Cybersecurity
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Kevin Cox, the outgoing program manager of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program at CISA, said CISA has implemented the cyber dashboard at 13 CFO Act agencies and plans to provide it to all agencies later this year.
May 24, 2021 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs' top cybersecurity official told Congress Thursday that audits by VA, DHS and an outside firm have shown no indications the Solarwinds vulnerability was ever used for malicious activity on the department's networks.
May 21, 2021 -
Over the years, the DoD has been at the vanguard of ethical hacking and bug bounty programs, where the good guys find cybersecurity flaws in their systems and let them know.
May 20, 2021 -
The pandemic is a recent example of new applications for machine learning and data analytics in national security.
May 20, 2021 -
Cybersecurity experts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency and Axonius will explore possible strategies for dealing with cyber assets.
May 20, 2021 -
Matt Hartman, the deputy executive assistant director for cyber at CISA, said without EINSTEIN, there may be departments today that still did not know they were victims of the SolarWinds campaign.
May 19, 2021 -
Lots of agencies are hearing alerts from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Hunt and Incident Response Program to help network defenders find indicators of compromise.
May 18, 2021 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. That executive order on cybersecurity from the White House last week – where do you even…
May 18, 2021 -
Former and current DHS and White House cyber experts say the EINSTEIN intrusion detection, prevention initiative has lived up to most expectations.
May 18, 2021 -
Even as it debates a trillion here and a trillion there, Congress hasn't overlooked some of the close-to-home issues like federal pay.
May 17, 2021 -
Mark Johnson, vice president, Department of Defense at Oracle, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company can help federal agencies make the move to a hybrid cloud environment.
May 17, 2021 -
Edward Tuorinsky, the managing principal of DTS, and Derek Kernus, the Director of Cyber Security Operations at DTS, offers three things to consider as the Defense Department’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements become more real.
May 14, 2021 -
The Government Accountability Office identified an additional 112 steps this year that agencies and Congress could take to eliminate overlap and duplication within an untold number of federal programs and initiatives.
May 13, 2021 -
The latest ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline has some panicked Americans hoarding gasoline in plastic bags, leaving many to wonder how vulnerable U.S. companies and government entities are.
May 13, 2021 -
At 8,000-plus words, this executive order is as much a term paper as it is a call to action.
May 13, 2021