NUTS Technologies announced that it has secured an “Awardable” status from the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office’s Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace for its Insider Threat Defense solution. ITD is a solution that helps government users mitigate insider threats even from privileged IT administrators. According to NUTS, ITD enforces need-to-know protocols on classified and top secret […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency and the FBI released new guidance to help water and wastewater systems operators and owners fend off cyberthreats. The guidance highlights four stages of cyberthreat incident response: preparation; detection and analysis; containment, eradication and recovery; and post-incident activities. For each stage, WWS sector organizations are […]
Khoi Nguyen, the U.S. Cyber Command’s command acquisition executive and director of the cyber acquisition and technology directorate, J9, bared that his team is developing a 2024 roadmap to synchronize the organization’s operational capabilities into a single, integrated platform. The Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture comprises CYBERCOM’s cyber operations platforms, which are developed and maintained by […]
A report by a White House council laid down ways to ensure a resilient cyber-physical critical infrastructure. On Thursday, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology approved recommendations that will enhance cyber-physical critical infrastructure’s resiliency. Among the recommendations made are creating a clear definition of minimum operating capabilities and delivery objectives, and the […]
QuSecure has announced a Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX directorate to provide access to QuProtect, a post-quantum cryptography software-based solution. The offering provides end-to-end protection to encrypted communications and data on cloud, edge, internet of things, network and satellite communications devices, QuSecure said. Organizations can use QuProtect to […]
The Department of Energy has announced a $30 million funding initiative focused on integrating cybersecurity measures into clean energy solutions. The Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response is interested in several cybersecurity-related topic areas, including forensic analysis for renewable energy field devices, cyberthreat identification and mitigation for inverter-based resources, inter-organizational communications among energy […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI have issued guidance alerting critical infrastructure operators on the cybersecurity threats from using Chinese-made unmanned aerial systems and suggesting ways to neutralize the risks. Titled Cybersecurity Guidance: Chinese-Manufactured UAS, the CISA-FBI resource urges caution on using Chinese-made drones, noting that China has laws with expanded government […]
Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, announced that the United States and the European Union have agreed on a cyber trust labeling program for consumer internet of things devices. Speaking at the CES conference earlier in January, she said the joint roadmap signed by the two sides is an initiative […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general said in a report that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency needs to improve its partnerships with the environmental sector to mitigate cyberthreats to water and wastewater services. According to the Office of Inspector General’s report, CISA failed to share its cybersecurity expertise with the Environmental Protection Agency […]
A joint advisory from the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has warned that hackers are deploying the Androxgh0st malware to maliciously gather credentials from popular applications, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Office 365, in a bid to create a powerful computer bug. The Androxgh0st malware has compromised about 40,000 hosts, […]
