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Former Director of Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to headline free one-day event Boca Raton, FL, April 26, 2021 — MediaOps, the place to tell your story in the most powerful way, today announc… Continue reading Christopher Krebs to Keynote in Live Fireside Chat/Q&A Session at DevOps Connect: DevSecOps at RSA Conference 2021
When Christopher Krebs was director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), his job was to make sure he understood the risk management landscape so the agency could fulfill its role as th… Continue reading How Threat Modeling Enabled Election Security
Following President Trump’s removal of the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber division, the man whom the White House tapped for a senior position there in October is preparing to join the agency amid questions about his security clearance. Sean Plankey, currently a senior official at the Department of Energy, has in recent days contacted current and former officials at DHS to discuss working at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Plankey indicated in one conversation that his move to CISA was “imminent,” one source said. The Trump administration in October announced its intention to appoint Plankey as CISA’s assistant director for infrastructure security. The apparent momentum behind Plankey comes days after the president announced via Twitter that he had fired Chris Krebs, CISA’s director, for declaring the Nov. 3 election “the most secure in American history.” The status of Plankey’s security clearance, however, hangs […]
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President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs (no relation). The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election he baselessly claims was stolen by widespread voting fraud. Continue reading Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs
President Trump fired US cybersecurity chief over Twitter Tuesday, an act widely condemned within the cybersecurity community. Continue reading Firing of CISA Chief Christopher Krebs Widely Condemned
President Trump fired US cybersecurity chief over Twitter Tuesday, an act widely condemned within the cybersecurity community. Continue reading Firing of CISA Chief Christopher Krebs Widely Condemned
Chris Krebs, the first and current director of the CISA, said his protection of election process drew ire from Trump administration. Continue reading Report: CISA Chief Expects White House to Fire Him
The deadline looms for U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s emergency directive for federal agencies to patch against the so-called ‘Zerologon’ vulnerability. Continue reading DHS Issues Dire Patch Warning for ‘Zerologon’
The federal agency plans a slew of initiatives to address industrial control security this year. Continue reading RSAC 2020: Ransomware a ‘National Crisis,’ CISA Says, Ramps ICS Focus
The last few years have been an awakening for Election Systems & Software. Before 2016, very few people were publicly pressing the company to change the way it handled its cybersecurity practices. Now, the nation’s leading manufacturer of election technology has become a lightning rod for critics. Security experts say the small number of companies that dominate the nation’s election technology market, including ES&S, have failed to acknowledge and remedy vulnerabilities that lie in systems used to hold elections across the country. Once left to obscurity, the entire ecosystem has been called into question since the Russian government was found to have interfered with the 2016 presidential campaign. While there has never been any evidence to suggest that any voting machines were compromised, the Department of Homeland Security and FBI recently issued a memo that all 50 states were at least targeted by Russian intelligence. The peak of the criticism came after the Voting Village exhibition […]
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