The Navy Information Warfare Command plans to deploy a technology that will certify 180 ships for cybersecurity compliance by fiscal 2020. The cyber baseline system will allow NAVWAR to ensure that its fleet complies with the cybersecurity requirements set by the departments of Defense and the Navy, Defense News reported Tuesday. According to a NAVWAR […]
Mark Lewis, director of defense research and engineering for modernization, believes that the Department of Defense needs to adopt a less risk-averse mindset to successfully develop hypersonic weapons that would offer warfighters mission-critical advantages in the battlefield. In an interview with the Hudson Institute in Washington, Lewis asserted that the department has to be willing […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has reinforced its detection and mitigation efforts against governmentwide cyber threats in response to increased potential malicious network activity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at the Cybersecurity Transformation Summit 2020, Richard Driggers, CISA’s deputy assistant director for cybersecurity, said the agency funneled its cybersecurity resources through the Continuous Diagnostics […]
The Department of Defense has selected eight counter-small unmanned aircraft system solutions for use by the joint force based on the Army's assessment. In November, the defense secretary tasked the Army to narrow down the number of C-sUAS used by the armed services to avoid redundancy in the fielding of solutions, C4ISRNET reported. “Our goal […]
The Air Force aims to leverage artificial intelligence for improved network defense to allow the service’s cyber workforce to prioritize higher-level tasks, including white-hat hacking. Lauren Knausenberger, chief innovation officer for the Air Force, believes that AI could be maximized to rid human workforces of tasks like performing bug fixes and assessing threat reports. To […]
The coronavirus pandemic has become one of the "biggest drivers" of information technology and cyber modernization in recent times, according to a homeland security leader. Christopher Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said the pandemic forced a multitude of sectors to switch to telework to curtail […]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced five areas where it believes blockchain technology can be used. The potential use cases were identified by the DHS' Privacy Office, Customs and Border Protection and Citizenship and Immigration Services, FedScoop reported Monday. CBP proposed using blockchain's paperless properties for validating data from food importer documents, for tracking […]
The Department of Education has been implementing workforce training and promoting collaborations with other federal agencies and stakeholders to strengthen its cyber posture. Speaking at the recent Mission to Innovate webinar, Education Department Chief Information Officer Jason Gray said workforce education has enabled the department to mitigate the impacts of SMS attacks that bait targets […]
Sen. Ron Wyden has asked the Intelligence Community to explain the widespread cybersecurity problems it has been facing. In a letter to Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Wyden noted that Congress exempted the IC from the Department of Homeland Security's regulations on cybersecurity technology and policy adoption, MeriTalk reported. "Congress did so reasonably expecting […]
Federal agencies should aspire to emulate the Department of Defense's model for facilitating telework during the coronavirus pandemic, according to information technology experts. Jeanette Manfra, Google Cloud's director of government security and compliance, said telework arrangements require employees to have access to a zero-trust cloud computing architecture, DOD reported. "Security compliance acts as blocker sometimes. You have […]
