A game to bridge the cyber training gap
CyberWar: 2025 increases players' knowledge and experience of the planning, preparation, execution and assessment of joint cyberspace operations.
Paper trails and random audits could secure all elections -- don’t save them just for recounts in close races
The prospect of audits will in itself deter anyone with malicious intent, reducing the likelihood of an attack. And the audits themselves will help the voting public be sure any tampering is likely to be discovered.
GAO: CMS needs better security for its Medicare beneficiary data
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services isn’t doing enough to secure data that is accessed by external entities, GAO found.
Security fundamentals: Log management
Log management plays a central role in facilitating effective cyber situational awareness across an agency.
How NIST helps facial recognition make better matches
The National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Face Recognition Vendor Test evaluates the algorithms used in facial recognition technologies.
Estonia experiments with blockchain, smart services and 'data embassies'
Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid discussed how the country's digital service and security efforts serve its citizens.
Crypto crumpling could solve the encryption conundrum
Researchers have found a way to maximize user privacy while still giving governments "exceptional access" to encrypted data.
It's time for a new approach to segmentation
Inserting a trust-aware boundary between corporate access networks and servers creates zero-trust partitions that strands adversaries before they can reach critical assets.
Alabama governor signs data breach notification law
With the new measure requiring residents be informed with 45 days of a data breach, Alabama becomes the 50th state to enact a consumer data breach notification law.
The next link in the (block)chain
The Blockchain Playbook can help agencies move forward with development and deployment of the distributed-ledger technology for their specific use cases.
CUI compliance: The proxy approach
If controlled unclassified information can be consolidated onto an isolated, protected network, applying a single point proxy can accelerate and simplify compliance.
Competing to defend the energy grid
The Department of Energy is holding a competition requiring participants to build and defend a grid against adversaries.
New York secures its public Wi-Fi
NYC Secure will protect the city's public Wi-Fi networks with a DNS security service and offer a free city-sponsored smartphone app to alert users when suspicious activity is detected on their mobile devices.
Elections commission announces security funding
For the first time in eight years, states are getting a financial infusion to improve their elections infrastructure ahead of the 2018 elections.
California develops its own cybersecurity metrics
The California Cybersecurity Maturity Metrics are designed to help state agencies evaluate their risk postures through qualitative and quantitative measures.
Trump-approved budget short on election security, counties say
The funding is certainly welcomed by local election officials, but many of them warn it falls far short of what they need to deal with security challenges ahead of the midterm elections in November.
Protecting election registration sites from cyber intrusions
The Albert network monitoring solution provides automated alerts on both traditional and advanced network threats.
Indiana's risk-based strategy for tax fraud detection
With tax day less than three weeks away, the Indiana Department of Revenue is utilizing fraud analytics to detect anomalies in returns.
Limiting security risks in telecom equipment
The Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules that would effectively bar the use of telecommunications equipment from foreign suppliers who are deemed a threat to national security.
Security through chaos engineering: No more 'set it and forget it'
Organizations that don’t stress test the security of their infrastructure, "are slowly drifting into the unknown," one security architect says.
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