Biden administration
FBI/CISA Failed: Biden’s Ransomware Summit Convenes, Impotently
Richi Jennings | | Biden administration, Biden cybersecurity summit, President Biden, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, the Russians will be selling USB wristbands outside the summit, White House
The International Counter Ransomware Summit is on in D.C., with 36 nations and blocs. But will it amount to anything of substance? ...
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US Gov’t Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris
Richi Jennings | | Biden administration, CIA, Department of Commerce, FBI, five eyes, L3Harris, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, SB Blogwatch, So when is Elon Musk going to make them an offer?, White House
NSO Group, notorious makers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, has been in acquisition talks with huge defense contractor L3Harris ...
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Biden Revs Up US Quantum Plans (Because China)
Richi Jennings | | Biden administration, china, cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer, National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, post quantum, President Biden, quantum computing, quantum information science, SB Blogwatch, The white house might as well prioritize research into unicorns
This week, the White House issued a memorandum and executive order that put a shedload of wood behind the quantum-computing arrow ...
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Biden Administration Seeks 2023 Cybersecurity Spend Increase
The just-released White House fiscal year 2023 federal budget proposes nearly $11 billion in cybersecurity spending for agencies not directly in defense. The request is an 11% increase from the fiscal 2022 ...
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Biden Signs Authority for NSS to NSA: Think CISA for Military, Intel Systems
Teri Robinson | | Biden administration, executive order improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity, national security, nsa, NSS
Depending on how you look at it, President Biden’s Wednesday memorandum—which gave the NSA the type of authority over agencies operating national security systems that the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) ...
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Best of 2021 – DarkSide Ransomware Gang Struck Down — but by Whom?
Richi Jennings | | Biden administration, Colonial Pipeline, Darkside, If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, White House
DarkSide, hackers of the Colonial Pipeline, has hurriedly shut up shop. It claims that its servers and cryptocurrency balances have disappeared ...
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Aligning Cloud Security to the Cybersecurity Exec Order
Janet Matsuda | | Biden administration, Cloud Security, Container Security, Cybersecurity, white house executive order cybersecurity framework
It’s encouraging to see alignment between the Biden administration and industry around the critical nature of cybersecurity and see pragmatic steps forward. The White House’s issuance of an executive order (EO) on ...
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Malcolm Harkins Discusses the Biden Cybersecurity Summit and Effective Security
Tony Bradley | | Biden administration, Biden cybersecurity summit, Critical Infrastructure, Podcasts, Security Awareness
TechSpective Podcast Episode 075 What is the job of a CISO? Malcolm Harkins, Chief Security and Trust Officer for Epiphany Systems, joins me to answer this question–among other things. We discuss the ...
Biden EO Has Teeth, But May Prove Difficult to Implement
Teri Robinson | | Biden administration, Cyberlaw, executive order cybersecurity 2021, software supply chain
President Biden served up an Executive Order, prompted by fallout from the SolarWinds attack, that has drawn praise for the administration’s obvious commitment to cybersecurity and a willingness to put the weight ...
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The U.S. Government Needs to Overhaul Cybersecurity. Here’s How.
Jonathan Reiber | | Biden administration, Blog, Cybersecurity, Federal Government, SolarWinds, zero trust
In advance of the new Biden administration cybersecurity executive order, it’s time for the federal government to get proactive about cybersecurity. Deploying a validated zero trust architecture for the U.S. government's most ...