Cybersecurity
Next Clean Energy Cyber Cohort Will Focus on Identifying Rogue Assets
The Energy Department’s Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator matches innovators in critical infrastructure cybersecurity with industry experts and a high-tech testbed.
Cybersecurity
Interior’s Cyber Practices Allow for Easily Crackable Passwords, Watchdog Finds
An OIG investigation found that the Interior Department has not fully implemented multifactor authentication and that its “outdated and ineffective” password requirements leave employees’ accounts vulnerable to exploitation.
Cybersecurity
FCC Rule Would Require Telecom Providers to Immediately Disclose Sensitive Data Breaches
The Federal Communications Commission’s proposed rule would require telecommunications providers to immediately notify consumers and federal agencies about any breaches involving “customer proprietary network information.”
Cybersecurity
IARPA aims to thwart cyberattacks with psychology
The intelligence research agency is looking to deploy and automate hackers' cognitive biases to help defend potential cyberattacks.
Cybersecurity
What Should the Government Do in 2023 to Fill its Cyber Workforce Shortage?
The threat of cyberattacks makes filling these positions critical, experts say.
Cybersecurity
The Federal Government is Moving on Memory Safety for Cybersecurity
The issue of how coding languages might support software developers’ management of memory has recently gotten attention from the National Security Council, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Congress.
Cybersecurity
Military Branches Losing Expensive Cyber Talent to the Private Sector, Watchdog Says
The Government Accountability Office found that the lack of required service time commitments within some of the military branches is making it difficult to retain personnel who have completed expensive and advanced cyber courses.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers highlight cyber, new tech and space in proposed spending bill
The $1.7 trillion omnibus introduced by lawmakers on Tuesday would spur on investments in cutting-edge technologies, cyber defense and space during the 2023 fiscal year.
Digital Government
Lawmakers Highlight Cyber, New Tech and Space in Proposed Spending Bill
The $1.7 trillion omnibus introduced by lawmakers on Tuesday would spur on investments in cutting-edge technologies, cyber defense and space during the 2023 fiscal year.
Cybersecurity
Cyber Director’s Preview of National Strategy Highlights Federal Software Procurement
The national cyber director also indicated plans to rely on feedback from members of the software industry who are working on recommendations for “streamlining” sector-specific regulations.
Cybersecurity
DHS Seeks Ideas for Automated Cyberattack Detectors in Annual Notice
The annual solicitation from the Small Business Innovation Research program seeks proposals for addressing seven different technology issues facing the Department of Homeland Security.
Cybersecurity
CMS Subcontractor Breach Potentially Exposes Sensitive Data of 254,000 Customers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid said the breach involved a subcontractor that appears to have violated its obligations to the agency.
Cybersecurity
GAO Highlights Interoperability Challenges With Zero Trust
A cybersecurity specialist from the watchdog is ready to dive into related policy implications, but says work on agencies’ implementation is the more immediate concern.
Cybersecurity
Preparations for Quantum Cyber Threat Get a Senate Boost
The bill would require an annual report to Congress from the Office of Management and Budget with the goal of identifying funding needed for agencies’ transition to post-quantum cryptography.
Cybersecurity
FERC Chairman Wants to Update Cybersecurity Requirements
Discussion of potential changes centered on a need for software transparency and independent supply-chain assessments.
Cybersecurity
China's Reported Manipulation of Twitter Draws Lawmaker Questions
Several Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee sent a letter to Twitter CEO Elon Musk expressing national security concerns about reports that Beijing launched an information suppression campaign to hide news of mass public protests.
Digital Government
Pentagon Awards $9B Cloud Contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle
The Pentagon has awarded its JEDI cloud contract replacement.
Policy
Key Cyber and Tech Provisions Included—and Excluded—from the Final NDAA
This year, provisions that were ultimately left out of the massive annual Defense authorization bill—despite in some cases bipartisan agreement across both Congressional chambers—got the most attention.
Cybersecurity
Cyber Safety Review Board to focus its next report on the Lapsus$ extortion group
The Cyber Safety Review Board has announced its plans to focus a sweeping cybersecurity report on a series of recent attacks linked to the global ransomware group Lapsus$.
Cybersecurity