Cybersecurity company Celerium is now offering online courses aimed at improving supply chain security in defense and other critical sectors. The Supply Chain Cybersecurity Compliance Program will offer insights that can help organizations comply with Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Level 1 requirements, Celerium said Wednesday. The course is targeted at government contractors working with the […]
AT&T has launched a new unified cybersecurity offering designed to help government agencies meet a range of security and compliance requirements. Built on the Unified Security Management platform, the new Threat Detection and Response for Government includes threat detection, incident response and compliance management features, AT&T said Wednesday. “The need for effective threat detection and […]
President Joe Biden’s American Jobs Plan contains funding that will help ensure the security of the country’s critical infrastructure, according to a recent press release issued by the White House. The plan allocates $20 billion for energy system modernization block grants administered by the Department of Energy. Grantees will be required to enhance energy grids […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced a virtual workshop that seeks to improve the security of the software supply chain and fulfill President Joe Biden’s executive order on enhancing the federal government’s cybersecurity. The EO, which was issued on May 12, directs the secretary of commerce to consult with federal agencies, academia, […]
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 […]
