Federal Communications Commission officials are looking into a proposal to launch a pilot program that would provide schools and libraries $200 million over three years to strengthen their cybersecurity. At the recent Legislative Advocacy Conference, FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel, who introduced the proposal, highlighted the need to better protect the networks of such entities, citing […]
Software bill of materials management is now a priority in several market segments, Yoav Raiter, CEO of software company Cybeats Technologies, said in a recent press release. He also described SBOM as “a momentous change in software supply chain practices” and considered the White House’s issuance of a national cybersecurity strategy implementation plan – whose […]
The Environmental Protection Agency has criticized a federal appellate court’s decision to temporarily stop a new rule that would add cybersecurity assessments to public water system auditing. The EPA issued a rule in March expanding Sanitary Survey Programs by adding cybersecurity assessments of water systems. The rule was subsequently challenged by lawsuits from the attorneys […]
The White House has published a National Cybersecurity Strategy implementation plan assigning 65 counter-threat efforts to 18 federal agencies. One directive instructs the Office of Management and Budget to speed up other agencies’ information technology modernization programs to phase out expensive and vulnerable old systems. Another initiative compels the OMB and the Office of the […]
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, the White House nominee to be the next Army chief of staff, said the military service is considering expanding the application of the Department of Defense’s Cyber Excepted Service to accelerate the recruitment of civilian cyber professionals and provide them with more flexible retention options. At a […]
A China-based hacking group breached government email accounts maintained by Microsoft, including the one used by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. According to a person familiar with the matter, the Department of Commerce immediately took action after Microsoft notified the agency of the breach. The Department of State and other agencies across Western Europe were also […]
Space industry experts highlighted the need to enhance the security of space systems during a summit on Tuesday, given the reliance of critical infrastructure on satellite services. Sam Visner, a tech fellow at The Aerospace Corp., said finance, energy, oil and gas, transportation, health care and agriculture are among the major sectors depending on space-based […]
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 includes a provision that seeks to make the deployment of cyber personnel from the individual military services to U.S. Cyber Command more uniform. The provision calls on the secretary of defense to require the military services to conform to […]
Carahsoft Technology and Menlo Security have partnered to provide cloud security solutions to public sector customers. Menlo’s security solutions are built with a zero trust focus, delivering malware threat elimination, cyberthreat surge identification and targeting, phishing detection and web-based threat mitigation. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will make Menlo’s products available to the public sector through […]
The Washington Headquarters Services is conducting market research to determine the availability of small businesses capable of providing cybersecurity assessments and engineering services for the Raven Rock Mountain Complex’s facility-related control systems. The services will also support other networks essential to the protection and availability of FRCS such as power generation, uninterrupted power systems and […]
