protect their systems before attacks occur.” Go to http://www.us-cert.gov/ to subscribe online.

1. Government Forum of Incident Response Teams, or G-FIRST: includes officials from the 24-hour watch center within Yoran?s division, the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team, the Pentagon and civilian agencies.
2. Chief Information Security Officers Forum: includes senior officials designated to oversee each agency?s cybersecurity and make sure agencies meet the mandates of the Federal Information Security Management.
3. Cyber Interagency Incident Management Group: includes officials from law enforcement, national security and Defense Department agencies to provide a forum for planning responses to major cybersecurity incidents, he said.