The Senate on Thursday passed a measure designating the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as the mandatory recipient of industry reports about major cyber incidents, while at the same time giving the agency a 22 percent budget increase over its 2021’s appropriation. The allocation of more power and financial resources to CISA was spurred by […]
The semiconductor shortage poses national security risks to the United States, a Department of Defense official told the House Intelligence Committee in a private session. Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, brought up the risks posed by the U.S. relying on other countries to manufacture its semiconductor […]
House lawmakers have passed a piece of legislation that would require private companies to report cybersecurity incidents to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as part of an omnibus spending bill. Leaders from the House Homeland Security Committee said in a press release that reporting attacks to CISA would give the government a clearer picture […]
St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, announced that it has been designated as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. After a multi-year selection process, the two agencies applied the designation to validate institutions with a comprehensive and robust cybersecurity program, St. […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pushing Congress to require critical infrastructure organizations to report cyber incidents to the bureau in a more timely fashion and create stronger liability protections for businesses. Commenting on the potential impact of the Cyber Incident Reporting Act, which was recently passed by the Senate, FBI Director Christopher Wray told […]
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has directed agencies to implement the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s guidance on software security. NIST recently published an updated version of its Secure Software Development Framework, which is intended to address the lack of software development life cycle models that address security in detail. SSDF […]
Carahsoft Technology announced that it is now the exclusive U.S. distributor for all Broadcom Software solutions to channel partners in the public sector, serving the federal, state and local government markets as well as the education market. This follows the signing of an exclusive Public Sector Cybersecurity Aggregator partnership agreement with Broadcom Incorporated, which owns […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will modify its zero trust maturity model to better align it with the agency’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, an official said. CISA launched the CDM program in 2012 to provide cybersecurity tools, services and dashboards to government agencies seeking to strengthen their cybersecurity posture and streamline regulatory compliance, […]
The White House has endorsed the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022, a bill that would require critical infrastructure operators to report cyberattacks and ransomware payments. According to Emily Horne, a spokesperson at the National Security Council, the bill is part of the Biden administration’s effort to modernize the country’s cyber defenses […]
Maj. Gen. William Hartman, commander of the cyber national mission force, on Friday revealed that the U.S. Cyber Command has deployed personnel to foreign nations 27 times in the last four years to help allies strengthen their cyber defenses against threats. He said that many of these deployments were carried out amid the COVID-19 pandemic, […]
