The Department of Defense has selected eight counter-small unmanned aircraft system solutions for use by the joint force based on the Army's assessment. In November, the defense secretary tasked the Army to narrow down the number of C-sUAS used by the armed services to avoid redundancy in the fielding of solutions, C4ISRNET reported. “Our goal […]
The coronavirus pandemic has become one of the "biggest drivers" of information technology and cyber modernization in recent times, according to a homeland security leader. Christopher Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said the pandemic forced a multitude of sectors to switch to telework to curtail […]
The Air Force aims to leverage artificial intelligence for improved network defense to allow the service’s cyber workforce to prioritize higher-level tasks, including white-hat hacking. Lauren Knausenberger, chief innovation officer for the Air Force, believes that AI could be maximized to rid human workforces of tasks like performing bug fixes and assessing threat reports. To […]
The Department of Education has been implementing workforce training and promoting collaborations with other federal agencies and stakeholders to strengthen its cyber posture. Speaking at the recent Mission to Innovate webinar, Education Department Chief Information Officer Jason Gray said workforce education has enabled the department to mitigate the impacts of SMS attacks that bait targets […]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced five areas where it believes blockchain technology can be used. The potential use cases were identified by the DHS' Privacy Office, Customs and Border Protection and Citizenship and Immigration Services, FedScoop reported Monday. CBP proposed using blockchain's paperless properties for validating data from food importer documents, for tracking […]
Federal agencies should aspire to emulate the Department of Defense's model for facilitating telework during the coronavirus pandemic, according to information technology experts. Jeanette Manfra, Google Cloud's director of government security and compliance, said telework arrangements require employees to have access to a zero-trust cloud computing architecture, DOD reported. "Security compliance acts as blocker sometimes. You have […]
Sen. Ron Wyden has asked the Intelligence Community to explain the widespread cybersecurity problems it has been facing. In a letter to Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Wyden noted that Congress exempted the IC from the Department of Homeland Security's regulations on cybersecurity technology and policy adoption, MeriTalk reported. "Congress did so reasonably expecting […]
The Department of Defense should implement "checks and balances" throughout the development processes of weapons based on artificial intelligence, according to one of the department's AI leaders. Brig. Gen. Matt Easley, director of the Army Futures Command's AI task force, said the Army must rigorously test its unmanned systems to ensure that its soldiers can […]
Salesforce has announced that its cloud instance, called Government Cloud Plus, which runs on Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud platform, has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program provisional authority to operate at the High Security Impact Level. The operational clearance allows Salesforce customers to deploy the company’s Customer 360 customer relationship management platform and […]
GoSecure, together with software vendor SAP NS2 and Carahsoft, announced that its proprietary endpoint detection response platform has received the approval of the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Neal Creighton, chief executive officer of GoSecure, described the EDR platform as a purpose-built tool for detecting the most advanced attacks and addressing federal agencies’ specific use […]
