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$61.5 million FMS order for United States Marine

29.05.09

10 Mark V Patrol Boats for the Kuwaiti Navy

$725,000 fine in Bourbon Dolphin case

09.01.09

Captain had insufficient time to familiarize himself with ship, says prosecutor

$850 million financing for Stena drillship newbuild

09.01.09

Watson, Farley and Williams advises Citibank in complex deal

Air Force activates new cyberspace defense unit

01.11.09

The Air Force has activated a new communications organization that will support the Air Force's Space Command, a new command that combines space and cyber-space operations under one organization. The new 689th Combat Communications Wing, headquartered at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, specializes in deployed communications.

The wing will play a support role in combat theaters where resources are sparse, such as Afghanistan, and in humanitarian aid operations, according to the Air Force. The dedicated cyber command, the 24th Air Force, reports to the Air Force Space Command. The Air Force created the cyber command this year, and it became operational Aug. 18.

As the Air Force activates the Combat Communications Wing it fills in a critical security niche.  The 24th Air Force's integration under Space Command represents a landmark in Air Force operations, combining space and cyberspace under a single organization. Like traditional Air Force units, the 24th is set to provide forces for combat -- but unlike traditional units, these forces can also conduct cyber warfare.

The CCW is the newest of three sub-organizations supporting the 24th Air Force; the other two are the 688th Information Operations Wing and the 67th Network Warfare Wing.

The CCW nationwide will comprise roughly 6,000 active duty, reserve and National Guard airmen, as well as civilian and contractor support from the 3rd and 5th Combat Communications Groups, ten Air National Guard Combat Communications units and four Air Force Reserve Combat Communications squadrons.

Aker Philadelphia delivers ninth product tanker

22.05.10

three other vessels under construction at yard

Aker Philadelphia names Director of Sales and Marketing

09.01.09

Robin H. Booth hired to boost orderbook at Philadelphia shipyard

Aluminum Chambered Boats wins $37.7 million Coast Guard contract

22.05.10

will provide up to 80 Transportable Port Security Boats (TPSB)

American Salvage Association names committee leaders

01.11.09

Six take key association roles

Audit Fatigue is Setting In for Some

01.11.09

(Internet Research Group) - Regulation is a part of business, regardless of company size, industry, or geography. In addition, for the most part, the larger the enterprise, the larger the potential for non-compliance risk. Non-compliance can mean a number of things – sanctions, fines, legal action, market value impact, and the cost of remediation may exceed the perceived cost of prevention.

The results are supportive of the term audit fatigue, that unmanaged IT Audit efforts within regulated organizations have a negative business impact on IT resources and reduce IT efficiency. However, respondents are largely aware of and interested in tools to automate audit processes and controls as a means of overcoming audit fatigue and freeing up IT budget and resources for innovation rather than compliance. This results in the following:

• Compliance impact is increasing, resulting in high audit frequency and number: As can be expected, larger organizations must satisfy a number of IT audits. Small to mid-sized enterprises (SMB’s) are also subject to an increased level of compliance requirements – resulting in higher than expected IT audit engagements. Given the lack of consistent IT standards across industries and geographies for audit criteria and reporting, compliance efforts – i.e., IT audit and remediation – are largely manual.
  
  
  

  

• Audit costs are unmanaged, resulting in increased cost: Many respondents conduct audits on an ad-hoc basis rather than as a scheduled effort of an enterprise risk-management program. Given the inability to forecast audit and remediation, spending, budgetary control is lost – exacerbating the perceived impact of compliance efforts.
• Lack of controls automation, limited process maturity: Audit fatigue can be attributed to lack of controls automation and unmanaged IT Audit processes. Limited controls maturity – i.e., repeatable and sustainable controls enforcement and audit processes – constrains IT innovation due to uncontrolled costs associated with IT Audit and issue remediation.

Backup and Data Retention Policy Defined by Janco

08.10.09

 IT organizations of all sizes contend with a growing data footprint with more data to manage, protect and preserve for longer periods of time. Online primary storage, has focus a on fast lowlatency, reliable access to data while near-line secondary storage has a focus on low cost and high capacity. Long-term data retention requires a combination of ultra-low cost, good performance during storage and retrieval, and reduced footprint in terms of power, cooling, floor-space and economics (PCFE) - also known as a small green footprint - for inactive data.

Factors that CIOs and IT professionals need to consider for data retention include:

• Business and regulatory requirements – regulatory compliance and data preservation
• Economic and budgetary concerns – doing more with less
• Data loss prevention and information protection – protect, preserve and serve
• Environmental and business sustainment – green and economically efficient
• Maximize IT resource effectiveness and return on investment (ROI)
• Reduce total cost ownership (TCO) of IT resources and service delivery

The Backup and Backup Retention policy is an 11 page sample policy that is a complete policy which can be implemented immediately. 

The document is provided in both Word 2003 and Word 2007 format and is easily modified.  This policy is included in the Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Template.

Below is a table from the policy:

 

BAE Systems to buy Atlantic Marine

22.05.10

$352 million deal does not include Boston and Philadelphia operations

Banks hinder fraud contol

08.10.09

Too often though banks whose customers are victimized by fraud do not divulge any information on how an account was compromised, where the money was transferred and how it was then "walked out" of the country.   Despite the large scale nature of such thefts, it is often very difficult to track down the perpetrators of such fraud because of the limited availability of information.  To identify those behind such crimes, more information needs to be made available on the techniques being employed by the criminals, the servers and botnets being used to launch attacks and the accounts and the destinations to which stolen money is transferred.

An anti-spam company filed a lawsuit is aimed at forcing banks to divulge any information they might have about hacking activities affecting their customer accounts.  The lawsuit, filed in U.S. Federal District Court, invokes the CAN-SPAM Act in seeking compensatory and punitive damages against unnamed "John Does" responsible for "stealing money from U.S. businesses [using malware.]"

The complaint alleges that cyber-thieves are stealing millions of dollars from U.S. bank accounts every month via virus infected e-mail spam.  It says users who opened such spam messages are getting infected with keystroke logging programs that allow remote attackers to obtain that user’s banking credentials, break into their accounts and transfer money out of the country via illegal Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions the complaint alleged.

California ARB reg could lead to propulsion failures

29.05.09

Coast Guard urges industry industry to take proactive measures to improve fuel switching safety

California seeks damages in Cocso Busan spill

09.01.09

suit names the owners, operators and pilot of spill ship

CBS 60 Minutes interviews Deepwater Horizon survivor

22.05.10

disturbing testimony on blowout preventer and more