Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the ranking member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, is criticizing the Small Business Administration (SBA) for investing in artificial intelligence while the agency is struggling with basic IT security. […]

Amid concerns of cybersecurity personnel shortages, IT and IT security managers are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) and automated solutions to compensate, and believe those options will end up improving the IT and cybersecurity industry, according to a new report by the Ponemon Institute and DomainTools. […]

Government-wide security clearance processes, and the half million-plus backlog in the clearance applications pipeline, made the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) High-Risk report last week as a contributing factor to the larger problem of ensuring IT security, generally. […]