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Laptop Security

Thinking of taking your laptop on the road?

A laptop computer defines convenience and mobility.It enables you to work from home,a hotel room,a conference hall,or a coffee shop.Maybe you've taken steps to secure thedata on your laptop.You've installed a firewall.You update your antivirus software.You protect your information with a strong password.You encrypt your data, and you're too smart to fall for those emails that ask for your personal information.But what about the laptop itself?A minor distraction is all it takes for your laptop to vanish.If it does.you may lose more than an expensive piece of hardware.The fact is,if your data protections aren't up to par,that sensitive and valuable information in your laptop may be a magnet for an identity thief.Chances are you've heard stories about stolen laptops on the news or from friends and colleagues.No one thinks their laptop will be stolen at least not until they find the trunk of their car broken into,notice that their laptop isn't waiting at the other side of airport security,or get a refill at the local java joint only to turn around and find their laptop gone.

 

Effective Cyber Defense System

 Essential steps to create a effective cybercpace defence system 

Critical steps Subject to Automated Collection, Measurement, and Validation

 

President Obama wants more cybersecurity

 President Obama has identified cybersecurity as one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation, but one that we as a government or as a country are not adequately prepared to counter. Shortly after taking office, the President therefore ordered a thorough review of federal efforts to defend the U.S. information and communications infrastructure and the development of a comprehensive approach to securing America’s digital infrastructure.

 

Senate Bill Allows Obama to Declare “Cybersecurity Emergency”

 Cybersecurity bill to give president new emergency powers

By Tony Romm 02/26/10 02:30 PM ET

The president would have the power to safeguard essential federal and private Web resources under draft Senate cybersecurity legislation.

According to an aide familiar with the proposal, the bill includes a mandate for federal agencies to prepare emergency response plans in the event of a massive, nationwide cyberattack.

The president would then have the ability to initiate those network contingency plans to ensure key federal or private services did not go offline during a cyberattack of unprecedented scope, the aide said. 

Ultimately, the legislation is chiefly the brainchild of Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, respectively. Both lawmakers have long clamored for a federal cybersecurity bill, charging that current measures — including the legislation passed by the House last year — are too piecemeal to protect the country's Web infrastructure.

 

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