The U.S. government is encouraging the private sector to adopt secure-by-design, which involves minimizing vulnerabilities in software and holding vendors responsible for keeping such products safe. The concept is a pillar of the White House’s national cybersecurity strategy and is endorsed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Jack Cable, senior technical adviser at CISA, […]
The U.S. Air Force Academy won the 2023 NSA Cyber Exercise for the second consecutive year. The annual three-day, unclassified cyber competition aims to test the planning, communication, teamwork and decision-making skills of various government institutions and prepare them to defend U.S. cyber networks. For this year, the event focused on data analysis, forensics, reverse engineering […]
The FBI director asked lawmakers for a budget increase for the fiscal year 2024 to keep the United States abreast with its near-peer adversaries in the cyber domain. During a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Christopher Wray said Chinese hackers still outnumber U.S. hackers 50 to one even if all of the FBI’s cyber agents and […]
The Department of Homeland Security is pushing for the passage of a law that would make the Cyber Safety Review Board permanent, provide for regular funding and grant the board subpoena powers to compel testimonies. On Monday, the board released a draft version of the bill for endorsement to Congress. DHS Undersecretary Rob Silvers said […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is currently developing rules for reporting cyber incidents and ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure entities. The agency is required to create regulations under the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act, which was signed into law in March 2022. Eric Goldstein, CISA’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, said CISA […]
Don Yeske, the Department of the Navy’s acting chief technology officer, said the recent leak of classified documents on the instant messaging platform Discord could have been detected sooner had the Department of Defense completed its implementation of zero trust. He explained at a C4ISRNET conference that zero trust assumes a breach has occurred, leading […]
A top official from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had a public discussion with the head of the U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force at the ongoing RSA Conference regarding cooperation between their organizations to prevent cyberattacks. Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director at CISA, said there is work being done to dismantle the […]
The U.S. Air Force will evaluate a cybersecurity solution from AT&T and Trinity Cyber designed to enhance the cyber posture of federal agencies to better protect critical networks and sensitive information from malicious actors. The Secure Internet Gateway solution features a full content inspection capability to mitigate threats early on and offers automated threat prevention […]
United States lawmakers introduced on Thursday the Taiwan Cybersecurity Resiliency Act in a bid to restrain China’s growing aggression in cyberspace. The proposed legislation authorizes the secretary of the Department of Defense to expand U.S. cyber cooperation with Taiwan and use the country’s cybersecurity technologies and resources to defend Taiwan in the event it is […]
The Department of the Air Force found vulnerabilities in its systems during a previous review of its cyber posture. At the Joint Service Academy Cybersecurity Summit, Wanda Jones-Heath, the principal cyber adviser for the Air Force, said some serious issues stemmed from an extended lack of investment in the agency’s infrastructure, DefenseScoop reported. Task Force […]
