Digital transformation and the adoption of emerging technologies have served as major catalysts for innovation and progress for the federal government in recent years. However, as agencies move to the cloud, capabilities extend to the tactical edge and remote work continues, the traditional perimeters of an organization are extending and even disapp...
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Cybersecurity has become the latest frontier in national security with the expansion and proliferation of the digital environment in recent decades. Today, cyber is also an emerging and important component of warfighting, and the U.S. government has placed a high priority on better protecting our critical information, data and cyber assets as the th...
This October is Cybersecurity Awareness month, and the federal government is taking multiple actions to better inform, prepare and protect Americans in the face of rising cyber threats. In a Sep. 30 proclamation, President Biden encouraged not only government and industry organizations, but also American citizens to employ measures like enablin...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has been at the center of many of the White House’s cyber initiatives, policies and executive orders within the past few years. Now, just after the one year anniversary of President Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity, CISA is focusing on zero trust, modernization and workforce developmen...
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions has agreed to acquire business intelligence and strategic advisory firm Next5 for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to pursue growth, expand its line of cybersecurity platforms and support its customers in navigating cyberthreats and meeting their missions. Bryan Ware, founder and CEO of Next5, will serve as CEO of L...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, the FBI and international partners have issued a joint advisory offering several measures managed service providers and customers can take to protect themselves from malicious cyber actors. The advisory outlines baseline security measures and controls that should be ...
The Office of the National Cyber Director has announced the appointment of cybersecurity leaders Kemba Walden, Neal Higgins and Rob Knake to help Chris DeRusha, federal chief information security officer and deputy national cyber director for federal cybersecurity, meet ONCD’s mission to protect U.S. citizens in cyberspace and enable them to benef...
Matt Hayden, a more than two-decade cybersecurity professional, has joined General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business as vice president of cyber client engagement. He will help advance General Dynamics Information Technology’s cyber growth strategies and thought leadership and forge relationships with government leaders and ind...
On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity. In the year since the executive order’s release, the federal government has implemented a host of cybersecurity initiatives, standards and policy measures to protect agencies and their industry partners against the increasing threat of cyber ...
