Targeted industries included, among others, aviation, defense, education, government, health care, biopharmaceutical and maritime. Keep Reading
TrueFort, the zero trust application protection company, today announced that Marios Damianides, former Consulting Partner and Northeast Region Cybersecurity Leader at Ernst & Young, has joined the TrueFort Advisory Board where he will provide guidance on corporate, customer and product strategies. Keep Reading
New research commissioned by Tanium and conducted by The Harris Poll finds that most Americans want the government to prioritize security. Keep Reading
Officials "worked hard to find best way to set aggressive and achievable efforts" including using "the power of federal procurement." Keep Reading
Online jihadists say the development was necessary due to "restriction of technology companies." Keep Reading
Reps. Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) and Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) on Friday urged the Department of Education to prioritize protecting K-12 institutions from cyberattacks, which have shot up in the past year as classes moved increasingly online during the COVID-19 pandemic. Keep Reading
Renee is also an Adjunct Professor at Morehouse College where she helps to prepare our next generation to enter the cyber workforce. Keep Reading
President Joe Biden laid out a series of cybersecurity initiatives last week at his inauguration, including earmarking $10 billion for various cybersecurity defense initiatives. Those included hiring key security personnel to support for the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Keep Reading
President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise, drawing praise from former defense officials and investigators as the U.S. government works to recover from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies attributed to Russian spies. Keep Reading
The agenda will include updates on changes to the Industrial Security and Personnel Vetting policies and topics such as, How to Run an Effective Insider Threat Program, Controlled Unclassified Information, and more. Keep Reading
A 25+-year investor, executive, and entrepreneur in technology and a top influencer in national security and cybersecurity, Howe was most recently chief strategy officer and senior vice president of strategy and operations at RSA. Keep Reading
The Council will share transformational technologies, organizational skills, and defense best practices with the goal of improving overall security program effectiveness and efficiency. Keep Reading
The newly formed 16-member Cyber Investigations Advisory Board (CIAB) will provide the Secret Service’s Office of Investigations with outside strategic input for the agency’s investigative mission, including insights on the latest trends in cybercrime, financial crime, technology, and investigative techniques. Keep Reading
How do you secure existing legacy IT systems without the budgetary, labor or infrastructure resources required to upgrade? Keep Reading
Only 15% of cybersecurity startups launched in 2020 secured funding. However, three companies alone collected nearly 96% ($30.3 million) of the total amount of investments. Keep Reading
Even as cybersecurity-based risks and the costs of dealing with those risks are increasing, measuring cybersecurity remains an under-developed topic—one in which there is not even a standard taxonomy for terms such as “measurements” and “metrics.” Keep Reading
As the number of cybersecurity threats to our nation’s commercial and government organizations increase, there is a critical need to implement new and effective information sharing tools. Keep Reading
Wickr Inc., the secure collaboration platform, today announced the appointment of Blake Moore as Vice President of Strategy and Operations. Moore joins the company from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), where he most recently served as Chief of Staff for the Chief Information Officer (CIO). At Wickr, Moore will lead company strategy with a focus… Keep Reading
Nielsen will focus on how to manage risk in today’s quickly evolving world and how to increase resilience throughout our communities. In particular, she will focus on the state of America’s cyber preparedness. Keep Reading
Congress should pass a law to hold companies accountable for developing information technology products that don’t follow cybersecurity best practices, Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., said. Keep Reading