The Government Accountability Office said that the U.S. military services distributed a minimum of $160 million in special pay to retain cyber personnel from fiscal year 2017 to 2021. Such incentives are intended to maintain experts in top-level positions amid the draw of opportunities in other agencies and the private sector. In a December report, […]
Sen. Rob Portman has urged government agencies to speed up implementing a zero trust architecture, citing a lack of progress in deploying the capability. The lawmaker, set to retire on Jan. 3, led bipartisan efforts on legislation focused on emerging cybersecurity technologies. According to Portman, while the Senate has “a good bipartisan caucus of cyber-focused […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded four organizations $55 million in contracts under the Signature Management using Operational Knowledge and Environments program. Under the SMOKE program, the contractors will develop signature management technologies and automate threat-emulated infrastructure to realistically simulate threats and support efforts to detect complicated cyber threats in a more efficient […]
The appropriations bill that Congress approved on Friday includes provisions for memory safety, according to a security researcher who worked with the U.S. Senate. Jack Cable said in a Twitter post on Tuesday that Congress included a law in the fiscal year 2023 omnibus bill that requires the national cyber director to study memory safety […]
Kate Stewart, a computer scientist at the Linux Foundation involved with defining standards for software bills of materials, said that the industry is starting to make progress with the concept compared to a decade ago. She added that having access to “good quality SBOMs” and their corresponding vulnerability data could result in better usage outcomes. […]
Australia is set to launch a global task force to combat ransomware attacks and other forms of cyberattacks. According to a senior U.S. government official, Clare O’Neil, the Australian cybersecurity minister, is planning to announce the activation of the group in January. The idea of standing up the International Counter Ransomware Task Force, which includes […]
President Joe Biden has signed the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act into law. The newly enacted legislation is designed to encourage federal government agencies to adopt technologies that could withstand quantum computing-enabled decryption. Particularly, it would require the Office of Management and Budget to prioritize agencies’ acquisition of and migration to IT systems that use […]
Chris Inglis, President Joe Biden’s top cybersecurity adviser, is set to depart the government in the coming months, according to people familiar with the matter. He is the first person to hold the position of national cyber director. His office was established under the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. As head of the […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has introduced a technical rule to amend the regulation establishing the Protected Critical Infrastructure Information program, which is aimed at protecting voluntarily given information pertaining to the security of critical infrastructure maintained by the public and private sectors. The original regulation had gone unchanged since it was published in […]
Lawmakers have unveiled a $1.7 trillion 2023 omnibus spending bill that includes $50 million to address cybersecurity threats posed by Russia and other malicious actors. The bill would also provide $422 million to the Office of Personnel Management to support the agency’s cybersecurity and hiring initiatives. To augment the U.S. cybersecurity workforce, the spending package […]
