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Several Defense Department (DoD) officials highlighted the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity efforts on Thursday, starting with the department’s information security chief, who emphasized AI’s ability to enhance threat detection and response capabilities. […]

Rep. Mark Green

Members of the House Homeland Security Committee are probing the intelligence community to provide updated information on the cyber threat China poses to the United States in the wake of reports that claim the PRC breached major phone and broadband companies. […]

State Department

The chief information officer (CIO) at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) laid out his team’s priorities for fiscal year (FY) 2025 with modernization, cybersecurity, and IT expansion topping the list. […]

Highly Assured Data-Centric Security (HADCS) goes beyond traditional perimeter-based security models by shifting the focus to securing the data itself, explained Keith Strini, the chief technical strategist for the Department of Defense and intelligence community at Dell Technologies. […]

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As cyber threats evolve at lightning speed, Defense Department (DoD) Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) David McKeown unveiled his top ten cyber priorities, with cryptographic modernization (CM), zero trust, and defense industrial base (DIB) cybersecurity at the top of the list. […]

FCC

To mark Cybersecurity Awareness Month, global tech trade association ITI released a new document on Tuesday that provides in-depth suggestions on how policymakers can improve the cybersecurity of AI models and systems. […]

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Federal government, cloud computing

The Cloud Safe Task Force (CSTF) – comprised of four nonprofits: MITRE, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC), and the IT Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC) – published a new set of recommendations today to establish a National Cyber Feed (NCF). […]

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Incorporating artificial intelligence technologies into defense systems is critical to staying ahead of threat actors as the AI landscape rapidly changes and new cyber-threat trends emerge, according to a new Microsoft Digital Defense Report.   […]

During its quarterly meeting on Friday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CSAC) approved recommendations in four reports delivered to Director Jen Easterly aimed at bolstering resilience for critical infrastructure and open source security, as well as ensuring adoption of the agency’s secure by design initiative and increasing the agency’s public outreach. […]

As artificial intelligence-assisted cyberattacks grow and deepfakes, data breaches, and other cybersecurity risks loom, AI will continue to be an asset to cyber defenders in the future but will also increase the capabilities of threat actors, according to a new report on the future of AI tech.  […]

Members of Congress are looking for answers from both Federal agencies and U.S. telecommunications service providers following a report from the Wall Street Journal last week that says Chinese government hackers may have breached major U.S. phone and broadband companies’ wiretapping systems. […]

Government agencies and critical infrastructure entities are not prepared for a cyber conflict with China, according to a new draft report from a subcommittee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CSAC). […]

cybersecurity

A top official within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) painted a vivid picture today of the modern cyber landscape, and how the threat has evolved over the past decade to include both nation-state and non-aligned adversaries.  […]

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Wireless service provider T-Mobile has agreed to move to a “modern zero trust” security architecture, take steps to segment its networks, and implement some basic cyber hygiene practices under terms of a data breach settlement with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). […]

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With nation-state and criminal adversaries in attack mode and putting an ever-higher premium on cyber resilience, some of the best practitioners on the Federal cybersecurity landscape are gathering online at the Rubrik Public Sector Summit on Oct. 8 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time to explore the next steps toward stronger resilience, and you are invited to join. […]

cybersecurity

Amid a rapidly evolving digital landscape that has made data security a top concern for Federal agencies and industry, holistic and continuous approaches to cybersecurity are important for safeguarding data and applications which depend on secure data, the chief information security officer of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said today.   […]

While a senior CrowdStrike official issued blanket apologies to House lawmakers at a Sept. 24 subcommittee hearing for the widespread Windows outages sparked on July 19 by a faulty software update from the company, leaders of the House Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee positioned the CrowdStrike outage – and process improvements the company is undertaking to avoid any repeat performance – also as a teachable moment for all concerned. […]

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Transportation Department (DoT) CIO Cordell Schachter emphasized top findings of the “Digital Dozen” Federal chief information officers whose thinking underpins MeriTalk’s “Tech Tonic: FY25 Federal CIO Forecast” report in remarks at Tech Tonic on Sept. 19, and how important it is for the Federal government to modernize IT systems to address many of those priorities.   […]

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