Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Australia Plans Critical Infrastructure Security Assessment Panel (30 November 2004). The Australian government plans to spend AU$8 million on the Computer Network Vulnerability Assessment (CNVA) program, which will aim to identify and fix security flaws in the networks supporting country's critical infrastructure....... [SANS NewsBites] 5:52:24 PM

California Bill Would Restrict Researchers' Access to State Agency Data (2 December 2004). California state senator Debra Bowen has proposed legislation that would prohibit state agencies from providing researchers with data that personally identifies California citizens....... [SANS NewsBites] 5:52:03 PM

Experts want more government focus on cybersecurity. The Bush administration should spend more on cybersecurity research, share threat information with private-sector security vendors and set up an emergency computer network that would continue working during Internet blackouts, a computer security trade group said today. [Computerworld News] 1:30:07 PM

Universities Get Minimum Security Benchmarks And Free Testing Tools (29 November 2004). EDUCAUSE has contracted with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to allow all 4,000 universities that are EDUCAUSE institutional members to get free licenses to use and redistribute CIS minimum security benchmarks and security testing tools on college- and university-owned systems and on students, faculty, and employee-owned systems....... [SANS NewsBites] 1:28:52 PM

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