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Russia’s MiG-35 Fighter to Enter Pilot Batch Production Our Bureau 2747 MiG-35 fighter jet Russia’s MiG-35 jet the 4++ generation fighter from MiG, will soon be entering pilot batch production. The aircraft has received a preliminary certificate for the limited series production even as it is undergoing state joint trials, Director of the MiG-29M and MiG-35 Aircraft Programs Directorate at the MiG Aircraft Corporation, Musheg Baloyan was quoted as  saying by TASS on Thursday. "The MiG-35...

Governors Wind Energy Coalition Biden Rushes to Protect Power Grid as Hacking Threats Grow Source: By Shaun Courtney and Michael Riley, Bloomberg • Posted: Thursday, April 15, 2021 A White House plan to rapidly shore up the security of the U.S. power grid will begin with a 100-day sprint, but take years more to transform utilities’ ability to fight off hackers, according to details of a draft version of the plan confirmed by two people. The plan is the policy equivale...

White House Rushes to Strengthen Security of U.S. Power Grid as Hacking Threats Grow By Shaun Courtney and Michael Riley | April 15, 2021 A White House plan to rapidly shore up the security of the U.S. power grid will begin with a 100-day sprint, but take years more to transform utilities’ ability to fight off hackers, according to details of a draft version of the plan confirmed by two people. The plan is the policy equivalent of a high-wire act: it provid...

Biden Rushes to Protect Power Grid as Hacking Threats Grow Bloomberg 1 hr ago Shaun Courtney and Michael Riley (Bloomberg) -- A White House plan to rapidly shore up the security of the U.S. power grid will begin with a 100-day sprint, but take years more to transform utilities’ ability to fight off hackers, according to details of a draft version of the plan confirmed by two people. The plan is the policy equivalent of a high-wire act: it provides incentives for electric com...

Biden Rushes to Protect the Power Grid as Hacking Threats Grow By Shaun Courtney and Michael Riley | April 14, 2021 A White House plan to rapidly shore up the security of the U.S. power grid will begin with a 100-day sprint, but take years more to transform utilities’ ability to fight off hackers, according to details of a draft version of the plan confirmed by two people. The plan is the policy equivalent of a high-wire act: it provides incentives for elec...

Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, highlighted shifts to cloud-based services and multifactor identification as areas where federal funds could be used to improve state and local cybersecurity. (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images) On the heels of President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, Chris Krebs, former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, suggested Wednesday that it was “well past time” fo...

by Grant Gross Print this article More than two months after taking office, President Joe Biden has yet to nominate a national cybersecurity director, even as the federal government deals with the massive SolarWinds breach announced late last year. Several lawmakers and cybersecurity experts are pushing the Biden administration to name a cybersecurity director to be in charge of federal cybersecurity policy and strategy. The new job, created in the 2021 National Defense...

Deadline – MSNBC [ Editor’s Note: Chris Krebs is a solid guy, as you can see from his Wiki material below. He will somehow survive without working for Trump, as will everybody else. It seems Trump is planning to work at being the American president that keeps getting elections stolen from him, which if he runs in 2024 will be a worse defeat than in 2020. Krebs hit the nail on the head with his last line of the interview, used in the title. If Republicans have the good fortune of finding a h...

CISA Welcomes New Members to Leadership Team WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced today that three new administration appointees have joined the agency in leadership roles.  Nitin Natarajan has joined CISA as its Deputy Director, Eric Goldstein as Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, and Dr. David Mussington as Executive Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security.  Deputy Director Natarajan was most recently a Director at ...

CISA Names Three Leadership Appointments GavrBY/Shutterstock.com email February 22, 2021 CISA announced a new deputy director, executive assistant director for cybersecurity and executive assistant director for infrastructure security. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added to its leadership Monday, announcing three appointments—each of whom have previous experience in the federal government. Nitin Natarajan, formerly a director at Avantus ...