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National security officials have been sounding the alarm over a China-linked hacking group that’s been targeting critical infrastructure.
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On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued an executive order (EO) to set new standards for the safety and security of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The move sets out the government’s intentions to regulate and further advance the growth of AI technology in the years ahead. Yet the question remains if it goes far enough to […]
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The Biden Administration recently introduced a new national cybersecurity strategy, expected to aggressively address an increasingly complex and dangerous threat landscape. Improving cybersecurity may not be the top priority for the Biden Administration, but it is an issue that the White House has been focused on since the earliest days of President Biden’s tenure. For […]
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The White House says the executive order “the first ever, whole-of-government approach” to cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.
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Cyberspace needs a “new social contract” where “isolated individuals, small businesses and local governments” no longer shoulder “absurd levels of risk,” says a top U.S. cyber official. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, writing in Foreign Affairs over the weekend with a senior adviser, said that the tech sector should make deeper investments in hardware and software security and the U.S. government should take a greater role in fostering digital defenses. “Those more capable of carrying the load — such as governments and large firms — must take on some of the burden, and collective, collaborative defense needs to replace atomized and divided efforts,” write Inglis and Harry Krejsa, the acting assistant national cyber director for strategy and research. “Until then, the problem will always look like someone else’s to solve.” Their overarching message about the need to improve private-public cooperation has been a refrain of cyber experts for decades. The […]
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A winning streak of hitting deadlines under President Joe Biden’s ambitious May cybersecurity executive order is widely expected to end Monday, affecting changes that administration officials have touted most: implementing multifactor authentication and encryption at all civilian federal agencies. Multifactor authentication — which requires users to access websites and systems by entering a password and also using a second device to verify their identity — could prevent 80% to 90% of all successful cyberattacks, Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technologies Anne Neuberger said in September. Encryption is another of the handful of technologies the administration has emphasized that “dramatically reduce the risk of attack,” Neuberger has said. The executive order’s goal was to set “aggressive but achievable” deadlines, officials have repeatedly said, and “We’ve met each timeline along the way,” Neuberger said in October. As important as multifactor authentication (MFA) and encryption are, however, current and former […]
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The Biden administration is working on an executive order that spells out the responsibilities of myriad top cybersecurity officials in the federal government, National Cyber Director Chris Inglis said Wednesday. Specifically, the idea would be to solidify the position of his office, only established by law in January, Inglis told the House Homeland Security Committee. “The statute has gone a long way, and the policies that we have described, have gone a a further distance in describing the what the roles and responsibilities are of the various layers in this space,” Inglis told the panel. “We are in discussion within the White House about when and how to effect an executive order that would bring additional clarity to these roles and responsibilities.” It would be the second major cybersecurity executive order of the administration, following on May’s sweeping directive for federal agencies and contractors to improve their digital defenses. The […]
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The White House is directing agencies to let the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency work with them on their efforts to protect endpoints, such as computer workstations and servers — an area where officials have said the federal government fell short in the SolarWinds hack. The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo on Friday that sets a 90-day deadline for CISA, the main cyber wing of the Department of Homeland Security, to access agencies’ current endpoint detection and response deployments. It then spells out timelines for other steps to improve their endpoint defenses. OMB says the goal is to establish “improved agency capabilities for early detection, response, and remediation of cybersecurity incidents on their networks, using advanced technologies and leading practices.” The memo is an outgrowth of President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order from May. And the focus on endpoints reflects one of the main takeaways from a […]
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On May 12th, the President of the USA, Joe Biden, signed an Executive Order (EO) that would bolster the cyber defences of the USA. The EO is intended to protect against “increasingly sophisticated malicious cyber campaigns that threaten the public sect… Continue reading Last (Executive) Orders Please: Supply Chains, Policy and Modernising Cybersecurity
Russia may have drawn the lion’s share of scorn for a recent string of cyberattacks against U.S. and global interests, but the Biden administration and a bevy of allies and partners blame China for the assault on Microsoft’s email system. Noting… Continue reading White House Accuses China of Microsoft Exchange Attack