Army

The U.S. Army is launching a pilot program to help small businesses meet the cybersecurity requirements of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program, as the Pentagon moves to integrate these standards into defense contracts. […]

Rep. Mark Green

Members of the House Homeland Security Committee are probing the intelligence community to provide updated information on the cyber threat China poses to the United States in the wake of reports that claim the PRC breached major phone and broadband companies. […]

Pentagon Military Defense DoD

As cyber threats evolve at lightning speed, Defense Department (DoD) Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) David McKeown unveiled his top ten cyber priorities, with cryptographic modernization (CM), zero trust, and defense industrial base (DIB) cybersecurity at the top of the list. […]

deep fakes, AI

Incorporating artificial intelligence technologies into defense systems is critical to staying ahead of threat actors as the AI landscape rapidly changes and new cyber-threat trends emerge, according to a new Microsoft Digital Defense Report.   […]

Members of Congress are looking for answers from both Federal agencies and U.S. telecommunications service providers following a report from the Wall Street Journal last week that says Chinese government hackers may have breached major U.S. phone and broadband companies’ wiretapping systems. […]

cybersecurity

A top official within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) painted a vivid picture today of the modern cyber landscape, and how the threat has evolved over the past decade to include both nation-state and non-aligned adversaries.  […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Cybersecurity Alliance, along with other Federal agency partners, this week kicked off the 21st annual Cybersecurity Awareness Month. […]

cybersecurity

Amid a rapidly evolving digital landscape that has made data security a top concern for Federal agencies and industry, holistic and continuous approaches to cybersecurity are important for safeguarding data and applications which depend on secure data, the chief information security officer of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said today.   […]

Pentagon Military Defense DoD

CSC 2.0 – the private sector successor to the government’s Cyberspace Solarium Commission – is teeing up a series of cybersecurity-related legislative and policy actions that it says the next administration and Congress still needs to pursue. […]

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability leaders from both sides of the aisle introduced new legislation today to expand and strengthen the Federal Acquisition Security Council (FASC) and give it more authority to keep adversarial technology out of Federal government tech supply chains. […]

The events of 9/11 – and more recently, the SolarWinds cyber incident – have illuminated a vital lesson: seamless collaboration across the intelligence community, Federal agencies, industries, academia, and international partners is essential for a comprehensive understanding of national security threats, a senior intelligence official said this week. […]

Defense Information Systems Agency, DISA

With 40 out of 60 planned sites slated for fiscal year (FY) 2024 now operational, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is aiming for full deployment of its Thunderdome zero trust network initiative by FY 2027, according to a senior agency official. […]

cybersecurity

Senior U.S. defense leaders offered a blunt message at last week’s Billington CyberSecurity Summit in Washington: no matter how high-tech your security is, it’s only as good as your basic cyber hygiene that surrounds it. […]

Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology
Army

The U.S. Army aims to introduce new regulations by February – or potentially sooner – that will require comprehensive ingredient lists for nearly all newly acquired or developed software that the service branch uses. […]

White House

The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) today released its Roadmap to Enhancing Internet Routing Security, offering more than a dozen recommendations to network operators and service providers as well as the Federal government to secure the internet ecosystem. […]

Federal officials said this week that international collaboration and better sharing of actionable security guidance are needed to help meet the challenge of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks from China and other adversaries who are making the ability to attack critical infrastructure industries part of their military strategies.   […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a new vulnerability to its known exploited vulnerability catalog following a warning last week from Lumen Technologies that Chinese state-sponsored threat actor Volt Typhoon is actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in network management platform Versa Director. […]

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House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Chairwoman Nancy Mace, R-S.C., are looking for answers on Federal government and U.S. citizen exposure to a possible cyberattack against National Public Data. […]

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