Reid: Rights, security must be balanced
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Britain's top law enforcement official said Wednesday that individual rights must be balanced against collective security in the face of the threat of terrorism.
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Congress ought to write a detailed prescription for change in US oversight of drug safety. The public deserves better protection from potentially dangerous new medicines.
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LAS VEGAS -- Saying the coming weeks will be "one of the last opportunities" to alter the course of the war, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) said he is now willing to compromise with Republicans to find ways to limit troop deployments in Iraq.
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The best the President could accomplish, on his trip to Capitol Hill, was get some Senators to keep an open mind
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John Reid says new measures to protect children online - including a parental alarm - are to be unveiled.
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US President George W. Bush has urged the Senate to follow the example set by the House of Representatives a day earlier and pass a controversial bill setting out rules for detaining and prosecuting &quot;war on terror&quot; suspects.
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Home Secretary David Blunkett has put security at the heart of the forthcoming general election as he promised sweeping new anti-terror laws if Labour won an historic third term.
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Halftime lockerrooms are sacrosanct. Only the privileged few are allowed entry. Theyâre like the situation room at the White House, only with tighter security.
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(InfoWorld) - SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. companies and the federal government need to step up and fix the problems in their computer networks, the nation's new cybersecurity czar told attendees during his first-ever address atÂ RSA ConferenceÂ here on Thursday. Within the next 10 years, the majority of the world's communication needs will probably be handled by the Internet, said Gregory Garcia, the assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). "This proliferation of applications and devices within the converged network is going to create a breeding ground for security problems," he said. "Our networks and our systems are vulnerable and they are exposed." Garcia outlined two priorities for the year ahead. First, his office is working with federal agencies to adopt common security policies and practices. Second, he plans to work with the private sector to push forward a process called the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. This effort is intended to evaluate computer security risks on an industry-by-industry basis and outline the steps that need to be taken to address them. The broad strokes of this plan were outlined last June, and the DHS is now working with industry to flesh out sector-specific plans, Garcia said. He made it clear that the DHS expects U.S. companies to participate. "There are a lot of plans in Washington. This one is going to stick," he said. "The private sector owns and operates 90 percent of the critical infrastructure, and it's up to you all, not just the DHS, to secure this infrastructure." Companies looking for best practices already have a number of standards they can consider, Garcia said, pointing to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 17799 specification and the guidelines prescribed by Technet, an IT industry association. Computer security has not been a top priority at the DHS, which has paid far more attention to physical security threats to the nation since its inception in 2003. And though DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff tried to put a sharper focus on computer security by creating Garcia's high-level post in 2005, the position remained vacant for more than a year. Garcia was introduced Thursday by Art Coviello, president of EMC's RSA group, who said afterward that he was encouraged by the assistant secretary's speech. "It's a combination of carrot and stick," he said in an interview. "Chiding industry to actually comply with these standards that are out there, and a veiled threat of regulation to get things done." Coviello said that cybersecurity has "languished a bit" within DHS ever since U.S. President George W. Bush signed off on his administration's comprehensive cybersecurity plan in 2003. "The Department and Secretary [Tom] Ridge and Secretary Chertoff obviously focused on the right things -- physical threats -- but now it's time to get after the critical infrastructure from the cyber side," Coviello said in the interview. "I don't think industry is looking for a lot of regulation from government," he added. "What they are looking for is leadership."
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Amid deep and growing divisions among Senate Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) last night abruptly withdrew legislation that would have changed surveillance law and granted the nation's telecommunications companies retroactive immunity from lawsuits charging they had violated...
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Sen. Harry M. Reid (Nev.), a miner&#39;s son who grew up in a home with no indoor toilet, took command of Senate Democrats yesterday and promised to be a leader who would seek compromise and consensus
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Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday his government wants new anti-terror laws as he accused the courts and parliament of wrongly stressing the rights of suspects over national security.
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House members want answers from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to a number of questions, from how his department manages multibillion-dollar contracts to how it assesses risk and divvies up scarce funds.
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Information about potentially dangerous people should be shared among those who protect the public, Acpo says.
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ice President Dick Cheney said yesterday that the nation&#39;s fundamental security was at stake in the presidential election, that Senator John Kerry had repeatedly &quot;made the
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  urged the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to proceed with great  caution on a proposed overhaul of U.S. intelligence and avoid  putting barriers between military commanders and the agencies  that gather information.
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Britain needs a &quot;radical step change&quot; in its anti-terrorism strategy to combat the threat from global extremism, Home Secretary John Reid has said.