In an effort to act on the initiatives assigned to it in the Biden-Harris administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP), the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced today that it is “supercharging” its cybercrime division by merging it with the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET). […]

The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released its request for information (RFI) on cybersecurity regulatory harmonization and regulatory reciprocity today, seeking input from stakeholders to understand existing challenges with regulatory overlap and inconsistency. […]

Microsoft cloud service customers will now have access to expanded cloud logging capabilities at no additional cost, thanks to a new collaborative partnership announced today between the tech company and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). […]

The White House today announced the launch of a new “U.S. Cyber Trust Mark” program, which will label cyber-secure smart devices and help Americans more easily choose devices that are less vulnerable to cyberattacks. […]

Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, introduced legislation this week that would establish a Digital Economy and Cybersecurity Board of Advisers at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). The bill comes as lawmakers are working to reauthorize the NTIA – a Commerce Department component – for the first time since 1992. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) has failed to address prohibited telecom items offered on its Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts, “putting customers at risk of unauthorized surveillance of foreign adversaries,” the agency’s watchdog said in a new report published on Monday. […]

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske published the third edition of the agency’s Administrator’s Intent document last week, which outlines the agency’s planned actions through 2025 to achieve the vision and key technology and cyber objectives from TSA’s eight-year strategy released in 2018. […]

The White House released the 2023 National Cybersecurity Strategy almost 20 years to the month that the George W. Bush administration released its National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace in 2003. MeriTalk sat down with Simon Szykman, senior vice president for client growth at Maximus and a contributor to the 2003 strategy, to discuss the similarities and differences between the strategies and assess the work that still needs to be done to strengthen our nation’s cybersecurity. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is looking to add a “select number” of critical infrastructure (CI) partnerships with industry to its CyberSentry program, CISA Associate Director for Threat Hunting Jermaine Roebuck wrote in a June 29 blog post. […]

Tech giant International Business Machines (IBM) has called on the government to establish a shared service center of excellence to develop protections against supply chain disruptions, according to a recent report it released in collaboration with experts from government, business, academia, and the nonprofit sectors. […]

Sharks are no longer the only threat to undersea cables. According to cybersecurity researchers, the Russia-Ukraine war, the United States’ rising tensions with China, and insatiable data demands are driving up the risks for communication cables within the oceans. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) plans to release a training program to help Federal agencies better understand and operationalize cyber supply chain risk management (C-SCRM), CISA’s C-SCRM Project Management Office Lead said today. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the first series of final security guidance resources under its Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) project today. […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking to guide officials from the water sector on how to address cyber challenges that impact water infrastructure. […]

With higher salaries on the horizon, attrition is down at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), but TSA’s top official said Thursday that a House funding bill for fiscal year 2024 would force the agency to reverse forthcoming pay increases – and cut down on the agency’s ability to defend against cyberattacks. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) held its second quarter Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CSAC) meeting on June 22, where subcommittee chairs shared progress updates on their work. […]

Three members of the House Armed Services Committee unveiled a bipartisan measure late last week aimed at strengthening cybersecurity practices for the United States’ nuclear weapons system, and aim to advance that measure in legislation this week. […]

A cyberattack has impacted several Federal agencies, who have experienced intrusions affecting their MOVEit applications, according to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA). […]

Leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Subcommittee will soon travel overseas for meetings on cybersecurity subjects as part of an official congressional delegation (CODEL). […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and a host of overseas cybersecurity authorities today published a joint cybersecurity advisory on the threat posed by LockBit ransomware. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a binding operational directive today that requires Federal civilian agencies to take action to protect network management interfaces from the public-facing internet. […]

A new progress report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that despite several years of efforts, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its contractors are still in the “early stages” of addressing cybersecurity threats at the system level in  operational technology (OT) and nuclear weapons IT environments. […]

The Interior Department took a beating at a House hearing on June 7 delving into the agency’s ineffective password protections revealed earlier this year, while a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official called on President Biden to solidify Federal agency cybersecurity leadership by appointing a permanent National Cyber Director. […]

The White House released its National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS) in March, and the Office of National Cyber Director (ONCD) is working fast to develop an implementation plan and a workforce strategy to build a more resilient future. […]

A decade-old directive from the White House on public-private collaboration for the protection of critical infrastructure is outdated and incapable of meeting today’s demands, according to a June 6 report by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0. (CSC 2.0).  […]

A bipartisan group senators wants to authorize cybersecurity cooperation between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and nations that have signed onto the Abraham Accords countries through a new piece of legislation introduced on May 31. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), the FBI, and international cybersecurity agencies issued a joint cybersecurity advisory to highlight a recently discovered cluster of cyber activity linked to a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor dubbed Volt Typhoon. […]

Dell Technologies today introduced a new end-to-end zero trust security solution – dubbed Project Fort Zero – for global organizations to protect against cyberattacks. […]

The Deputy CIO for Cybersecurity at the Defense Department (DoD) said on May 18 that the Pentagon is in the process of creating a Defense Industrial Base (DIB) Cybersecurity Strategy and estimated that it would be made available to the public later this year. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sent out a new contract opportunity notice on May 11 seeking private sector interest in a five-year contract to support the agency’s VA Cybersecurity Operations Center (VA CSOC). […]