Cybersecurity
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The FITARA scorecard continues to be a point of contention between Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on cyber and IT leaders.
February 07, 2024 -
Officials at the VA and Treasury say CISA should offer more centralized support to agencies through its cyber services and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.
February 06, 2024 -
The recent National Defense Industrial Strategy highlighted the erosion of U.S. industry's capacity for making things, which includes printed circuit boards (PCB) at the complex end of electronics. Now there are signs the domestic PCB industry is awakening.
February 06, 2024 -
Dem. lawmakers ask GAO to assess damage done to military by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.). The biggest CIA leak ever gets an ex-employee a 40-year sentence.
February 05, 2024 -
By all accounts, artificial intelligence is changing how organizations must approach cybersecurity. Not everyone is quite certain how. Now, a really big working group assembled by the Aspen Institute has come up with specific recommendations on dealing with AI in the cybersecurity context.
February 02, 2024 -
The way you start to build a zero trust architecture is to work with the three horizontal pillars to define and restrict the protected surfaces around the data. If you can break into my IT architecture but cannot get to the data, I win; I’m not happy, but I still won. The answer is to reduce the protected surface for the data. Smaller is easier to manage and protect.
February 02, 2024 -
The DoD CIO wrote a Risk Management Framework overlay for securing the overarching AI environment. It’s “vague about what to look for and how to do the security, but it’s a start,” said DoD CIO David McKeown.
February 01, 2024 -
Agencies have just over 24 hours to shut down any instances of affected Ivanti VPN products, per a new directive from CISA.
February 01, 2024 -
Nakasone says one of the major challenges that needs addressing is how quickly military forces rotate in and out of CYBERCOM.
January 31, 2024 -
DoD officials plan to have a call with the industry soon to clarify the latest FedRAMP equivalency memo.
January 31, 2024 -
HHS is moving toward a zero trust architecture, collecting information on where it may be vulnerable and refining its approach.
January 30, 2024 -
How do AI, cloud computing and analytics fit into creating a successful zero trust strategy?
January 30, 2024 -
Luis Lopez, the Education Department’s chief information officer, said the new customer advisory council is helping drive technology modernization decisions across the agency.
January 30, 2024 -
“We’re not going to be able to create innumerable amounts of requirements for all potential applications of AI and machine learning," a NIST official said.
January 29, 2024 -
The national security community is stronger when users can take advantage of a connected foundation for secure innovation. But as classification levels for certain workloads increase, how can agencies ensure a seamless user experience while still protecting vital data and applications—and how should this work in an era of multicloud environments?
January 26, 2024
