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Sudhakar Ramakrishna, the president and CEO at SolarWinds, said the high-profile attack his company experienced, which came to light in December but likely started a year before, is both a learning experience and an opportunity to double-down on software development approaches.
The Department of Veterans Affairs' top cybersecurity official told Congress Thursday that audits by VA, DHS and an outside firm have shown no indications the Solarwinds vulnerability was ever used for malicious activity on the department's networks.
In today's Federal Newscast, House and Senate lawmakers seek to overturn a ban on the Postal Service shipping alcohol to households.
Although vulnerabilities stemming from both companies software were present on hundreds of DoD systems, officials say there's no evidence that cyber adversaries actually exploited them.
CISA says exploitation of verified credentials in the SolarWinds breach should be cause for alarm and give rise to tighter identity controls in the federal government.
In the wake of the SolarWinds breach, the Senate Intelligence Committee turned to industry for recommendations on how to ensure that kind of incident doesn’t happen again.
Anne Neuberger, the administration’s deputy national security advisor for cybersecurity and emerging technology, said in a White House press briefing that the breach compromised the networks of nine agencies and about 100 private-sector companies.
SolarWinds officials are trying to make their case to agencies that they are creating more rigor and security in their development and testing processes.
NIST will finalize new publication NISTIR 8276 that will include eight key principles for protecting IT supply chains and release the draft to update SP 800-161, which will includes specific steps for agencies.
Federal agencies - and there are several of them at least - affected by the SolarWinds cybersecurity fiasco are under a new deadline.
In today's Federal Newscast, new analysis from Bloomberg Government found agencies spent almost 700 billion dollars on procurement last year.
The federal government has a big data loss problem and a reputational black eye from the recently-discovered Russian cybersecurity attack successes.
For more likely scenarios, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the former National Security Agency chief information security officer, now with Fidelis Cybersecurity, Chris Kubic.
As the government deals with what might be the worst cybersecurity breach ever, National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellow Ron Ross joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what should happen next.