The flagship program of cybersecurity company Halcyon, which strives to enable users to intercept a ransomware attack at any point in its development, has entered the market for general availability. The Halcyon Anti-Ransomware
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Lloyd Austin, secretary of the Department of Defense and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, said President Biden has nominated U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Stacey Hawkins to serve as commander of Air
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Verizon has released its annual report analyzing cybersecurity crimes and patterns in system vulnerabilities across the world. The 2022 edition of the Data Breach Investigations Report found that ransomware intrusions grew by
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President Biden met with the leaders of Australia, India and Japan for a strategic security dialogue in Tokyo where they renewed their commitment to boosting the security, resilience and economic growth of
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The Government Accountability Office assessed the Department of Defense’s approximately 2,900 controlled unclassified information systems and found that as of January, DOD has reported the implementation of over 70 percent of four
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released an emergency directive asking federal civilian agencies to apply updates or remove certain VMware products from their networks to help mitigate potential vulnerabilities in
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The National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI and international partners have released a joint advisory on weak security controls and poor cyber hygiene practices and security configurations that
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According to a MeriTalk survey, 93 percent of 100 government and industry professionals have observed an improvement in the resilience of federal cyber operations due to the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous
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President Biden signed into law the now National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium Act that would enable the Department of Homeland Security to collaborate with nonprofit entities on the development, modernization and hosting of
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A RAND Corp. study found no unbridgeable gap between the Department of Defense and Silicon Valley and showed more similarities in attitudes across Silicon Valley employees, defense industrial base and alumni of
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