Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a 2024 Wash100 awardee, said the president’s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget of $3.01 billion for CISA includes $470 million for
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National Cyber Director Harry Coker Jr. announced at a recent White House event the intent of the federal government to transition by summer the Information Technology Management job series — which encompasses
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The Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office and the National Science Foundation have partnered to form a new research center that will provide research, thought leadership and analysis support to help
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The Department of Defense is requesting proposals from industry sources capable of providing a joint cyber hunt kit prototype designed to conduct hunt operations on defense networks. The Defense Innovation Unit said
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency completed 1,754 notifications to critical infrastructure organizations in calendar year 2023 through its Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot program. Launched in March 2023, the RVWP program seeks
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MITRE has incorporated the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification into Cyber Resiliency Engineering Framework Navigator, a tool that works to help engineers in their decision-making process when designing cyber-resilient capabilities.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a supplement to an existing NIST Special Publication to provide interim guidance for agencies that intend to use syncable authenticators in public-facing and
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The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the federal government complete the implementation of the leadership and oversight requirements outlined in a 2021 executive order on protecting federal information technology systems from
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The Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center, also known as DC3, and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency have partnered to create a program that seeks to bring vulnerability disclosure capabilities to
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its U.S. and international partners have released a joint cybersecurity advisory, or CSA, warning organizations against the Akira ransomware that has targeted critical infrastructure entities
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