Federal Chief Information Security Officer Chris DeRusha is considering adopting a workforce recruitment strategy similar to the U.S. Digital Service’s tour-of-duty model to attract federal tech talent in the short term. Applicants hired under the USDS model serve a maximum term of four years but DeRusha wants to onboard talent for shorter stints of about […]
The National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency on Thursday published new guidance directing operators of 5G cloud networks to cryptographically isolate critical containers. In the document, the two agencies called on operators to focus on protecting data by using hardware techniques like Trusted Execution Environments, FedScoop reported Thursday. The guidance defines […]
AT&T has launched an integrated managed cybersecurity solution designed to protect the information technology infrastructure of federal agencies. The AT&T Government Trusted Internet is built to the standards of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Trusted Internet Connection 3.0 cybersecurity guidance. The solution offers software-defined wide area networking technology, security capabilities and fiber connectivity as […]
President Joe Biden has signed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which contains almost $2 billion in funding for cybersecurity initiatives. The Federal Emergency Management Agency received the largest chunk of the cybersecurity funding, getting $1 billion for a cyber grant program that would support state and local governments over the next four […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to be among the first agencies to be notified whenever cyber breaches occur, and the agency wants this to be clearly stipulated in the incident disclosure legislation currently being put together by Congress. This was the bureau’s reaction to a Senate bill that puts the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security […]
Ken Bible, the Department of Homeland Security’s chief information security officer, has raised concerns about the adoption of self-assessments under the revamped version of the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The CMMC, which initially required all defense contractors to be evaluated by third-party assessors, was simplified so that companies seeking level 1 […]
A European oversight group revealed that a malicious hacker sent spam emails from an FBI email server to at least 100,000 individuals. The email referenced cybersecurity writer Vinny Troia and The Dark Overlord, a cybercriminal group that threatened to leak 9/11 information in 2019. Troia’s company, Night Lion Security, published research on the group in […]
A group of Democratic senators is asking the departments of Education and Homeland Security to improve K-12 institution cybersecurity measures. Sens. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H.; Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz.; Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., said in a letter that K-12 schools are exposed to cyberattacks from various actors driven by a rapid rise in […]
The Department of Defense is calling on the U.S. cybersecurity industry to help strengthen the resilience of international allies and partners, a top official said. Mieke Eoyang, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy, said that the DOD frequently receives requests for cybersecurity support from its allies in NATO, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, […]
The Department of Defense will formally launch a new zero trust implementation office sometime in December, a top department official said. Zero trust is a modern cybersecurity model that operates under the assumption that a threat is already inside a network’s security perimeter. The architecture will not trust any user based solely on its physical […]
