The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, an organization dedicated to enhancing the cybersecurity posture of the U.S. and its allies, has added Zscaler as a member. According to Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry, his company will utilize its zero trust platform’s threat intelligence capabilities to address cyberattacks and ransomware intrusions. The ThreatLabZ research team will process threat […]
Researchers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said Russian hackers were able to infiltrate a U.S. satellite network because of lax security measures. According to MJ Emanuel, an incident response analyst at CISA, the Fancy Bear Russian military group was in the victim’s networks for months. CISA’s experts found that the group exploited a […]
The 16th Air Force took part in Cyber Coalition 2022, a series of exercises intended to bring together cyber defense personnel from NATO members and allied nations for training and information sharing opportunities. The U.S. contingent provided operational leadership and cyber tactics knowledge. Brig. Gen. Jeff Hill, mobilization assistant to the 16th Air Force commander, […]
The Joint Ransomware Task Force held its second meeting Saturday, overseen by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI. A review was conducted on working group activities relating to ransomware victim support, quantitative data collection, collaboration with commercial and international entities, intelligence utilization, interagency efforts and continuous improvement, Homeland Security Today reported Saturday. […]
Healthcare Management Solutions has suffered a ransomware attack that may have compromised the personal health information of up to 254,000 Medicare beneficiaries, including Social Security numbers, banking details and other identifiers. The company is a subcontractor under an ongoing ASRC Federal Data Solutions project with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. HMS provides troubleshooting […]
The National Security Agency has strengthened its partnership with the private sector to scale cybersecurity solutions and protect U.S. critical infrastructure, according to the 2022 Cybersecurity Year in Review. The NSA said its Cybersecurity Collaboration Center entered into over 300 industry partnerships over the past year to deliver intelligence-driven cybersecurity. The agency also collaborated with […]
Officials from the United States and the Republic of Korea have met in Washington, D.C., for their sixth Cyber Policy Consultations meeting. During the meeting, officials reaffirmed their commitment to promoting cyberspace stability and deepening cooperation on cybersecurity. Some of the matters discussed during the meeting are critical infrastructure resilience and protection, national cyber policy […]
The Cyber AB has authorized Edwards Performance Solutions to evaluate the cybersecurity maturity of defense industrial base corporations as a third-party assessment organization for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. Edwards Performance Solutions will use its Government Community Cloud High Enclave as a C3PAO environment, which the DIB Cybersecurity Assessment Center scrutinized to ensure it […]
Vulcan Cyber is providing public sector access to its unified cyber risk and security posture management platform through a partnership with Four Inc. Under the agreement, Four Inc. will deliver the platform to public sector customers using its NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement and Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-Software 2 contracts and its partner network. With […]
TD Synnex Public Sector will serve as the distributor for BIO-key International’s PortalGuard and identity-bound biometric multifactor authentication solutions to the federal, state and local government. Fred Corsentino, BIO-key’s chief revenue officer, said that the partnership would widen government access to cost-effective identity and access management platforms, BIO-key said Monday. PortalGuard is an identity-as-a-service platform […]
