Utah launches cyber task force
The Governor’s Cybersecurity Task Force will promote cybersecurity awareness, share information, identify cybersecurity assets and resources, promote best practices and enhance cyber capabilities and response.
Protecting workloads from sophisticated supply chain attacks
True runtime protection can determine, within milliseconds, if the code currently being executed by the workload came from the software developer or from an attacker.
California’s new strategy for prioritizing cyber defense
With its first multiyear cybersecurity roadmap, California is addressing critical gaps in the state’s information and cybersecurity programs, allowing it to better manage both existing and future threats.
Natural disasters can set the stage for cyberattacks
Hackers launching an attack that coincides with a natural disaster could greatly hamper first responders, hospitals, utilities and government agencies and create a domino effect involving loss of electrical power, water, telecommunications and other infrastructure.
Quantum computing: Expensive, uncertain, nascent -- and essential
The Government Accountability Office checked in with quantum computing experts to distill thinking on the technology’s potential applications, benefits and drawbacks; factors that could affect development; and policy options to help address those factors.
5 ways to keep vaccine ‘cold chain’ safe from hackers
Health systems can protect themselves from electromagnetic interference that fools temperature sensors into giving false readings.
FCC commissioner calls for tighter restrictions on DJI drones
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called for prohibiting Universal Service Fund dollars from being used to purchase DJI equipment and suggested the company be placed on its covered list.
Cybersecurity blind spot: AI’s inherent vulnerabilities
Artificial intelligence systems’ need for access to many large datasets often doesn’t align with current cybersecurity fundamentals and implementations.
Report: Public-sector cyber forecast looks mostly sunny
Government IT managers are identifying and implementing the right security technologies, targeting initiatives, appropriating funding and seeing pandemic stressors decline, a new survey found.
Scaling up secure, single sign-on
With nearly $187 million in Technology Modernization Fund investment, GSA will increase Login.gov’s cybersecurity for current and future users, add equitable identity verification and in-person options for vulnerable populations and make it easier for agencies to provide Login.gov to more citizens.
Joint cyber advisory issued for water treatment facilities
To help water and wastewater utilities protect their IT and operational technology systems from cyberattack, the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, Environmental Protection Agency and National Security Agency have outlined steps facilities can to take steps to defend themselves.
Biden signs school cybersecurity bill
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is tasked with studying the cyber risks facing elementary and secondary schools and developing recommendations to assist schools in facing those risks.
Report: Government is the most-targeted sector by nation-state attackers
Nation-state cyber attackers are keeping their sights set on government-related organizations, which suffered nearly 80% of attacks in the last year, according to Microsoft’s FY21 Digital Defense Report.
Challenge seeks mobile fingerprint capture tech for responders
The Mobile Fingerprinting Innovation Technology Challenge aims to inspire the development of commercial and open source applications and hardware accessories that will allow law enforcement officers capture high-quality fingerprints with a mobile device.
DOD launches 'continuous vetting'
In a partially automated process, continuous vetting checks a variety of data sources and flags employees’ concerning behavior or circumstances as part of the security clearance process.
Managing privileged access for ‘critical’ software
By focusing on privileged access security controls, agencies can substantively boost protection of critical software and harden supply-chain security while also enhancing protection for other assets and identities.
Ransomware threats calls for tough conversations
As ransomware attacks on U.S. public and private organizations increase, the federal government may have to have tough conversations with other nations, especially as the lines between nation-state and criminal actors blur.
It’s time to start taking digital identity seriously
Asymmetric cryptography, where freely available public keys can be used to verify a private key held by one person, is a highly scalable, robust method for keeping digital IDs secure.
Latest TMF awards underscore cybersecurity
Of the seven new Technology Modernization Fund awards announced Sept 29, four are dedicated to improving cybersecurity, primarily through the transition to zero-trust solutions.
Maryland outlaws ransomware, calls for statewide security strategy
Two new laws that took effect Oct. 1 aim to boost security standards for state and local governments and punish perpetrators of ransomware attacks.
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