-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Information_technology] Daily News 11/06/02 Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:41:16 -0600 From: "NIPC Watch" <nipcwatch@private> To: "Information Technology" <information_technology@private> November 5, Government Computer News Homeland Security staff studies data analysis tools. The Homeland Security Office is evaluating applications to let agencies analyze links and relationships among information sets without breaching privacy laws or sparking interagency turf battles. Steve Cooper, the office's CIO, said yesterday that the goal of the current tests is to validate a data-sharing concept. The premise is that to better track information on possible security threats, agencies must at minimum share information about their data, he said at the Industry Advisory Council's Executive Leadership Conference. But fear of breaking privacy laws and the sense of ownership many agencies exhibit toward their data often keep the government from consolidating or even tracking information in useful ways, Cooper said. The actual pooling of data might not be necessary because simply knowing what types of data agencies are gathering ought to help intelligence analysts identify information sources related to possible threats, Cooper said. Source. http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/20428-1.html November 4, Federal Computer Week NSA taps vendors for encryption. Gigabit Ethernet encryptors will support secure exchange of information. A Defense Department analyst at the Pentagon is working on a top-secret case and needs to quickly exchange a large amount of information with a colleague in the intelligence community on the other side of the country. But the only tools available that are fast enough to accommodate the data transfer are commercial IP-based networks. Today, analysts have reached an impasse. But the National Security Agency is working to break that roadblock. NSA recently selected three vendor teams to compete to develop Gigabit Ethernet encryptors (GigEE) to support the secure exchange of top-secret information via commercial IP-based, wide-area networks at speeds of at least 1 gigabit/sec - the equivalent of 48,000 typewritten pages per second. Source. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/1104/tec-nsa-11-04-02.asp October 31, IDG News System adds to biodefense readiness. U.S. military medical researchers are using a computer-based biosurveillance system that collects data from patients at military medical facilities to detect outbreaks of infectious disease as well as incidences of bioterrorism. The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) has been in use since 1999, initially collecting and interpreting data submitted daily by doctors and other health care professionals at military treatment facilities in the Washington, D.C., area. But its role began expanding after the Sept. 11 terror attacks and is now gathering data from military medical facilities worldwide as well as other health care sources, said Lt. Col. Julie Pavlin, a researcher at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. ESSENCE helped officials detect an outbreak of 138 cases of the Norwalk virus in San Diego early this year among troops at a training facility. The disease, which causes vomiting, nausea and diarrhea, spreads rapidly, and is something the military must contain because soldiers tend to live in close quarters, Pavlin said in an interview. Source: http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=761360 _______________________________________________ Information_technology mailing list Information_technology@listserv http://listserv.infragard.org/mailman/listinfo/information_technology
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