Cybersecurity
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The Department of Homeland Security is building momentum on its plans to get ahead of an escalating ransomware threat, and getting started on 60-day sprint focused on ramping up its cyber workforce to get ahead of these threats.
May 06, 2021 -
Alex Rice, the co-founder and chief technology officer at HackerOne, said over the last five years, DoD has identified more than 10,000 vulnerabilities through bug bounty and other similar programs.
May 05, 2021 -
Solving cybersecurity issues will take time and requires new levels of cooperation between the public and private sectors to defend against threats and work towards a solution.
May 04, 2021 -
John Peluso, chief product officer at AvePoint, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss experiences his company has had with several agencies when they wanted to make a transition to the Microsoft cloud.
April 30, 2021 -
The legislation would grant limited immunity to give companies an incentive to report, and require these disclosures to anonymize personally identifiable information. Warner said these disclosures would provide an “early warning system” across government and private-sector owners of critical infrastructure.
April 30, 2021 -
Several years ago, EPA CIO Vaughn Noga and his team established a set of “wildly important goals” which he said have strengthened since the pandemic.
April 28, 2021 -
Kevin Walsh, a director on the Government Accountability Office's IT and cybersecurity team, had the latest on GAO's High Risk List on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 28, 2021 -
Isaac Kohen, the vice president of research and development at Teramind, offers advice about how to ensure agencies and their employees maintain cybersecurity whether at home or in the office.
April 27, 2021 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency required agencies to take action against a major problem with the virtual private network software from Pulse Secure.
April 27, 2021 -
The Federal Communications Commission is taking further steps to prohibit blacklisted Chinese IT vendors from doing business with U.S. telecommunications providers.
April 27, 2021 -
Congress has given DoD several tools to recruit and hire employees with cyber expertise. Recent statistics appear to show the Pentagon is beginning to take advantage of those authorities.
April 26, 2021 -
The Small Business Administration utilized its public affairs office to take on the threat of emergency loan frauds on social media platforms.
April 22, 2021 -
The Biden administration has mostly filled out the top cybersecurity positions. For what should happen next, New York Congressman John Katko.
April 22, 2021 -
Bill Moore, the CEO and founder of XONA, offers some tips for how agencies can better secure operational technology along with IT.
April 22, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Energy Department and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are leading a new 100-day effort to improve the cybersecurity of the electric infrastructure.
April 21, 2021