Critical infrastructure
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INSA praises new plans of action from DoD and the White House that could help send a clear message to potential attackers that cyberthreats will be deterred in real-time.
October 02, 2018 -
Gigi Schumm welcomes Jeanette Manfra from the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications within DHS on this episode of Women of Washington.
August 24, 2018 -
Federal government doesn't operate local elections, but it can help locals avoid fraud and tampering.
June 14, 2018 -
More than 1,000 people from federal and state agencies, in addition to partners from private critical infrastructure sectors, are convening in person and in cyberspace for the exercise.
April 11, 2018 -
The Naval War College recently conducted a Navy-Private Sector Critical Infrastructure Wargame to test U.S. defenses against a major cyber attack.
August 24, 2017 -
The authors of a new report for the National Infrastructure Advisory Council say their diagnosis of the federal government's cyber problems is nothing new.
August 23, 2017 -
Federal News Radio has decided to remove the content of this article after recent investigative reports have called into question the credibility of the expert interviewed.
May 23, 2017 -
Nearly two years after Congress passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, the intelligence community says it's laid the groundwork for a public-private cyber threat hub, but it's still far from the "cyber 911" that lawmakers and agencies envisioned.
March 21, 2017 -
The Obama administration's top homeland security adviser said an official U.S. response may still be coming, and in the meantime, federal officials are keen to bolster public confidence in the U.S. election system,
September 15, 2016 -
The new DHS program helps researchers collect data sets and test scenarios for potential cyber-related infrastructure events.
August 18, 2016 -
The federal government has designated 15 private sector industries as being or operating critical infrastructure. Each one has a corresponding federal agency with whom that industry shares cybersecurity threat information. Trouble is, the so-called sector-specific agencies haven't done a good job in assessing whether the infrastructure operators are getting better at cyber. That's according to the Government Accountability Office. Its director of cybersecurity issues, Greg Wilshusen, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin more.
December 02, 2015 -
The forthcoming Cyber Threat Intelligence Center would not only serve as a centralized hub for cyber intelligence, but also would fuse cyber information with other intelligence sources and serve as a central point for declassifying secret data about cyber threats.
February 25, 2015 -
New research shows departments do not incorporate cybersecurity efforts into their goals and objectives, said Kevin Desouza, the associate dean for research at the college of public programs at Arizona State University and a non-resident senior fellow of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.
February 19, 2015 -
Michael Daniel, the White House cyber coordinator, said to encourage adoption of the critical infrastructure cyber framework, the government would focus on streamlining regulations, cybersecurity research and development and federal procurement policies and practice.
February 03, 2015 -
Last month the Homeland Security Department published its updated National Infrastructure Protection Plan, a governmentwide framework for securing critical infrastructure on a wide scale. The aim of the updated plan is to make all sectors of critical infrastructure more "resilient" -- better able to absorb and recover from natural disasters, terrorist attacks, cyber intrusions and other adverse conditions.
January 31, 2014