Cybersecurity
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The State Department has been working to establish a new cybersecurity bureau to work with other agencies. Only it hasn't exactly told them what it's up to and that could lead to all sorts of problems.
October 07, 2020 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will offer its Automated Information Sharing (AIS) program and new vulnerability disclosure platform as shared services to help improve the sharing of cyber threats.
October 06, 2020 -
DoD CIO Dana Deasy says officials have been finding temporary homes for cloud applications that were counting on the long-delayed JEDI program. Other preparatory that's not technically part of the contract has been proceeding apace too.
October 05, 2020 -
Brian Davis, the director for federal security solutions at Vectra, said with the amount of users and data traversing any organization’s network, trying to understand what is safe behavior and what is being done by malicious actors is getting more difficult.
October 05, 2020 -
We knew coming into 2020 that we’d likely be facing adversaries attempting to influence our campaigns, elections and democracy as they did four years ago.
October 02, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has extended waivers for agencies requesting more time to excise that gear from their networks.
October 02, 2020 -
FBI Deputy Assistant Director Clyde Wallace said much of the bureau’s new strategy focuses on its leadership of the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force.
October 01, 2020 -
The Pentagon issued an interim rule under the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations on Sept. 29 to add more clarity around the implementation timeline and around the requirements contractors will have to adhere to over the next five years under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.
September 30, 2020 -
A concept already popular within Defense spaces is beginning to make its way into the private sector cybersecurity community.
September 29, 2020 -
Software Defined Wide Area Network, or SD-WAN, is gaining a following but the technology is still fairly new, and therefore confusing to many. That is why the SD-WAN Academy, an online platform, wants to teach organizations about its capabilities.
September 29, 2020 -
Multiple sources confirm President Donald Trump plans to name Basil Parker as the new federal chief information officer and Camilo Sandoval as the new federal chief information security officer.
September 28, 2020 -
A presidential executive order has handed the Department of Homeland Security responsibility for cybersecurity of space assets.
September 28, 2020 -
Industry cyber experts say the unnamed agency failed to secure their networks with basic cyber hygiene steps and ended up becoming the latest victim of a sophisticated cyber attack.
September 25, 2020 -
A proposed interagency council would look around the world for companies and products to banish from the federal supply chain.
September 25, 2020 -
The Secret Service draws on its heritage of stopping currency counterfeiting to investigate cyber enabled financial crimes of all sorts.
September 24, 2020