The Defense Threat Reduction Agency, a support agency responsible for countering weapons of mass destruction, said it will soon implement a new cybersecurity system for the Department of Defense. The system, called Bird Dog, will use machine-learned capabilities to help DOD analysts identify what cybersecurity areas the department needs to prioritize, DTRA said Thursday. “It […]
Viasat announced that its KG-142 high-speed network encryptor has been certified as meeting the National Security Agency’s Ethernet Data Encryptor Cryptographic Interoperability Specification standard. The KG-142 encryptor was designed to protect classified data that relies on cloud computing, transport networks, big data processing and archive and disaster recovery, Viasat said Wednesday. “Viasat’s KG-142 encryptor sets […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released new guidance on a government-wide effort to improve the cybersecurity of positioning, navigation and timing services. NIST published the PNT profile in response to Executive Order 13905, titled “Strengthening National Resilience Through Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation and Timing Services,” Nextgov reported Tuesday. “Many efforts to […]
The Department of Defense’s Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation has flagged cybersecurity issues in two of the department’s digital modernization strategy initiatives. In its annual report for fiscal year 2020, the watchdog raised concerns about the cyber survivability of the Defense Enterprise Office Solution, an enterprise-wide commercial cloud environment meant to standardize […]
Nitin Natarajan has been appointed deputy director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a position that has been vacant since November 2020. A CISA official said there are no plans for Natarajan to take over the role of CISA Executive Director Brandon Wales, who has been acting director since the vacancy, The Hill reported […]
The Department of Defense has asked defense contractors to meet the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements on their own while there are still no officially accredited assessors. Stacy Bostjanick, CMMC director within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, said DOD will have accredited a handful of assessor companies by […]
Coalfire Federal, a provider of cybersecurity services for the U.S. federal government and the defense industrial base, has appointed Stuart Itkin as vice president of Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program assurance. Itkin’s recruitment comes after Coalfire Federal received its CMMC third-party assessment organization authorization and registered practitioner organization certification […]
The United States should expect more data breach attempts like the SolarWinds attack, according to a former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Chris Krebs, a two-time Wash100 winner, said China, Russia, Iran and North Korea will likely continue conducting such operations until the United States decides to stop tolerating them, GCN reported […]
Lawmakers have called on the homeland security and intelligence communities to name a leader who will coordinate the federal government's response to the SolarWinds hack. Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio said they received briefings suggesting the government's response is disjointed and disorganized. “The federal government's response so far has lacked the leadership and coordination […]
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Center of Excellence has partnered with Ignyte Assurance Platform to boost the resilience of the defense industrial base. IAP provides software for collecting and analyzing data to streamline multiple security frameworks at once, said Interoperability Clearinghouse, the managing partner of the Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council. “This is exciting opportunity […]
