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The White House has nominated Kathleen Miller, the administrative assistant to the Army secretary, to be the Defense Department’s deputy comptroller.

In some cases, the attackers disguised their phishing emails to look as though they came from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

At a Senate hearing on Defense Department cybersecurity, lawmakers wanted to know whether a program aimed at hardening the security of the defense industrial base would thwart supply chain attacks.

Because of the scalable design, object stores can hold almost endless amounts of data for long periods of time whether collecting performance and maintenance data from a jet fighter or planning logistics for materiel distribution.

New marching orders for agencies and technology vendors in the Biden administrations new cybersecurity policy need to be supported in the budget, industry reps say.

By GCN Staff May 18, 2021 While the U.S., U.K. and other developed countries have banned the use of Huawei equipment in their 5G networks, the Chinese company has plenty of customers for its cloud infrastructure and e-government services according to the “Reconnecting Asia Huawei Cloud & e-Government Data” report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The May 17 report identified 70 deals in 41 countries between Huawei and foreign governments or state-owned enterpri...

By Lauren C. Williams May 19, 2021 Calls for a certified baseline of cybersecurity seem to increase with every cyberattack. And the recent ransomware attack that shut down the East Coasts largest fuel pipeline, Colonial Pipeline, is no exception. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is one of several Defense Department efforts to improve both its own cyber defenses and those of its industry partners. CMMC has been touted as a potential standard that could expand beyond the De...

By Justin Katz May 17, 2021 Brandon Wales, the acting chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, conceded on Thursday the dozens of deadlines in the administrations new executive order will "stretch the system" as his agency and others work to enact President Joe Bidens wide-ranging plan to revamp the federal governments cybersecurity. "I think the community is right to say this is ambitious, this is big, but I think that just reflects whats needed to confront the cybersecur...

By Lauren C. Williams May 17, 2021 The governing body for the Defense Department’s unified cybersecurity standard has a new training lead. Melanie Kyle Gingrich will take over training daily operations for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body as the vice president of training and development starting May 10. Kyle Gingrich replaces Ben Tchoubineh who has been leading the board’s training efforts, particularly with standing up a CMMC ecosystem of organizations t...

The Biden administration’s long-anticipated cybersecurity executive order lays the groundwork for modernizing cyber defenses and protecting critical services from attack by improving incident response and information sharing between the public and private sectors.