Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
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The spending bill also cuts the Biden administration's request for the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology system.
January 02, 2023 -
Don't waste too much time looking back at a weird 2022. Too much is possible in 2023.
December 30, 2022 -
To nobody’s surprise, 2022 was another action-packed year for federal chief information security officers and cybersecurity teams across government.
December 26, 2022 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is line for another budget boost, while lawmakers are also reauthorizing CISA’s marquee cyber defense program for another year.
December 20, 2022 -
Ross Foard comes to his position at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency with experience. Lots of it. His long and storied federal career has landed him at CISA as an IT and information security specialist. “It’s probably,” he said, his “most rewarding” position to date.
December 08, 2022 -
The latest FISMA guidance sets a new deadline for agencies to report most of their IT systems through CISA's CDM program.
December 06, 2022 -
The Office of Management and Budget asked agencies to submit data about how they are protecting their domains from distributed denial of service attacks after a Russian-based group claimed responsibility for two successful incidents.
December 06, 2022 -
For nearly a quarter century, the government has been coaxing industry to report cyber security incidents. Now it's the law, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has the task of writing the rules and making it happen. For one industry view of how it's going, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with the Information Technology Industry Council's Senior Director of Policy, Courtney Lang.
December 05, 2022 -
Groups are urging CISA to develop a common format or even a user-friendly web portal for reporting cybersecurity incidents to the government.
November 24, 2022 -
OMB releases new deadlines and guidance for agencies to prepare for quantum computers capable of breaking current encryption techniques.
November 18, 2022 -
New guidance from lead cybersecurity agencies identifies Software Bills of Materials as a critical factor in ensuring security during the software acquisition process.
November 17, 2022 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program is planning to expand the capabilities of the agency and federal dashboards in 2023.
November 07, 2022 -
The goals are voluntary, but the Biden administration is separately pressing certain critical infrastructure sectors to adopt minimum cyber standards.
October 27, 2022 -
The minimum security configurations should help agencies better secure widely used business applications.
October 24, 2022 -
The federal chief information security officer says the zero trust strategy is helping cyber leaders make the case for specific investments in the 2024 budget.
October 19, 2022