The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) endorsed Tuesday a cyber-risk oversight handbook for corporate board of directors jointly published by AIG, the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). DHS is incorporating the handbook into its Critical Infrastructure Cyber Community (C3) Volunteer Program, the program the department is using to encourage use of the National Institute of Standards and Technology-facilitated Cybersecurity Framework, said DHS Assistant Secretary Andy Ozment, head of the National Protection and Programs Directorate’s (NPPD) Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, during a news conference announcing DHS’s adoption of the handbook. DHS will also make the handbook available through the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team’s website, said Ozment. The handbook, originally released last month, says corporate boards of directors should handle cybersecurity using a set of five principles, including an understanding that cybersecurity is “an enterprise-wide management issue,” rather than just an IT issue. Boards also need to understand the legal implications of cyber risks and should have adequate access to cybersecurity expertise to evaluate policies, the handbook said. They should also expect management to create an enterprise-wide cyber risk framework that is adequately funded, and should identify which risks to “avoid, accept, mitigate or transfer through insurance,” the handbook said (http://bit.ly/1mbVuut). Directors are “very much aware of cybersecurity,” but need guidance on how to confront it, said NACD President and CEO Ken Daly during the news conference. ISA President Larry Clinton said the handbook could help corporate board and cybersecurity experts “connect the dots,” noting that both sides need to understand each others’ lexicons.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) endorsed Tuesday a cyber-risk oversight handbook for corporate board of directors jointly published by AIG, the Internet Security Alliance (ISA) the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). DHS is incorporating the handbook into its Critical Infrastructure Cyber Community (C3) Volunteer Program, the program the department is using to encourage use of the National Institute of Standards and Technology-facilitated Cybersecurity Framework, said DHS Assistant Secretary Andy Ozment, head of the National Protection and Programs Directorate’s (NPPD) Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, during a news conference announcing DHS’s adoption of the handbook. DHS will also make the handbook available through the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team’s website, said Ozment. The handbook, originally released last month, says corporate boards of directors should handle cybersecurity using a set of five principles, including an understanding that cybersecurity is “an enterprise-wide management issue,” rather than just an IT issue. Boards also need to understand the legal implications of cyber risks and should have adequate access to cybersecurity expertise to evaluate policies, the handbook said. They should also expect management to create an enterprise-wide cyber risk framework that is adequately funded, and should identify which risks to “avoid, accept, mitigate or transfer through insurance,” the handbook said (http://bit.ly/1mbVuut). Directors are “very much aware of cybersecurity,” but need guidance on how to confront it, said NACD President and CEO Ken Daly during the news conference. ISA President Larry Clinton said the handbook could help corporate board and cybersecurity experts “connect the dots,” noting that both sides need to understand each others’ lexicons.
Top global smartphone company Samsung saw its market share drop from 32.3 percent to 25.2 percent from Q2 2013 to 2014, while a “wide range of Chinese OEMs more than outpaced the market” in Q2, according to a report from IDC. Samsung’s shipments declined 3.9 percent in Q2 to 74.3 million units, still far ahead of No. 2 Apple, which saw shipments increase 12.4 percent over Q2 2013 to 35.1 million units, according to IDC. But Apple’s market share also shrank from 13 percent to 11.9 percent year over year for the period, it said.
"Discover the new CES and register today,” beckoned CEA email promotions last week attempting to drum up midsummer enlistments for the 2015 show, which opens Jan. 6 for a four-day run. In reality, the substance of the Las Vegas show won’t change, but some of its layout and nomenclature will, said Karen Chupka, CEA senior vice president-events and conferences, in an interview.
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The Panamanian government is continuing to modernize its customs regime by implementing trade facilitation measures such as advance rulings, a single window for exports and an authorized economic operator program, said the World Trade Organization (WTO) during an ongoing review of Panama’s trade policies. The country also recently created the National Customs Authority and is updating its customs computer systems, the WTO added. Since the last review on Panama in 2007, the country reduced the number of tariff rates from 37 to 29, and decreased the average most favored nation tariff from 8.5 percent to 7.6 percent.
The Obama administration should impose additional sanctions on Russia in response to its support for secession in eastern Ukraine, said three Democratic senators on July 22, saying sanctions could help to prevent continued turmoil in the country. Russia is potentially culpable in the surface-to-air missile attack that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 and killed nearly 300 people on July 17, along with efforts to conceal evidence in the days that followed the attack, added Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Carl Levin, D-Mich. “We strongly urge you to aggressively exercise your authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and other relevant statutes to impose immediate broad sanctions against Russia’s defense sector, including state-owned Rosboronexport, in order to prevent Russia from providing weaponry, equipment, or assistance and training to separatists in Ukraine,” said the letter.
Ten years after the 9/11 Commission released its landmark 2004 report on the causes and implications of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on New York and Washington, members of the group released an update Tuesday identifying cybersecurity as a key new focus. Most of the members of the panel reconvened Tuesday in Washington for a conference sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
Ten years after the 9/11 Commission released its landmark 2004 report on the causes and implications of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on New York and Washington, members of the group released an update Tuesday identifying cybersecurity as a key new focus. Most of the members of the panel reconvened Tuesday in Washington for a conference sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
After taking a break from wireless issues at its June and July meetings, the FCC will focus on wireless at its Aug. 8 meeting, said the agenda released by the agency Friday. The marquee item is a report and order and Further NPRM on texting to 911 that expands the current text-to-911 mandate beyond AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon -- to cover interconnected over-the-top (OTT) texting and smaller carriers as well. The only other item on the agenda is a report and order on rules for communications antennas.