The grant program requires state and local governments to spend 30 percent of their funds on “National Priority Areas,” which are designated threat categories such as cybersecurity. FEMA has changed these priority areas over time, for example, by adding an election security area in fiscal year ...
Anotice of funding opportunityfor the fiscal 2023 iteration of the Homeland Security Grant Program stipulates that states and localities must now commit at least that much toward a slew of election-security concerns, including cybersecurity, physical protections for voting equipment and polling locations...
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and election security," Mayorkas said.The Emergency Operations Center Security Grant Program provides more than $49 million to improve emergency management and preparedness capabilities by supporting flexible, sustainable, secure, strategically located, and fully interoperable emergency operations centers with ...
According to S&Tcybersecurityresearch and development program manager Anil John, this is something the agency is keenly interested in: “You need to have control over the Blockchain wallet when making attestations or conducting operations that are related to any type of Blockchain. We are...
For instance,a recent Government Accountability Office reportshowed 18 agencies deployed some kind of facial recognition program in 2020, including 16 cybersecurity use cases, six for criminal investigations and five for physical building security. That report did not go into other forms of b...
In October, officials from DHS and the Department of Energyannouncedan initiative to coordinate with oil and gas executives on pipeline cybersecurity. After the meeting, TSA Administrator David Pekoske cited his agency’s “longstanding relationships with pipeline operators” as the basis for a strong...
The tightness of an election is just one factor to guide where the Homeland Security Department will field its Election Day cybersecurity teams.
Bennett said CBP has a rapid and growing need, especially for “small” unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. But unlike larger drones designed to military specifications, many small UAVs are far more vulnerable to hacking and location spoofing. Consider how easily Chinese cybersecurity researchers Lin...
It seems whoever came up with this list isn’t very well educated in computer security. In the Cyber Security section they have Mysql injection opposed to SQL injection. (Sarcasm) From their list we can conclude that the only DBMS vulnerable to a bad client application is MySQL. So if you...