As government and critical infrastructure sectors prepare to confront a rapidly evolving threat landscape, coordinating security across organizations has become a critical imperative.
The administration, prompted by Congress, has banned sales of telecommunications gear from Chinese companies. Now the question is: Should anything come next, when it comes to Chinese products that might have national security implications?
Ross Foard comes to his position at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency with experience. Lots of it. His long and storied federal career has landed him at CISA as an IT and information security specialist. “It’s probably,” he said, his “most rewarding” position to date.
Host Dave Wennergren speaks with four more outstanding federal technology leaders who recently received ACT-IAC 2022 Executive Leadership Awards.
A normally divided Federal Communications Commission recently voted unanimously to ban sales of Chinese-made telecommunications equipment in the United States. Specifically, gear made by the Huawai and ZTE.
The latest FISMA guidance sets a new deadline for agencies to report most of their IT systems through CISA's CDM program.
The Office of Management and Budget asked agencies to submit data about how they are protecting their domains from distributed denial of service attacks after a Russian-based group claimed responsibility for two successful incidents.
For nearly a quarter century, the government has been coaxing industry to report cyber security incidents. Now it's the law, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has the task of writing the rules and making it happen. For one industry view of how it's going, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with the Information Technology Industry Council's Senior Director of Policy, Courtney Lang.
Multifactor authentication and identity are a major issues in front of the federal chief information security officer council.
In today's Federal Newscast: The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gets high marks for its cybersecurity program. Watchdogs say mistakes and fraud led to telehealth overbilling during the pandemic. And DoD wants to know if the kids are doing all right.
For many years, federal agencies treated data as something to guard at all costs, resulting in redundant and disconnected systems across government.
Customer experience and cybersecurity, frequently considered separate disciplines, are actually closely connected. One simple reason is that leaving constituents’ identities and data open to purloining is not good user experience.
Federal agencies – along with most large organizations – are steadily moving to a new generation of technology in the deployment of software applications. Regular run-time code gave way to virtual machines, and now virtual is yielding to containerization managed under frameworks like Kubernetes. This methodology brings a new set of cybersecurity risks IT staffs must mitigate.
Federal technology executives around government were moving into new jobs, retiring or heading to the private sector over the last few months.
Groups are urging CISA to develop a common format or even a user-friendly web portal for reporting cybersecurity incidents to the government.