Shalanda Young, director of the Office of Management Budget, and Kemba Walden, acting national cyber director, have sent a memo to department and agency heads outlining the Biden administration’s cybersecurity priorities for
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published the Extensible Visibility Reference Framework Guidebook to help public and private organizations strengthen the defenses of their cloud-based services. CISA on Tuesday also released
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The Internal Revenue Service has begun gathering information on potential sources of information technology security implementation contractor support for the IRS Cybersecurity organization. A notice Wednesday on SAM.gov states that the IRS
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A report by the Government Accountability Office found that federal agencies have different approaches to reporting cybercrime, due in part to their varying definitions of the criminal activity. In a report published
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The Department of Justice has established a cyber section within its National Security Division that will focus on prosecuting nation-state and state-sponsored cyberthreat actors. DOJ said Tuesday the National Security Cyber Section
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The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is soliciting public feedback on its first draft of the Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Genomic Data. The report aims to supplement existing cybersecurity standards to protect
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Reps. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif.; Don Bacon, R-Neb.; and Mike Gallagher, R-Wis. have proposed including a bipartisan measure in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act that aims to safeguard nuclear weapons systems from
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A new article published by Deltek shows that the Department of the Army spent $862 million on other transaction agreements for cybersecurity-related initiatives from fiscal year 2020 through FY 2022. The Army’s
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned that the Russian CL0P Ransomware Gang has attacked several U.S. federal agencies that use the managed transfer file application MOVEit, CNN reported Thursday. The global
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Researchers with the Safe Documents program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have developed new tools and methods designed to mitigate cyber vulnerabilities in file formats. The SafeDocs program was launched
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