Warner wants answers on Florida water utility hack
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) wants more information from the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency about the recent cybersecurity breach at a Florida water utility.
Ransomware gangs are running riot -- paying them off doesn’t help
Building a more robust cybersecurity culture stands a better chance of repelling ransomware gangs than calling in the cavalry or paying off cybercriminals.
Despite security concerns, online voting advances
Security experts understand the desire of entrepreneurs and election officials to use new voting methods to reach voters who may be disenfranchised by in-person or mail-in voting, but the security risk might be too great, they say.
When cybersecurity info sharing makes headlines
When the sheriff of Oldsmar, Fla., held a press conference to discuss a hack into the city’s water treatment facility, many cybersecurity experts were surprised – not by the hack, but by the publicity.
5 tech trends for 2021
This year, agencies should expect not just greater adoption of automation, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics, but a more comprehensive security posture that includes everything from zero trust to continuous monitoring of the supply chain.
Expect more nation-state cyberattacks, Krebs says
Attacks from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea will likely continue “until the leadership has decided that it cannot tolerate further behavior," former CISA Director Chris Krebs told the House Homeland Security Committee.
State and local digital infrastructure is rife with vulnerabilities
The unfortunate reality is that state and local agencies either don’t prioritize cybersecurity threats correctly or don’t have the money -- or the technical expertise -- to harden their computing environments on their own.
SolarWinds Fallout: Practices to strengthen data protection
New technologies and processes, such as continuous security, zero trust and machine learning, can help agencies protect sensitive data.
NIST posts enhanced requirements for protecting CUI
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published requirements that can help organizations protect controlled unclassified information against nation-state backed threats.
NIST testing automated delivery of new security controls
Starting this summer, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will begin to automate delivery of revisions to Special Publication 800-53.
Validating the security of contact tracing apps
The Department of Homeland Security has tapped a startup to ensure that contact tracing apps protect users’ security, privacy and civil liberties.
Future-proofing big data security
Mathematically enforced privacy solutions feature built-in privacy preservation that allows agencies to leverage their data more effectively.
North Korea targeted cybersecurity researchers using a blend of hacking and espionage
The North Korean operation highlights three important trends: stealing cyberweapons from industry, social media as a weapon and the blurring of cyber and information warfare.
Why IT asset management is critical for CDM
IT asset management is much more than a technology or a software solution; it is a strategy that aligns an agency’s internal asset management processes with the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program’s security objectives.
The U.S. spent $2.2 million on a cybersecurity system that wasn’t implemented — and might have stopped a major hack
A cybersecurity system called in-toto, which the government paid to develop but never required, might have protected against the SolarWinds hack.
In search of a smarter Einstein
If the Einstein intrusion detection system was unlikely to have detected the malware that was delivered via the SolarWinds Orion update, how can it be fixed?
TSA, Delta test biometric check-in for domestic flights
The Transportation Security Administration is working with Delta Airlines and the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to test a touchless system that verifies a domestic passenger’s digital identity with customer’s passport number, TSA PreCheck membership and a live photo.
Utah shares hard lessons on privacy, bias
The state auditor’s software procurement principles are designed to help agencies review applications for privacy violations and potential algorithmic bias.
Supply chain insecurity threatens national security
Until the U.S. gets serious about supply chain management generally, and cybersecurity specifically, the nation will be unable to shift its thinking from “just in time” to “just in case.”
See the unseen: Using RF detection for health, safety, and security
A wireless device detection system that scans facility airspace 24/7 can help agencies enforce policies and defend against a wide variety of threats, ranging from rogue state actors to employees bringing in their own wireless access points.
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