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The agency's Ransomware Readiness Assessment tool is a thin start, but here's where security professionals can build on it.

Wednesday, 30 June 2021, 1:57 pm Consumer enterprises responding to heightened risk environment by embracing the ACSC’s Essential Eight as the de facto Australian cyber security standard   Australian cybersecurity pioneer Airlock Digital today announced that consumer enterprises, including a major Asia Pacific health & wellness group, are adopting the Airlock allowlisting solution as a key part of the Essential Eight cyber mitigation strategies to protect against ransomware and other cyber ...

Press Release – Airlock Digital Consumer enterprises responding to heightened risk environment by embracing the ACSCs Essential Eight as the de facto Australian cyber security standard   Australian cybersecurity pioneer Airlock Digital today announced that consumer enterprises, … Consumer enterprises responding to heightened risk environment by embracing the ACSC’s Essential Eight as the de facto Australian cyber security standard   Australian cybersecurity pioneer Airlock Digital toda...

Key Points On Wednesday, May 12, 2021, President Biden issued EO 14,028, "Improving the Nations Cybersecurity." The EO sets out an ambitious schedule of reviews and rulemakings that portend significant changes in the software and cybersecurity industries, particularly for government contractors and cybersecurity and software solution providers. In the view of the administration, these changes should be regarded as the new normal of what will be considered "reasonable" cyber and supply chain sec...

ENISA Publishes Threat Landscape Reports for 2020 On October 20, 2020, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity ("ENISA") published a series of reports on the threat landscape in 2020. The reports focused on, among other things, malware, data breaches, ransomware attacks, information leakage, and phishing attacks. The reports identified and evaluated the top cybersecurity threats for the period of January 2019-April 2020. ENISA Publishes Guidelines for Securing the IoT Supply Chain On Nove...

Security Industry Association Announces Program for Part 1 of the Virtual 2021 SIA GovSummit Share Article SIA’s annual public policy and government security technology conference will take place as a three-part virtual event starting April 28. “SIA GovSummit delivers high-quality insights and information on how government uses security technology to meet evolving challenges and succeed across a wide spectrum of missions." – Jake Parker, Senior Director of Government Relations, SIA ...

How to Choose the Right Cybersecurity Framework Cybersecurity frameworks can help reduce your risk of supply chain attacks and increase your competitive advantage. The dramatic rise in ransomware attacks and the SolarWinds Orion hack have thrust cybersecurity back into the spotlight. With everyone a target, its time for organizations to implement cybersecurity frameworks like those provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which can help you set a bar for measuring ...

Ben Tchoubineh, the CMMC accreditation bodys chair for training and CMMC board member Nicole Dean, the chief information security officer for Accenture, have voluntarily resigned, FCW has learned.

March 4, 2021 A weekly look at issues facing Wyoming business owners and entrepreneurs from the Wyoming Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network, a collection of business assistance programs at the University of Wyoming. By Andi Lewis, program manager, Wyoming Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC) It is becoming increasingly important that federal contractors implement a robust cybersecurity program. Why? The No. 1 reason is to protect your company from unscrupulous people or o...

On February 10, 2021, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced new policy changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) meant to address an ongoing issue loan applicants face regarding validation error codes. These error codes serve as validation checks to combat fraud and prevent improper loans from being issued to ineligible businesses. However, many eligible businesses have received such error codes during the application and forgiveness process, delaying necessary economic relie...