Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

How the main civilian cybersecurity agency is building up its own chops

The great Solar Winds breach back in 2020 prompted many agencies to improve their cybersecurity. Even the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency…

Cybersecurity

CISA director sees progress on hiring at growing agency

Cybersecurity

Jason Gray is the Education Department’s chief information officer. (Photo by Jason Miller)

USAID shifting modernization focus from remote to hybrid

IT Modernization

New House subcommittee chairman pledges to conduct rigorous oversight of CISA

Federal Newscast

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CISA establishing ‘systemically important entities’ office

Cybersecurity

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First Look

CISA lays out post-EINSTEIN future with shift to ‘Cyber Analytics and Data System’

Cybersecurity

CISA looking at a budget bump in the millions

Federal Newscast

Rewarding good product security across the software ecosystem

Cybersecurity

Energy Dept. cyber leaders look to build off new national strategy

Cybersecurity

FILE - Residents have begun receiving the U.S. Census Bureau's request for information receiving letters with a census identification number to answer questions about their households online. U.S. Bureau officials said Friday, May 6, 2022, they are ready to start examining changes that would combine race and ethnic questions and add a Middle Eastern and North African category on the 2030 census questionnaire, but they're waiting on another federal office to start the conversation. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, File)

Census Bureau, it turns out, didn’t spend as much as once thought

Federal Newscast

Cyber leaders applaud forthcoming updates to NIST cybersecurity framework

Cybersecurity

FILE - Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young, second from left, speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, May 16, 2022. The Biden administration is forecasting that this year’s budget deficit will be nearly $400 billion lower than it estimated back in March. “The President’s top economic priority continues to be tackling the challenge of inflation, without giving up the historic economic gains we’ve made over the past 18 months,” said Young. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

White House tells agencies to get on DotGov to help bolster ‘public trust’

The new directive carves out some exceptions, but tells agencies they should mostly be on the DotGov or DotMil domain.

Cybersecurity

CISA establishes new office to ‘operationalize’ supply chain security

CISA’s new office is looking to move beyond guidance and policies to help agencies move out on security their IT supply chains.

Cybersecurity

Everything you need to know about critical infrastructure protection, between two covers

Technology

A non-profit think tank known as the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology assembled the thinking of more than 50 thinkers in both cybersecurity and infrastructure. The result is a book that is intended to inform the thinking of both government officials and operators with responsibility for critical infrastructure.