Cybersecurity
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For the past several months, there has been a frantic scrambling by all stakeholders involved in the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program to determine the best path forward to secure the nation’s supply chain.
January 13, 2022 -
Michael Duffy, an associate director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Homeland Security Department, said meeting the recent Binding Operational Directive will be driven by the CDM program.
January 13, 2022 -
Any cloud service provider that wants to do business with the federal government needs to get FedRAMP certified first. But companies that want to do business with the Defense Department have to go a step further.
January 12, 2022 -
Defense agencies have utilized strategies to address attack vectors and build a workforce that can block ransomware as the federal government transitions toward storing its data in the cloud.
January 12, 2022 -
"The demand for intelligence from US targets only grows," said Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal. “The attacks are widespread, affecting many different industries.”
January 12, 2022 -
Lawmakers see an opening this year to reform the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, with major updates including the assignment of clear roles and responsibilities for federal cybersecurity leadership. The House Oversight and Reform Committee…
January 11, 2022 -
DARPA has launched a program to develop defenses against that possibility. It's called Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deception, or GARD.
January 11, 2022 -
Federal agencies have patched or mitigated thousands of assets, but officials warn remediation efforts are far from over.
January 10, 2022 -
ThreatLocker CEO and co-founder Danny Jenkins joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss cybersecurity. zero trust software, and issues brought up by the Log4j cyber attack.
January 10, 2022 -
Like their federal brethren, state government chief information officers found themselves in an expanded role over the last few years.
January 07, 2022 -
The agency is also looking to take better advantage of an “explosion” in commercial earth data.
January 06, 2022 -
Operators of pipelines, freight railroads and passenger transit systems face a parade of cybersecurity deadlines this year.
January 06, 2022 -
The Colonial Pipeline incident proved to be an important test of the National Risk Management Center's new approach to managing threats and vulnerabilities to key U.S. sectors.
January 04, 2022 -
Congress is contemplating a bill that would require companies to report successful cyber attacks to the federal government.
January 03, 2022 -
The top 10 Reporter’s Notebook stories in 2021 demonstrated the popularity of topics ranging from IT modernization to cybersecurity to large contract vehicles.
January 03, 2022