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Cybersecurity vendor Fortinet has appointed Andrew Sheedy to lead its operational technology (OT) solutions business in Australia and New Zealand. As director, the company said Sheedy would focus on its critical infrastructure systems security solutions. He will help clients shape a security framework to keep their operations safe, secure, compliant, and available. “Cybersecurity strategy for critical infrastructure has been recognised by Australian state and federal governments as being of s...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is taking the investigation into last week’s Capitol siege to the next level. Pelosi requested the retired general “to lead an immediate review of security infrastructure, interagency processes, and command and control.”

Is checking our bags at the airport and making us take off shoes and perform other functions is there because a security expert determined that their job is critical to the safety and security of those traveling. if the employee is not present, if tsa employees are forced to work a series of extended shifts as we saw in reporting by rene marsh on cnn.com, that means the security plan for key places like airports isnt being followed. tsa is asked to make adjustments based upon the reality they ha...

The president is trying to distract us from this omarosa nartive. >> the question of distraction, also the question of what does it mean to our intelligence and our security infrastructure, and how, if you will, these gray hairs of security and intelligence are used here and there in important ways. >> this is such a critical time. we have had the biggest attack on this country in terms of cyber warfare since 9/11. and these officials were on the front lines of that warfare. intercepting a lot o...

Lawmakers on capitol hill that facebook is in need of some major security and privacy upgrades. since then public pressure has mounted for the company to reign in bots fake extremists on platform. >> over 2 billion monthly active users. significant number of people and a lot of data to manage. >> this week the cost of what tech experts say a cost have cost the company $119 billion in market capital in a single day. >> now, its up to the users of facebook to decide who they want to stay on the pl...

Have parties that are calling for one thing and part is calling for another med its known for this but the majority of the government under the right wing. government in the now are not calling for such an investigation and why is that why do they not want to be investigation when so many people were killed. well i believe that yesterday that senior hamas official acknowledged that fifty of the sixty two palestinians that were killed were members or supporters of. and also islamic jihad also sai...

Senior hamas official acknowledged that fifty of the sixty two palestinians that were killed were members or supporters of. and also islamic jihad also said three of their members were killed so that brings the number up to fifty three competent militants and nine civilians that were killed there ninety two much too many civilians who have been killed but many israelis believe that they pose a threat to the sovereignty of the state of israel to the security infrastructure the state of israel and...

Chair of contemporary middle east studies and author of "isis, a history." and a counterterrorism expert and former undercover operative for the canadian intelligence service. you heard what the fifth had to say. do you agree that the uk has been too tolerant of extremism? >> well, i mean, first of all, theresa may, as you know, has been in charge of the security infrastructure and the counterterrorism policy in britain for quite a few years. that the attacks that have taken place in the past th...

But beyond the initial reaction that people could have had when they were frightened, what if it were the water system or the electric system, hacks like these are low probability and high impact event. part of the trickery here we know that municipal governments in the u.s., part of their i.t. budget, if they even have an i.t. budget, it has been trumped before our very eyes, what is going to happen on the state and local level on this very unisexy high impact infrastructure. in my opinion, the...

These arcane systems. lets create a new security infrastructure. i dont know how that will play out now under trump, but not all of the hacks are digital. >> yeah, and dallas going through something like this may be -- we may see change of that kind come from dallas because theyve been through this annoying but not ultimately dangerous experience. >> thats right. theyve been touched by real terror scares as well. this is more than just a joke and everybodys on edge right now. >> xeni jardin, tec...