Founded in 2011, Colorado Springs, Colo. based root9B Technologies touted itself as an IT security training firm staffed by an impressive list of ex-military leaders with many years of cybersecurity experience at the Department of Defense and National Security Agency (NSA). As it began to attra...
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The executive board of the National Association of Secretaries of State sent a letter, first obtained by POLITICO, to Homeland Security Secretary KRISTI NOEM pushing to save the department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA. It’s one of the first bipartisan efforts to ar...
Biden Nominates Harry Coker to Be National Cyber Director More (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday nominated Harry Coker, who has served in leadership positions at the CIA and the National Security Agency, for the role of national cyber director, the White House said, after ...
A capacity crowd of students, professors, and state dignitaries gathered in the hallway outside the Minot State University Cyber Center in Old Main on Wednesday. The University announced that the Management Information Systems program has been designated by the National Security Agency and...
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) promotes the security benefits that can come from cloud adoption. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has also recognised this with its blog post ‘More Secure in the Public Cloud’. The following IDC paper looks at the initiatives causing agencies to...
The NSA is probably the most advanced and active group worldwide in the area of cyberterrorism. Bruce Schneier observes that "The National Security Agency is lying to us. We know that because data stolen from an NSA server was dumped on the Internet. The agency is hoarding information about...
On March 21, President Biden released a statement highlighting the imminent threat to our nation’s cybersecurity. That same day, Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger said in a press briefing, “We’ve previously warned about the potential for Russia to conduct cyberattacks against the ...
Deploy cybersecurity best practices like encryption to protect the integrity of wire instructions. Take a communicative and collaborative approach within your agency to ensure that critical details are never missed and that more people are looking out for relevant red flags. ...
National Security Agency and was last updated in April of 2000. Though originally intended for national security systems, any federal agency (or private enterprise) can adopt and use the NIACAP process as long as their oversight authority allows it. However, as of this writing, systems that ...