The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) published a new report stating that legacy IT systems at the Department of Labor (DoL) and state and local governments are an overarching issue within the DoL’s unemployment insurance (UI) program. […]
A new report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which is set to be released next week, focuses on several strong use cases for artificial intelligence (AI) tools in scientific research. […]
The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Wednesday that some of the agency’s key ransomware initiatives have sent out more than 2,000 warnings of vulnerabilities over the last year. […]
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is experimenting with AI to help its employees and closing in on the release of a new chatbot for the agency’s outside constituencies, NSF Chief Data Officer and AI Official (CAIO) Dorothy Aronson said this week. […]
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on two Federal agencies in charge of overseeing the implementation of President Biden’s 2021 cybersecurity executive order (EO) to fully complete the remaining five requirements tasked to them in the order. […]
The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today that the Federal government has a “powerful” ability to mandate security standards for software vendors through its procurement process. […]
A group of industry experts called on Congress this week to enforce minimum cybersecurity standards among healthcare organizations in light of the February ransomware attack on UnitedHealth subsidiary Change Healthcare. […]
The former policy lead for the Department of Defense (DoD) under President Barack Obama said Tuesday that while the Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS) calls for secure-by-design technology principles, the White House doesn’t actually have the authority to regulate that. […]
Former chief of the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command said today that the Federal government and industry must be prepared to work together in the face of adversarial attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure like the electric grid. […]
COVID-19 may never leave us entirely, but the White House took official steps last week to ramp down much of the preventative guidance it had put in place while the pandemic was raging in 2020 and 2021. […]
