Federal Government
Critical Infrastructure Security Needs an Overhaul
The security policies underpinning the nation’s critical infrastructure sectors and protecting them from cyberattacks are outdated and require comprehensive overhaul, according to a recent report by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission 2.0. According ...
Dell Launches Project Fort Zero Service to Accelerate Zero-Trust IT Shift
Dell Technologies today launched a Project Fort Zero cybersecurity services initiative that promises to make it simpler for organizations to transition to zero-trust IT environments. The initiative is based on a reference ...
Is RBI the key to the White House’s new cybersecurity strategy?
The Biden administration announced a new national cybersecurity strategy earlier this month. As digital transformation continues to radically change how the country lives, works, communicates and plays, the new federal cybersecurity strategy ...
4 evasive web browser attacks targeting federal agencies
The way federal employees work has changed dramatically over the past three years. Digital transformation, cloud migration and hybrid work models have spread out infrastructure and endpoints away from the central data ...
How federal agencies can prevent evasive web threats
2023 is shaping up to be a transformative year for security teams in the federal government. Regulations, such as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) that requires agencies to better authenticate remote ...
White House Bans TikTok on Federal Devices
Federal agencies have 30 days to remove the popular Chinese social media app TikTok from federal government devices, according to a guidance memorandum issued by the White House. The memo, written by ...
US Marshals Ransomware Hack is ‘Major Incident’
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) has been hacked (again). Scrotes stole sensitive stuff (supposedly) ...
Combatting Zero Trust fatigue: 5 ways federal agencies can shift from buzzword to action
It’s difficult to have a serious cybersecurity discussion today without the conversation eventually ending up at Zero Trust. This is especially true in the federal government where agencies have been mandated to ...
White House cybersecurity Executive Order: Where we stand 18 months later
It’s been 18 months since the president issued an executive order (EO) compelling federal agencies to modernize their cybersecurity capabilities in the face of growing threats from around the world. The recommended ...
Gov’t Adds Open Source Security to Software Supply Chain
The federal government is stepping up to protect the software supply chain. Last year, president Biden signed an executive order to improve national cybersecurity and bring better protection to federal government networks ...
