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Ransomware, hackers hijacking systems and demanding big money to release them has become more than a threat for state and local governments, as well as school districts.
Federal agencies are struggling under a deluge of geospatial data, and the ability to conflate it quickly has become a crucial missing requirement.
The Department of Homeland Security is building momentum on its plans to get ahead of an escalating ransomware threat, and getting started on 60-day sprint focused on ramping up its cyber workforce to get ahead of these threats.
In today's Federal Newscast, two large government conference organizers say the third party vendor they use for conference registration was the victim of a ransomware attack.
A new two-page document from the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force aims to help organizations guard against one of the most persistent and dangerous cybersecurity threats, ransomware.
A more connected health IT landscape also increases the cyber threat landscape and introduces new challenges for security professionals.
Frank Dimina, vice president of Public Sector at Splunk, joined host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to explain why federal agencies should secure their data sets before applying machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Texas and Nebraska's state CIOs spoke to Ask the CIO: SLED Edition about local government ransomware attacks, trusted vendor advisers and more.
Chris Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at DHS, said recent ransomware attacks on Baltimore, Louisiana and Texas brought to light the need for a more coordinated federal, state, local and private sector response to cyber attacks.
Cybersecurity awareness programs are not a one and done event, but an area of continuous and universal reinforcement. Laws may be needed to require ransomware incident reporting and perhaps prohibit ransom payment.
Local officials examined the challenge of educating executive leadership on cybersecurity importance.
One of the most troublesome forms of cyber attack, ransomware famously hit Baltimore earlier this year.
NSA’s six-year-old program challenges students and others to solve a multi-step cybersecurity problem as a way to expose them to the type of work the agency and the government does.
Patrick Knight, a senior director of cyber strategy and technology at Veriato, outlines basic steps for agencies to take as ransomware attacks become more prevalent.