Harry Wingo, a former national security professor and Navy SEAL officer, will take the position next week, the Office of the National Cyber Director said.
The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director has a plan meant to address urgent problems in cybersecurity education and workforce development, according to officials. The national cyber workforce and education strategy includes initiatives meant to close a gap between demand for cybersecu...
The Obama administration will spend about $20 million on a new White House cyber unit to oversee dot-gov network security, including, for the first time, making sure agencies notify victims of breaches according to a specific timetable. The "E-gov Cyber" division, housed within the Off...
Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the United States is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing. “There is no cyberwar,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-do
The White House’s main cybersecurity directorate will be releasing a paper in the coming weeks on memory-safe software development in a bid to encourage public and private sector programmers to adopt practices that prevent hackers from compromising systems through code vulnerabilities. ...
The article offers information on the Cyberspace Policy Review released by the White House after U.S. President Barack Obama took office. Such review is noted to include cyberspace security and operations strategy, policy, and standards, reduction of threat, and response to incidents. The report'...
Pennsylvania Avenue. The People’s House experience, which opens to the public in September, features two floors of interactiveWhite Houseeducational exhibits and features an exact-to-scale replica of the Oval Office. Admission will be free of charge and furthers the Association’s education ...
But the appeals panel agreed that several federal offices and agencies, including the White House, likely violated the First Amendment by coercing the platforms’ content moderation decisions. The appeals court decision means that some federal agencies — the State Department, the Cybersecurity and Inf...
"Recent events underscore the need to accelerate the administration’s cyber strategy and confront aggressive, persistent malicious actors that continue to target our nation’s cyber infrastructure," Office of Management and Budget officials said in a statement. In addition to OPM, the White ...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2024 — Today, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface in cyberspace. ONCD makes the case that technology manufacturers can prevent entire classes of vulnerabilit...