Department of Defense
Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada
Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botnet that enslaved millions of devices for use in a series of ...
Anthropic and the Pentagon
OpenAI is in and Anthropic is out as a supplier of AI technology for the US defense department. This news caps a week of bluster by the highest officials in the US ...
How MOSA Principles Will Reshape the DoD RMF
The Department of Defense (DoD) faces the dual imperative of accelerating technology adoption to maintain operational advantage while also hardening systems against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats ...
CMMC 2.0 in Action: Operationalizing Secure Software Practices Across the Defense Industrial Base
For years, the DoD has lost sensitive Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) through breaches in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). Adversaries targeted smaller, less secure subcontractors to steal valuable intellectual property tied to ...
DoD-Ready Software: Embracing the SWFT Initiative with Confidence
The Department of Defense's (DoD) new Software Fast Track (SWFT) Initiative is more than a policy shift — it's a transformation in how software is evaluated, acquired, and deployed across defense agencies ...
Understanding SWFT, the latest effort to modernize DoD software procurement
Software bill of materials (SBOMs) have become essential tools in securing today's software supply chains. Their ability to provide a unified, shareable, and machine-readable record of an application's components is extremely valuable ...
The Ghost in the Machine
A recent report described the discovery of a cellular device embedded in a solar power inverter, which was not documented or known to be present until the device was dismantled and physically ...
The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a US attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on March 15, is seemingly now suggesting that the secure messaging service ...
Key takeaways from the latest DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Fundamentals update
As the cybersecurity landscape changes and threats evolve, the Department of Defense (DoD) has updated its Enterprise DevSecOps Fundamentals to align development practices with security imperatives further. This is part of a ...
Drones and the US Air Force
Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield—that is, Ukraine—and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change. The F-35A certainly remains an important platform ...
