A Department of Defense representative said Rand has submitted the results of a study on designating an assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy. The 2023 National Defense Authorization Act requires the DOD to establish the post, The Record reported Wednesday. In an email sent Tuesday, the representative wrote that a review of the findings […]
The U.S. Army Contracting Command has selected Lockheed Martin to support the National Cyber Range Complex, which provides enterprise infrastructure and expertise to plan and execute realistic cybersecurity tests, evaluations, experiments, mission rehearsal exercises and training events. Under an agreement with the Army, Lockheed will use its experience in cyber defense, readiness, testing and training […]
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division has opened a new National Cyber Range facility to provide a secure virtual environment for technology developers to test solutions for cyber vulnerabilities. According to the Naval Air Systems Command, the new facility, located at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, will focus on cyber testing […]
Accenture Federal Services and Google have formed the Cybersecurity Center of Excellence as part of a new partnership to support U.S. federal agencies’ rapid detection and response to cyberattacks. The center expands the two companies’ alliance that began with the Accenture Google Cloud Business Group in 2018 and was further broadened in April. The new […]
Fortress Information Security has announced that it is now part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative. As a JCDC member, Fortress will offer its experience in building partnerships with organizations providing supply chain resilience solutions for the U.S. power grid. Alex Santos, CEO and co-founder of Fortress, said the company […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has updated the Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot to alert all organizations about vulnerabilities in their systems that could enable a ransomware attack. Prior to the update, the RVWP only provided network vulnerability notifications and access to a catalog of vulnerabilities commonly exploited by ransomware actors to critical infrastructure entities. […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is working with its Israeli counterpart to prevent cyberattacks following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 and the subsequent counteroffensive by Israeli operatives. Speaking at a Washington Post event on Thursday, CISA Executive Director Brandon Wales said the agency is regularly exchanging information with the Israel National Cyber Directorate […]
The Internal Revenue Service has selected J3 Consulting to provide comprehensive acquisition support services to the Cybersecurity Security Services and Investment Office. Under a $4.4 million contract, J3 will offer its expertise in acquisition planning, program management and technical writing in support of the IRS IT cyber mission. Contract work covers the full acquisition lifecycle, […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is calling on internet service providers to remediate Rapid Reset, a widespread vulnerability that led to the largest distributed denial-of-service attack ever. In a joint statement on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare and Google explained that malicious actors exploited a feature in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol/2 system that allows […]
The National Security Agency has released a new cyber signature and analytics repository to help cyber officials fend off malicious activities in operational technologies. The ELITEWOLF capability is a set of operational technology intrusion detection signatures and analytics that allows officials to continuously monitor their systems. According to ELITEWOLF’s GitHub page, the signatures and analytics […]
