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National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said he has worked with Fick many times over the years and believes he would excel.
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The Pentagon’s top commander overseeing AI said the military must quickly adapt if it is to keep up with China in the race to achieve AI supremacy.
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Cyberspace Solarium Commission Co-Chair Rep. Mike Gallagher asserts that the Biden administration’s decision poses a national security threat.
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The White House has reached consensus between State and Defense on how to pare back NSPM-13’s precedent-setting delegation of authority to the DOD.
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Data brokers selling information about U.S military personnel could pose a national security risk.
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Cybersecurity and homeland security experts are split on the wisdom of scaling back broad authorities that DOD has to launch cyber operations.
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The Biden administration is considering revising the Trump-era policy which gave broad cyber authorities to the Department of Defense and Cyber Command.
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DHS would get the biggest slice of the federal cybersecurity budget request at $2.6 billion.
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The Biden administration is requesting additional funds from Congress to help Ukraine with its digital defenses, strengthen cybersecurity in Europe and enhance U.S. capabilities to respond to the fallout from the Russian invasion. The overall fiscal 2022 supplemental request, sent to Capitol Hill this week, seeks $10 billion in Ukraine-related needs and $22.5 billion in funding related to COVID-19. Among the bigger pots of cybersecurity-focused funding the administration is requesting is $1.25 billion for the Defense Department to assist Ukraine with support on “operational surges across multiple national defense components, including accelerated cyber capabilities, weapons systems upgrades, increased intelligence support, and classified programs.” A $1.75 billion request for the State Department to provide economic aid to Ukraine includes support for “continuity of government” and resilience work, including cybersecurity and efforts to counter disinformation. Other funds sought for Ukraine assistance include Department of Energy money to evaluate cybersecurity needs for connecting Ukraine’s […]
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For more than two years, “Russian state-sponsored cyber actors” have targeted the emails and other data of U.S. defense contractors that handle sensitive information about weapons development, computer systems, intelligence-gathering technology and more, the federal government warned Wednesday. The alert from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said cleared defense contractors (CDCs) are the primary victims of the breaches. Those companies are authorized by the Department of Defense to access, receive and store classified information as part of their contracting work. The alert does not say whether classified information was accessed. The attackers, however, have been able to “acquire sensitive, unclassified information, as well as CDC-proprietary and export-controlled technology,” the alert said, by focusing on “enterprise and cloud networks, prioritizing their efforts against the widely used Microsoft 365 (M365) environment.” “The acquired information provides significant insight into U.S. weapons platforms development and deployment timelines, vehicle specifications, and plans for communications […]
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