| Government Site |
Summary |
| Computer Security Resource Center |
Work is grouped into five major categories; Cryptographic Standards and Applications, Security Testing, Security Research, Security Management and Guidance, and Outreach, Awareness and Education. |
| Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). |
| DHS
Agencies (Commerce, FCIRC, Etc.) |
The agencies slated to become part of the Department of Homeland
Security will be housed in one of four major directorates: Border
and Transportation Security, Emergency Preparedness and Response,
Science and Technology, and Information Analysis and Infrastructure
Protection. |
| Department of Homeland Security |
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks against America on
September 11th, 2001, President George W. Bush decided 22 previously
disparate domestic agencies needed to be coordinated into one department
to protect the nation against threats to the homeland. |
| Defense Information Systems Agency |
The Defense Information Systems Agency is a combat support agency
responsible for planning, engineering, acquiring, fielding, and
supporting global net-centric solutions and operating the Global
Information Grid to serve the needs of the President, Vice President,
the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant
Commanders, and the other DoD Components under all conditions of
peace and war. |
| Information Assurance Directive |
In order to enable our customers to protect and defend cyber
systems, the NSA develops, and supports a variety of products and
services. We also conduct ongoing research to aid in the development
of next generation solutions. |
| InfraGard (FBI) |
InfraGard is a Partnership between Private Industry and the U.S.
government (represented by the FBI). The InfraGard initiative was
developed to encourage the exchange of information by the government
and the private sector members. |
| National Information Assurance Partnership |
Promote the development and use of evaluated IT products and
systems.
Champion the development and use of national and international
standards for IT security.
Foster development of IT security requirements, test methods, tools,
techniques, and assurance metrics.
Support a framework for international recognition and acceptance
of IT security evaluation results. Facilitate the development and
growth of a commercial IT security testing industry within the
U.S. |
| National Infrastructure Protection Center |
Division of the Department of Homeland Security. |
| National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Founded in 1901, NIST is a non-regulatory federal agency within
the U.S. Commerce Department's Technology Administration. NIST's
mission is to develop and promote measurement, standards, and technology
to enhance productivity, facilitate trade, and improve the quality
of life. |
| Government Site |
Summary |
| National Security Agency |
The National Security Agency is the Nation's cryptologic organization.
It coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities
to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence
information. |
| NSA Centers of Excellence |
The Centers of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance
(IA) Education Program is an outreach effort designed and operated
by the National Security Agency (NSA) in the spirit of Presidential
Decision Directive 63 (PDD 63), the Clinton Administration's
Policy on Critical Infrastructure Protection, May 1998. |
| NSA/CSS INFOSEC |
NSA/CSS provides the Solutions, Products and Services, and
conducts Defensive Information Operations, to achieve Information
Assurance for information infrastructures critical to U.S. National
Security interests. |
| Secure Linux |
Researchers in the Information Assurance Research Office of
the National Security Agency (NSA) worked with Secure Computing
Corporation (SCC) to develop a strong, flexible mandatory access
control architecture based on Type Enforcement, a mechanism first
developed for the LOCK system. |
| U.S. Department of Education |
In 1980, the U.S. Department of Education was created by bringing
together offices from several other departments. Its original
directive remains its mission today — to ensure equal access
to education and to promote educational excellence throughout
the nation.
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| U.S. Department of Labor |
The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of
the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States
by improving their working conditions, advancing their opportunities
for profitable employment, protecting their retirement and health
care benefits, helping employers find workers, strengthening
free collective bargaining, and tracking changes in employment,
prices, and other national economic measurements. |
| U.S. Department of State |
The face of the government on foreign affairs. |