Momentum is building for the shift to zero trust. The Cybersecurity EO, OMB strategy and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Zero Trust Maturity Model form a roadmap for agencies to achieve specific zero trust goals by the end of fiscal year 2024. It’s time to dispel the misconceptions and start moving forward with impactful zero trust strategies.
The State Department is elevating its cybersecurity mission and is focusing on setting international norms for cyber through its newest bureau.
Amid concerns about Russian cyber attacks, a new White House office is reviewing federal efforts to secure U.S. critical infrastructure.
The House and Senate are working to reconcile two bills that would in part move along the cause of cybersecurity in the United States. Both bills, the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act and the America Competes Act, passed the Senate and House respectively.
Somehow the national debt has managed to reach $28 trillion. But, where is it? It's in a set of electronic schedules maintained by the Treasury Department's Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
More spending does not necessarily equal better security. As they work to secure our nation's digital infrastructure better, federal organizations must not waste billions of taxpayer dollars on reactive cybersecurity solutions that, in the private sector, have left many organizations with less security and more complex tools to manage.
Federal systems house troves of data that make them likely ransomware targets: personally identifiable information, financial records, and highly classified files. CISA, DISA and FHFA share tips on how to make agency systems less desirable targets.
The budget request outlines a "strategic shift" in federal cybersecurity efforts after incidents like SolarWinds and Log4j.
A crucial part of the State Department has a new head of crucial function at a time of high world tension.
CISA has two years to design one of the most significant cyber regulatory programs in history.
Nearly a year after President Joe Biden signed off on an expansive cybersecurity executive order, officials are grappling with the difficult task of taking secure software standards and applying them to the vast array of software agencies buy.
CISA is highlighting several tools after the White House said it has "evolving intelligence" suggesting Russia is preparing cyber attacks.
Despite the scattered arrangement of State Department employees around the world, going to a remote and hybrid work environment during the pandemic was less challenging than IT officials expected.
If anything, federal agency life (not to mention “real life”) since 2020 has taught us that we can’t predict what is to come. However, we can always look back and take away lessons learned to help inform future decisions and direct long-term strategies.
DoD's new JADC2 implementation plan is still classified, but signs of it will start to appear in the forthcoming 2023 budget proposal.