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Efforts to protect the nation’s election systems have grown exponentially since the 2016 presidential election, but more is needed to defend the integrity

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Efforts to protect the nation’s election systems have grown exponentially since the 2016 presidential election, but more is needed to defend the integrity and resiliency of the election process ahead of next year’s vote, the head of the nation’s cybersecurity agency said Tuesday. Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, known as CISA, announced plans to boost resources within the agency, hiring 10 additional election security spec...

CISA’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program uses close collaboration with federal agencies to identify and respond to cyber threats, including ...

From the blog of Richard Kronenfeld at The Times of Israel

Looking for the latest Government Contracting News? Check out our story: Microsoft, CISA to Launch Expanded Cloud Logging Capabilities; Jen Easterly Quoted.

Many Microsoft customers will soon have access to expanded cloud logging capabilities at no additional charge, the company said Wednesday, after cybersecurity experts called on it to offer free logging data to organizations using any of its cloud services. This comes after Microsoft admitted last week that a likely China-based threat actor recently forged authentication

The tech firm is expanding its suite of free security tools in wake of Chinese attack on US government exposed vulnerability.

Standard license holders will get access to more than 30 types of logging previously available to higher paying customers, and all logs will be stored for twice as long, 180 days, by default.