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While distributed denial of service attacks can take agencies offline, relevant policies, trained staff and orchestrated technical and personnel resources offer the best defense.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned of attacks that leverage phishing and email forwarding vulnerabilities as well as one that bypassed multifactor authentication.

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By Chris Kadoch Jan 14, 2021 When it comes to smart cities, many leaders struggle with where to start. The options can be overwhelming, with political, financial and technical challenges too often curbing progress. But, as the World Economic Forum pointed out, a bundle of small projects that ladder up to a larger aggregate system can be an accessible approach to modernizing smart city infrastructure. One technology already likely installed that can pave the way for cities transitioning core ser...

By GCN Staff Jan 14, 2021 On Jan. 12, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy launched the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office.  This new OSTP office is charged with overseeing and implementing a national AI strategy and serving as the central hub for federal AI research and policymaking across government, the private sector, academia, nonprofits and state governments. The office is also responsible for conducting regular public outreach, such as conferences ...

The company has not seen enough evidence to positively trace the hackers behind the ongoing SolarWinds Orion hack to Russian entities, a FireEye executive said.

An independent non-profit, StateRAMP will offer cloud security verification services to state and local government agencies.

By GCN Staff Jan 13, 2021 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants a geolocation dataset of U.S. businesses operating in sectors considered essential to U.S. homeland security. According to a Jan. 7 request for information, NGA said it’s looking for sources of commercial geospatial databases that could be integrated into the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) to inform senior leaders protecting the nation’s infrastructure. The data would support “operational, s...

The number of federal agencies hit by the SolarWinds Orion breach will likely surpass last week’s White House’s tally of 10 affected agencies, according to William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center.