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‘We have to find talent’: Cyber leaders push for skills-based hiring

One advocate of skills-based hiring says employers need to stop looking for ‘unicorns’ and invest more in hands-on training to fill cyber skills gaps.

Hiring/Retention

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No time off for cybersecurity officials in 2023

Cybersecurity

First Look

How one Russian group exposed the soft underbelly of federal cyber defenses

Reporter's Notebook

FILE - This Oct. 14, 2015, file photo shows the Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md. On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, U.S. health officials proposed steps to improve the government’s system for overseeing medical devices, which has been subject to years of criticism for failing to catch problems with risky implants and medical instruments. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Medical devices are the soft cybersecurity underbelly for health care providers

Cybersecurity

Obituary: Alan Paller

People

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A cyber cautionary tale: Unnamed agency suffers sophisticated, possibly nation state, attack

Reporter's Notebook

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For some CIOs, the decision to limit the use of Zoom isn’t a big deal

Cybersecurity

Cloud computing and remote workers can reduce cybersecurity

Federal Drive

Demand pushes CIO Council to increase class size of cyber reskilling academy

Are escape rooms for cyber education a new trend in government?

Reporter's Notebook

DHS issues first emergency cyber directive due to what didn’t happen in 2009

Cybersecurity

In ‘Cybertropolis,’ Army begins to move its cyber training exercises into the physical world

At a National Guard facility in southeastern Indiana, the Army is training cyber soldiers in ways that show them how their keystrokes impact the real world.

On DoD

First of 3 new cyber policies overhauls review, repair of critical systems

The Homeland Security Department issued a Binding Operational Directive requiring every civilian agency to expand how it manages high value assets.

Reporter's Notebook

A sign above the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. Moscow has been awash with rumours of a hacking-linked espionage plot at the highest level since cyber-security firm Kaspersky said one of its executives with ties to the Russian intelligence services had been arrested on treason charges. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Transparency, due process fell by the wayside in the case of Kaspersky Lab

Reporter's Notebook

Acquisition and cyber experts say the government’s decision to remove Kaspersky Lab from the GSA schedule and a continued push by lawmakers to ban the technology is highly unusual and could create a trade war.