The government’s latest Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development (R&D) Strategic Plan is placing human-centered cybersecurity at the forefront of the nation’s cyber research and development activities and investments for the next four years. […]

The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) today announced a $30 million funding opportunity to support the research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) of next generation tools to protect clean energy delivery infrastructure from cyberattacks. […]

The Aspen Institute’s US and Global Cybersecurity Groups released a new report on Tuesday that offers up recommendations on how to safely use AI in cybersecurity and steers organizations toward a “good place” where AI predominantly helps defenders. […]

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reveals that Federal agencies’ implementation of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) continued to be mostly ineffective in recent years, and it calls on the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to develop better metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of FISMA. […]

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers have sent a letter warning Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen of what they call the “problematic relationship” that China-based Quectel Wireless has with being a “civil-military fusion arm” of the Chinese government. […]

Federal agencies have improved their cybersecurity information sharing in recent years but barriers remain, according to a recent joint report released by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Intelligence Community (IC). […]

The Department of Energy’s (DoE) Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER) has announced up to $70 million in funding to support research into technologies designed to increase resilience and reduce risks to energy delivery infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber threats.  […]

The White House’s former National Cyber Director (NCD) Kemba Walden has been tapped to lead Paladin Capital Group’s new Global Institute, the investment firm announced today.   […]

With the prevalence of AI technology becoming ubiquitous in daily life, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released a new paper warning of hackers looking to potentially manipulate or “poison” AI data sets for malicious purposes. […]

The Department of Transportation (DoT) has released its annual financial report for fiscal year (FY) 2023 in which the agency shares its cybersecurity successes from 2023 and plans to further improve its cybersecurity posture in 2024. […]

The Defense Department (DoD) on Dec. 26 published its latest proposed overhaul of the agency’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0 program that would set three levels of cybersecurity compliance for defense industrial base (DIB) contractors, and allow for contractors to perform security self-assessments at some of the lower requirement levels. […]

A sampling of execs from some of the Federal government’s top IT and service vendors is showing consensus that artificial intelligence (AI) technologies will continue to be a major hot-button issue in government tech circles in 2024, with cybersecurity and workforce development also making strong showings in the new year.   […]

From implementing the National Cybersecurity Strategy to issuing broad-sweeping software security guidelines, boosting the nation’s cyber posture was top of mind for the Biden administration in 2023.  […]

The National Security Agency (NSA) published its 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review this week to share its recent cybersecurity successes, including the agency’s work to enhance national security through artificial intelligence, strategic competition, and more. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a formal request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register today looking for feedback on its secure-by-design software practices. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said that it will begin a two-year strategic effort to modernize its approach to enterprise cyber threat information sharing in 2024 “to maximize value to our partners and keep pace with a changing threat environment.”  […]

Microsoft announced this week that the company has taken down websites and other online assets used by the Storm-1152 cybercrime group, which the company said is the “number one seller and creator of fraudulent Microsoft accounts.” […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), as part of its Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) program, released a series of nine security configuration baselines for Google Workspace today, including applications like Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Meet.  […]

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a concept paper that outlines the department’s cybersecurity strategy for the healthcare sector, detailing four key actions it will take to advance cyber resiliency in the sector. […]

The U.S. Air Force laid out a list of steps it is taking to better protect and regulate access to classified data in the wake of last summer’s “Discord” breach that exposed to the public hundreds of classified military and intelligence agency documents, according to a Dec. 11 report that details the service branch’s responses to the breach. […]

A top White House cybersecurity official said Thursday that the administration’s “U.S. Cyber Trust Mark” program is on track to be released by the end of 2024. […]

The White House is calling on Federal agencies to prioritize creating internet of things (IoT) asset inventories by the end of fiscal year (FY) 2024 as a way to better gauge cybersecurity risks.  […]

Twenty of the 23 civilian Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990 agencies have failed to meet the White House’s cyber incident logging requirements by an August 2023 deadline, and according to a Dec. 4 watchdog report, 17 of these agencies were found to be at the lowest level of maturity – tier 0 – in that category. […]

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) – along with the National Security Agency (NSA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD) – have released a new cybersecurity advisory warning of continued Iranian-backed cybersecurity attacks aimed towards American and Israeli water and wastewater systems (WWS). […]

The Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Expansion Act has been reintroduced in the House as part of a bipartisan, bicameral effort to strengthen the nation’s cyber defenses and cybersecurity workforce by creating two new training programs within the Federal government. […]

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has announced the launch of advertisements for its government-wide Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce Program, meaning Federal cybersecurity employees can now apply to rotational assignments at agencies outside of their own. […]

Lawmakers and expert witnesses discussed ways the U.S. can better ensure Federal software systems are protected against cyberattacks from hostile foreign nations like China during a House Oversight Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday. […]

While every Federal agency is now required to identify network assets and vulnerabilities and provide data to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) regularly under CISA’s Binding Operational Directive (BOD), Improving Asset Visibility and Vulnerability Detection on Federal Networks, gaps persist. Bad actors continue to exploit known vulnerabilities, some of which are the consequence of highly interconnected systems and data sharing between the public and private sectors. […]

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is seeking to provide novel technologies to improve the response of both law enforcement and the intelligence community (IC) in attributing the sources of malicious cyberattacks. […]