GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: RFID-enabled Food Safety and Traceability Systems

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: ABI Research

29March2011 3:34amEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Food traceability has traditionally required a "one step forward, one step back" record-keeping effort for each company that produces, processes, packages, transports, or sells food products. The objective is to provide the ability to "trace-back" rapidly from point of consumption to the source, all food products and components identified as potentially involved in a foodborne disease outbreak. Each food-industry company must maintain records that show "who they purchased it from" and "who they sold it to." New legislation in the United States focuses on the establishment of industry-wide data standards for this information, and goes beyond traceability to require that the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) develop and publish new regulations that focus on overall prevention of foodborne disease outbreaks.  (read full report)

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GCIS CYBER-SECURITY BRIEFING: Lynn Urges Partnership Against Cyber Threat

 

ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center

SOURCE: Defense Aerospace

16February2011 2:35pmEST

GCIS CYBER-SECURITY UPDATE: SAN FRANCISCO --- Government and industry must work more closely together to counter the growing threat to the nation’s cyber networks, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn told information technology professionals here today.

The Defense Department and other federal departments and agencies need to pursue or expand avenues in information sharing, strengthening network architecture, and extending government’s network defenses to private networks key to national security and the economy, he said during a keynote speech at the annual RSA Conference for Internet security.

Lynn told thousands gathered for the conference that the private sector’s role in defending the cyber domain is critical. Unlike the sea, air, land and space domains, cyber is not an area where military power alone can dominate, he said.

“The overwhelming percentage of our nation’s critical [information] infrastructure, including the Internet itself, is in private hands,” Lynn noted. It will take the country’s “vast technological and human resources to ensure the United States retains its preeminent capabilities in cyberspace, as it does in all the other domains,” he said.  (read full report)

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