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Just days before the 2024 presidential election, Jen Easterly, the head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – and the nation’s top election security czar – foot stomped the notion that U.S. election infrastructure has never been more secure. […]

With just 50 days left until the 2024 presidential election in the United States, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly emphasized today that election infrastructure has never been more secure. […]

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With the 2024 U.S. elections just six months away, top Federal intelligence and security officials warned lawmakers that America’s foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming elections by harnessing the latest innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) technology. […]

Four key players in the establishment of U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) took a trip down memory lane at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday to discuss how they worked together to set up CYBERCOM following one of the worst military compromises in U.S. history. […]

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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. […]

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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. […]

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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. […]

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Jen Easterly, CISA at Billington Cybersecurity Summit

Two of the Federal government’s top cybersecurity officials praised a new White House report this week that offers four recommendations to fortify the resilience of the nation’s critical infrastructure – including establishing performance goals and ramping up funding for agencies that oversee the sectors. […]

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CSAC) voted on Dec. 5 to approve two recommendations for the agency to consider on advancing memory safe system languages (MSSL), and on further strengthening operational collaboration. […]

Jen Easterly, CISA

As AI technologies are increasingly used to create deceptive content, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly said on Tuesday that Americans can remain confident in U.S. election infrastructure, but also warned that the information environment is at risk. […]

Jen Easterly, CISA at Billington Cybersecurity Summit

As the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) finishes up the rulemaking process for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA), CISA Director Jen Easterly said today that trusted partnerships are vital to sharing threat information in the meantime. […]

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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly announced this week that the agency’s workforce has expanded to 3,160 employees, after the agency made more than 1,300 new hire over the past two years. […]

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The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said this week that the United States needs to take a page out of Ukraine’s cyber playbook and build more resiliency into its critical infrastructure now. […]

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Jen Easterly, CISA

The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) component is working every day to reduce risks to the cyber and physical infrastructure that Americans rely on – but CISA Director Jen Easterly said today that effort relies on public-private partnership to help mitigate those risks through technological innovation. […]

Jen Easterly, CISA

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly said today she is confident that Congress will give CISA the funding it needs to execute on its mission even in times of skinnier Federal budgets, and emphasized her belief that cybersecurity is an issue with substantial bipartisan support among lawmakers. […]

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Members of the House Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter to Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on May 23 asking about the agency’s progress in defending critical information and communications technology (ICT) supply chains. […]

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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly warned on Thursday that the United States needs to quickly determine the regulatory landscape for development of AI technologies, which she said have the potential to become the most consequential – and perhaps dangerous – technologies of the 21st century. […]

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The director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is calling out technology manufacturers for failing to create tech products that put the safety of customers first, and is calling for a new secure-by-design, secure-by-default cybersecurity model. […]

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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly is considering a big basket of recommendations delivered this week by the agency’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee, including suggestions that the agency boost its workforce development and acquisition efforts and establish a new chief people officer position. […]

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As the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) continues to grapple with the early stages of a rulemaking process for recently enacted cyber incident reporting legislation, CISA Director Jen Easterly said it will be crucial to develop trust with the private sector so that the law is seen as “value-added” and not a burden. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on June 6 unveiled its latest cybersecurity public service campaign – aimed at trying to boost adoption of multifactor authentication (MFA) – coinciding with the opening of the RSA Conference in San Francisco, where agency leadership including Director Jen Easterly will be speaking this week. […]

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