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Lawmakers are skeptical about progress on multifactor authentication, endpoint detection and other capabilities mandated by the cybersecurity executive order.
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.
The White House revised cybersecurity metrics for agencies this year, with a major focus on multifactor authentication, security testing, and cyber workforce.
The White House’s forthcoming zero trust strategy gives agencies a chance to overhaul how employees and citizens access federal systems.
A new national security memorandum sets deadlines for defense and intelligence agencies to implement things like multifactor authentication, encryption, cloud technologies and endpoint detection.
"The demand for intelligence from US targets only grows," said Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft Federal. “The attacks are widespread, affecting many different industries.”
Federal agencies have patched or mitigated thousands of assets, but officials warn remediation efforts are far from over.
John Simms, the deputy branch chief of the Cybersecurity Assurance Branch in CISA, said all the guidance is helping agencies shift their cyber thinking away from the network and closer to the data.
Agencies have seen a deluge of new guidance and standards, but a top White House cyber official says it's time to execute on the EO's goals.
Industry is exploring ways to improve both its own cyber posture, and that of federal agencies. That’s one of the reasons Microsoft published its 2021 Digital Defense Report, detailing the trends it’s seen in the cyber domain over the past year, and some actionable insights to help agencies and partners improve their defense postures.
Imagine Nation, the annual leadership conference put on by the American Council for Technology Industry Advisory Council, returned to in-person earlier this week.
Maj. Gen. Matthew Easley, director, cybersecurity and chief information security officer, and the Army’s chief information officer, said it is key cybersecurity professionals use five functions.
EO 14028 calls for changing contracting language to require greater data storage and logging as a way to improve the sharing of threat information between service providers and federal partners.
Officials are confronting a growing list of mobile-specific cybersecurity challenges with travel opening up and many employees working remotely.