A National Institute of Standards and Technology official said agencies are facing a variety of challenges in implementing enterprisewide zero trust architectures, from a lack of insight into their network components to difficult decisions around legacy systems and costly procurement initiatives.
Procurement experts testified to the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation on Wednesday that government requirements leave too many unanswered questions and ambiguities for federal agencies when it comes to implementing SBOMs.
A vendor focused on fast-tracking government access to commercial software closed its Series B funding round to support more classified and regulated environments. The $40 million will allow Second Front Systems to support additional bespoke networks in the U.S. Defense and National Security space.
General Electric says it is aware of claims made by "a bad actor" about gaining unauthorized access to its sensitive data and taking "appropriate measures to help protect the integrity of our systems" after a hacker known as IntelBroker advertised access to its networks and data.
In the latest weekly update, the former federal CISO, Grant Schneider, joins three editors at ISMG to discuss important cybersecurity issues, including advice for the next White House cyber director and liability concerns facing CISOs following SolarWinds and its CISO being accused of fraud.
North Korean state-affiliated hackers are continuing to exploit zero-days in popular software applications as part of global supply chain attack campaigns for espionage and financial theft purposes, British and South Korean cybersecurity and intelligence officials said.
The Australian government says it will mandate ransomware reporting by businesses, boost law enforcement capacity and fund startups with innovative cybersecurity solutions under a strategy unveiled Monday. "We cannot continue as we have," said Cyber Security and Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil.
European electoral and cybersecurity authorities on Tuesday held a joint exercise assessing plans to hold an incident-free election, weeks after trading bloc cybersecurity agency ENISA said the election is at risk from deepfake images and videos.
The Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously to approve the use of civil investigative demands for investigations related to the use of artificial intelligence, after a White House executive order on AI tasked the commission with policing competition and protecting consumers.
In the latest "Proof of Concept," Zscaler's Sam Curry and Venable's Heather West join ISMG editors to discuss the implications of President Biden's executive order on AI, how AI enhances security review processes, the potential for AI to spot software flaws, and challenges of AI talent acquisition.
FBI officials said Wednesday that the federal government is preventing advanced ransomware attacks targeting a range of institutions with the help of new information-sharing and victim engagement initiatives with organizations across the public and private sectors.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said it was setting up a variety of real-time initiatives to provide technical support and cybersecurity assistance for election offices nationwide, including an Election Day operations center and a virtual cyber situational awareness room.
The Department of Defense has published guidance calling for the rapid and responsible deployment of artificial intelligence systems across its entire enterprise while emphasizing continuous experimentation, iterative feedback loops between experts and users and enhanced data and analytics programs.
Federal agencies and Defense Industrial Base organizations need to protect data. They can use the CMMC program, the DOD Zero Trust Strategy, the cybersecurity Risk Management Framework and NIST SP 800-53 with built-in security solutions to mitigate data loss and insider risk.
Secretaries of state and election administrators told the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration that local election offices are facing a critical lack of resources and funding to support essential cybersecurity measures ahead of the upcoming voting cycle.
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