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Eric Goldstein, the executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), stepped down from his role last month and announced on June 30 that he has landed at Capital One. […]

DHS

The Department of Homeland (DHS), through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), announced $18.2 million in cybersecurity grants this week through the Tribal Cybersecurity Grant Program (TCGP), which assists Tribal nations in tackling cyber risks and threats. […]

CISA

More than half of critical open-source tools are built on code that doesn’t internally manage memory overflow risks, potentially leaving them vulnerable to exploitation by hackers, according to findings released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on June 26. […]

DHS

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Tuesday that it has hired the first 10 members of its AI Corps – the product of the agency’s first-ever sprint to hire 50 AI technology experts – and added a new director to lead the team. […]

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CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with the National Council of Statewide Interoperability Coordinators (NCSWIC), has released updated SAFECOM Guidance on Emergency Communications Grants (SAFECOM Guidance), which is focused on assisting state and local governments in accessing funding for emergency communications. […]

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CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) conducted their first-ever AI tabletop security incident exercise on June 13 with more than 50 AI experts from government agencies and private sector tech firms. […]

Jen Easterly, CISA
CISA

A key advisory panel to leadership of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) voted on Wednesday to approve three recommendations to CISA Director Jen Easterly that aim to improve the operations of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC). […]

CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued guidance on Thursday that aims to help Federal agencies meet requirements related to the encryption of Domain Name System (DNS) traffic and bolster the cybersecurity of their IT networks. […]

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CISA

Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, is calling on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide more details on a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor – known as Volt Typhoon – which he says poses a national security threat. […]

Jen Easterly

The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today that her team has plans to unveil its own international cyber strategy on the heels of the State Department’s release of its International Cyberspace and Digital Policy Strategy during the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week. […]

Jen Easterly, CISA

A total of 68 tech firms have signed onto the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Secure by Design pledge under which they will use best efforts over the next year to build better security into their products. […]

Jen Easterly, CISA at Billington Cybersecurity Summit

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly said her agency is due to reveal later on Wednesday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco that 60 tech companies will be signing onto a voluntary secure-by-design pledge to make their technology products more secure against ransomware and other forms of cyberattacks. […]

CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is adding four new members to the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) established by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2022 to review and assess major cybersecurity events, including former CISA Director Chris Krebs. […]

U.S. and China tech competition, AI

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly told lawmakers on April 30 that the Biden administration’s fiscal year 2025 request for CISA will help fund agency activities in three key areas, including to fight malign Chinese cyber actors. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on April 29 offered up new guidance and analysis on the use of artificial intelligence technologies in two particularly sensitive areas: weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the 16 U.S. sectors classified by the Federal government as critical infrastructure. […]

AI

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board, which will consider ways to promote the safe and secure use of AI technology in U.S. critical infrastructure. […]

DHS
Jen Easterly, CISA

As the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) celebrates the one-year anniversary of its Secure by Design initiative, the agency is looking to elevate the effort in public conversation and have customers make more demands of software vendors. […]

Jen Easterly
CISA

Individuals and teams from the U.S. military service branches took home top prizes in the fifth annual President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition organized by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), CISA announced on April 19. […]

Cloud Computing Brainstorm 2019 - Sean Connelly

Sean Connelly, who has been long been a prime mover on zero trust and other security policies for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will soon be leaving Federal government service to join cloud security provider Zscaler, the company confirmed to MeriTalk. […]

Microsoft HQ

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) publicly issued an emergency directive today calling on Federal agencies to take immediate action to reset authentication credentials following a breach of Microsoft corporate email accounts by Russian state-sponsored cyber actor Midnight Blizzard. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a new chief information security officer (CISO) as of April 7, a DHS spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]

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Microsoft HQ

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) released findings late Tuesday following its independent review of the summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion that attributed the success of the China-based hack to “a cascade of security failures at Microsoft” and an “inadequate” security culture at the company. […]

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