Cybersecurity
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In today's Federal Newscast, the Department of Homeland Security is making its bug bounty pilot a permanent program.
December 15, 2021 -
No agencies are known to have been compromised yet, but they have until Dec. 24 to use available patches for the "Log4J" vulnerability.
December 15, 2021 -
Michael Speca, president of Ardalyst, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to give us an update on the CMMC initiative from the Department of Defense.
December 13, 2021 -
The review found concerns over compliance, cost, reciprocity and more, issues that aren't going away as the Pentagon overhauls the program.
December 10, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has new guidance for how to secure agencies' Twitter, Instagram and other social media accounts.
December 10, 2021 -
Bill Wright is the senior director of North American Government Affairs at Splunk, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal technology leaders need to ingest, monitor, analyze and search their agency's data.
December 08, 2021 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has the task of helping industry ensure resilience. But the Government Accountability Office said the agency should do a little more navel-gazing.
December 08, 2021 -
Modernization can be a great thing, but government agencies must understand how these initiatives can expand an organization’s threat surface and leave solutions, once thought to be highly secure, vulnerable.
December 08, 2021 -
Cyber incident reporting requirements for critical infrastructure companies and other federal cybersecurity provisions were left out of this year's NDAA.
December 07, 2021 -
The Office of Management and Budget released the annual Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) guidance with a focus on risk-based, data-drive decisions.
December 07, 2021 -
DHS is setting minimum cybersecurity standards for critical companies in the transportation sector, with potentially more requirements on the way.
December 06, 2021 -
As government agencies shift to the zero trust model to combat evolving cyber threats, a primary focus should be on removing data silos
December 06, 2021 -
John Simms, the deputy branch chief of the Cybersecurity Assurance Branch in CISA, said all the guidance is helping agencies shift their cyber thinking away from the network and closer to the data.
December 03, 2021 -
The ransomware threat has spooked nearly everyone. A big unknown is how vulnerable your organization actually is to ransomware attacks.
December 02, 2021 -
The advisor positions were created two years ago, but they're just now starting to make their mark on the military services' cyberspace budgets and force designs.
December 02, 2021