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The recently released executive order on AI from the Biden Administration drew a lot of interest from technology professionals and interest groups. Everyone is glad the White House is focused on the issue. Federal News Network's Eric White spoke with one expert observer.
There is now more cyber guidance than ever for the companies that do business with the government. You can also expect even more when it comes to other new technologies, like artificial intelligence. Congress seems to be back up and running, and there is business to attend to. To start with, reauthorizing a major component of the Homeland Security Department, and also funding the rest of the government. For analysis, Federal Drive Executive Eric White spoke with Stephanie Kostro, Executive Vice President at the Professional Services Council.
The planned addition of facial recognition to Login.gov comes as GSA attempts to boost the program’s “identity proofing” capabilities.
NIST is updating its seminal Special Publication 800-53, which forms the basis of federal cyber requirements, to address an urgent gap in identity and authentication measures.
The cybersecurity team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is about to finalize a new version of a signature document: The Cybersecurity Framework. Next week it holds a workshop to get one last round of input on the new framework draft. For more, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Kevin Stine, the Chief of NIST's Applied Cybersecurity Division.
Vulnerability disclosure has proliferated across federal agencies in recent years. A new House bill would make them mandatory for contractors, too.
Contractors will, somehow, be living under it, and there's still time to comment on it: The revision to NIST special publication 800-171 on protection of controlled, unclassified information. That's not the only cyber policy affecting contractors.
In March, the White House unveiled a new National Cybersecurity Strategy, which deviates from the National Cyber Strategy rolled out by the Trump administration in 2018. Among the changes implemented in the new strategy is a call to “rebalance the responsibility” of defending cyberspace, including a move away from end users and toward the “most capable and best-positioned actors,” including owners and operators of key technologies and infrastructures.
Because cyber threats ceaselessly change, so do the protective measures agencies need to take. Cybersecurity guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) never stay static either.
A memo released today extends the deadline for when agencies have to start collecting secure software attestation forms from vendors.
The recent drafts from National Institute of Standards and Technology around cybersecurity highlight important updates on where the government is moving on technology and the focus on increasing security against cyber threats.
Some things in life are certain. Death, taxes and, wait for it: updates to NIST cybersecurity documents.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s new draft update to Special Publication 800-171, Revision 3 takes into account a year’s worth of comments and data collection to make significant changes to the requirements.
CISA is pushing tech companies to embrace 'secure by design' principles. The agency's internal software development division is also spreading the "DevSecOps" gospel.