Microsoft’s Recall puts the Biden administration’s cyber credibility on the line

Why has the White House remained silent on the launch of a product that violates the spirit and letter of its flagship cybersecurity initiatives?

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Departing top CISA official reflects on nearly four years in the cyber hot seat

Eric Goldstein spoke with CyberScoop about where the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has made progress, lessons learned and what’s next.

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Top CISA official Eric Goldstein to depart agency next month

Goldstein has served as the executive assistant director for cybersecurity and worked on a number of key priorities for the agency.

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Dozens of tech companies pledge to build safer, more secure tech

The commitments are voluntary, but CISA officials said they are committed to measuring progress by the signatories across key commitments over the next year.

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CISA seeking comments on its ‘secure by design’ guidance

The agency’s request for information on its software security white paper “acknowledges that security by design is not easy,” and that additional comments from manufacturers and other interested parties are needed.

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CISA’s Goldstein wants to ditch ‘patch faster, fix faster’ model

Executive assistant director for cybersecurity says the current model “does not account for the capability and the acceleration of the adversaries who we’re up against.”

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Cyber experts applaud the new White House cybersecurity plan

First, there was a strategy. Now, there’s a plan. The Biden Administration recently released its plan for implementing the highly anticipated national cybersecurity strategy published in March. The new National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan (NCSIP) lays out specific deadlines and responsibilities for the White House’s vision for cybersecurity. The plan is being managed by the […]

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Secure-by-Design: Which Comes First, Code or Security?

For years, developers and IT security teams have been at loggerheads. While developers feel security slows progress, security teams assert that developers sacrifice security priorities in their quest to accelerate production. This disconnect results in flawed software that is vulnerable to attack. While advocates for speed and security clash, consumers must often pay the price […]

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Secure-by-Design: A 2023 Cybersecurity Prime

The traditional approach to security has been to get the product to market fast and worry about security later. Unfortunately, that approach has never really worked. It puts too much of the cybersecurity responsibilities on the customer and leaves many vulnerabilities primed for exploitation at any point in the supply chain.  As cyber threats become […]

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