The Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) were developed in 2005 by the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), working in conjunction with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The VVSG is a detailed specification/…

ISO/IEC 27001 is a well-respected and often cited standard that has influenced numerous other information security standards including the US Federal Government’s FISMA program, the industrial control system security management standard ISA-99, the commonly used models of PKI governance based on…

In the last few months of 2013 and leading into 2014, Electrosoft seized the opportunity to partner with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) in updating the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (the “Framework”). This collaborative venture spanning across the Federal…

The key requirement to success in healthcare information technology has been interoperability. Interoperability offers efficient yet secure means for IT systems and software applications to communicate and exchange patient data. In order for the healthcare industry to move toward preventive care…

Cybersecurity touches almost every aspect of modern life and permeates many fields beyond technology, including homeland security, law enforcement, national security, foreign policy, the economy, and even emergency response. In developing the Fiscal Year 2014 Cybersecurity budget, the nation…

The confirmation on June 6, 2013 by the US National Security Agency (NSA) that it has been secretly collecting on-line data that originated overseas from non-U.S. citizens, has re-ignited an old controversy about the growth of domestic surveillance by the U. S. Federal Government.[1]  …