Fed IT Officials Urge Faster Pace on Zero Trust Implementation Apr 26, 2021 | 4:36 pm Senior Federal IT experts – including the current and former Federal CISO and the Pentagon’s top IT official – are expressing broad agreement that the necessary ingredients are at hand to begin implementing zero trust security concepts for government networks, and that the time to act is now. […]
Federal CISO DeRusha Cites SolarWinds Response as Promising ‘Use Case’ Apr 23, 2021 | 10:35 am The combined response of the Federal government and the private sector to the Russia-based cyberattack of government and business networks via SolarWinds Orion software is making for a promising use case for addressing major incidents in the future, said Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Chris DeRusha on April 22. […]
CISA’s Wales Pledges Quick Action to Accelerate CDM Deployments Mar 19, 2021 | 9:42 am The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) told senators on March 18 that CISA is making efforts to complete deployment at Federal civilian agencies of the first two phases of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program by the end of this year as part of a push to shore up Federal cybersecurity after the SolarWinds Orion hack. […]
Fed CISO DeRusha Calls New Funding ‘Down Payment’ on Security Improvements Mar 18, 2021 | 4:38 pm Federal CISO Christopher DeRusha said today that new IT modernization and security funding streams stemming from the American Rescue Plan Act represent a “down payment” on extensive work that needs to be done to improve Federal agency network security. […]
DeRusha Tapped to Become Next Federal CISO Jan 26, 2021 | 5:50 pm Chris DeRusha, who headed information security efforts for the Biden-Harris campaign last year, will become the Federal government’s next chief information security officer, Federal government security officials said today. […]