The U.S. Navy has announced the appointment of Rear Adm. Heidi Berg as the U.S. Cyber Command’s new director of plans and policy, J5. Berg currently serves as J2 director of U.S. Africa Command. Berg flew more than 1,000 hours as a communications intercept evaluator on an EP-3E aircraft as part of Operations Provide Promise/Sharp […]
Melanie Kyle Gingrich has been named the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body’s new vice president of training and development. She will take over the duties of CMMC-AB training head from Ben Tchoubineh, who has been in charge of the organization’s training efforts since 2019, FCW reported. According to her LinkedIn profile, Gingrich has prior […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency announced that it has finished the Department of Defense’s zero trust reference architecture. Zero trust security models restrict access by default even to users already inside the security perimeter, helping prevent malicious actors from accessing critical assets, DISA said. “The intent and focus of zero trust frameworks is to design […]
The National Security Agency and Morgan State University have partnered to accelerate the transportation sector’s adoption of a cybersecurity tool for internet-connected vehicles. The NSA said its Research Directorate’s vehicle systems software analysis team partnered with Morgan State University‘s Cybersecurity Assurance and Policy Center to broaden the adoption of the government-made Ghidra cybersecurity tool. “The […]
Tom McNeal, vice president of the partner channel and public sector for Neustar, emphasized the need to de-weaponize the civilian data released during the SolarWinds hack. At the hands of cyber actors, personally identifiable information could be further exploited to launch new attacks, McNeal wrote in an opinion piece published by Nextgov. To de-weaponize stolen […]
President Joe Biden has issued an executive order imposing tight deadlines on agencies like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to implement measures to improve the nation’s cyber posture. The EO released May 12 requires agencies to enact Biden’s plan to revamp the federal government’s cybersecurity under timelines as short as 30 days within the […]
Axonius has announced the availability of its Cybersecurity Asset Management Platform on the DLT Solutions General Services Administration Multiple Award Schedule. The platform was designed to allow federal government customers to more accurately and quickly track their assets, in addition to having a holistic view of their security cybersecurity environment, Anoxius said Wednesday. GSA’s schedule […]
Brandon Wales, acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, expressed support for a bipartisan bill aimed at establishing a response and recovery fund for cybersecurity incidents. The introduction of the bill comes amid the discovery of a series of major cybersecurity attacks on the federal government, including the SolarWinds supply chain attack. The […]
Cyber experts noted during a recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce virtual panel that ransomware victims’ hesitance to report is making it difficult to implement federal cyber defense efforts. Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s cybersecurity division, said it is hard to understand the scope of the problem because some […]
Elliott Davis, an accounting firm based in South Carolina, has been selected as a candidate certified third-party assessor organization under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. CMMC is the Department of Defense’s new unified standard for implementing cybersecurity across the defense industrial base. Once the program has been fully implemented, defense contractors will be required […]
