Michael Duffy, an associate director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Homeland Security Department, said meeting the recent Binding Operational Directive will be driven by the CDM program.
Any cloud service provider that wants to do business with the federal government needs to get FedRAMP certified first. But companies that want to do business with the Defense Department have to go a step further.
Defense agencies have utilized strategies to address attack vectors and build a workforce that can block ransomware as the federal government transitions toward storing its data in the cloud.
"The demand for intelligence from US targets only grows," said Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal. “The attacks are widespread, affecting many different industries.”
Lawmakers see an opening this year to reform the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, with major updates including the assignment of clear roles and responsibilities for federal cybersecurity leadership. The House Oversight and Reform Committee…
DARPA has launched a program to develop defenses against that possibility. It's called Guaranteeing AI Robustness against Deception, or GARD.
Federal agencies have patched or mitigated thousands of assets, but officials warn remediation efforts are far from over.
ThreatLocker CEO and co-founder Danny Jenkins joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss cybersecurity. zero trust software, and issues brought up by the Log4j cyber attack.
Like their federal brethren, state government chief information officers found themselves in an expanded role over the last few years.
The agency is also looking to take better advantage of an “explosion” in commercial earth data.
Operators of pipelines, freight railroads and passenger transit systems face a parade of cybersecurity deadlines this year.
The Colonial Pipeline incident proved to be an important test of the National Risk Management Center's new approach to managing threats and vulnerabilities to key U.S. sectors.
Congress is contemplating a bill that would require companies to report successful cyber attacks to the federal government.
The top 10 Reporter’s Notebook stories in 2021 demonstrated the popularity of topics ranging from IT modernization to cybersecurity to large contract vehicles.
Gil Vega, chief information security officer for Veeam, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to explain why federal IT officials should update their data security strategies.