100 Days Down, 1,360 Days of Nation-State Cybersecurity Threats to Go

This week marks the milestone of the Biden Administration’s first 100 days. It is somewhat arbitrary to expect an incoming president to achieve significant progress in just 100 days, or to judge success or failure based on such a small span of tim… Continue reading 100 Days Down, 1,360 Days of Nation-State Cybersecurity Threats to Go

FCC Boots Chinese Telecom Companies, Citing Security

The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau on March 12 identified five Chinese companies they said posed a threat to U.S. national security. These companies are: Huawei Technologies Co., ZTE Corp., Hytera … Continue reading FCC Boots Chinese Telecom Companies, Citing Security

GAO Finds Gaps in DoD Cyberdefenses, Highlights Importance of Breach and Attack Simulation Tools

AttackIQ’s Security Optimization Platform gives an agency a proactive—rather than a reactive—security posture. It enables continuous validation of security controls to definitively establish the effectiveness of key initiatives, to include zero-trust c… Continue reading GAO Finds Gaps in DoD Cyberdefenses, Highlights Importance of Breach and Attack Simulation Tools

Taking steps to break down systemic racism in cybersecurity

Racism, like cybersecurity, is a national security issue. Systemic racism prevents diverse perspectives from informing policy and security. As a result, it hampers our ability to understand and combat misinformation and to address our society’s vulnerabilities so as to prevent our adversaries from exploiting them. Systemic racism also blinds us from seeing and leveraging the diverse experiences before us, undermining our ability to understand how all communities use technology and to ensure different voices are welcomed, heard, and protected in our national security institutions. We all have a role to play in the security of our nation, and there are so many institutional, systemic, and overt racial biases that make this problem so complex. So how do we start to dismantle them? We must start by acknowledging that these problems exist in our industry and begin taking tangible steps to educate ourselves on the impact of slavery and systemic racism […]

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US Now Considers Huawei and ZTE Threats to National Security

Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE Corp have been designated national security threats by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), citing the companies’ close ties with the Chinese Communist Party and the military. The United States took a n… Continue reading US Now Considers Huawei and ZTE Threats to National Security

Teddy’s Citizenship In A Republic Speech, The 110th Anniversary

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Infosecurity.US celebrates the anniversary of one of the most enduring speeches a President of the United States ever entrusted to history. Namely, Theodore Roosevelt’s Citizens… Continue reading Teddy’s Citizenship In A Republic Speech, The 110th Anniversary

Gamaredon APT Improves Toolset to Target Ukraine Government, Military

The Gamaredon advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been supercharging its operations lately, improving its toolset and ramping up attacks on Ukrainian national security targets. Vitali Kremez, head of SentinelLabs, said in research released on We… Continue reading Gamaredon APT Improves Toolset to Target Ukraine Government, Military

A Life That Is Well Worth Honoring

via Katie Lang, writing for the DOD News, comes a short, but immensely powerful and important piece detailing the outstanding life of a U.S. Marine and Medal of Honor recepient – Captain Raymond Gerald Murphy.

“…we’re highlighting Marine Corps Ca… Continue reading A Life That Is Well Worth Honoring