Quick Hits Of the nearly 30,000 security incidents analyzed in the 2021 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, the public sector was the second-most victimized industry (following entertainment) with 3,236 reported incidents and 885 total breaches. GCN has more on this story.
Mark Forman, formerly of
Unisys and Science Applications International Corp., takes on a new role as executive vice president as government consultancy Dynamic Integrated Services, Washington Technology reports. According to his biography on the George W. Bush presidency website, Forman was the first person in the federal government to fulfill responsibilities normally associated with a corporate Chief Information Officer.
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Under LB387, introduced by Gordon Sen. Tom Brewer at the request of Gov. Pete Ricketts, individuals may exclude 100 percent of their military retirement benefit income to the extent it is included in federal adjusted gross income, beginning in tax year 2022.
The bill allows a military retiree to provide a form 1099 from either the U.S. Department of Defense or the Office of Personnel Management to claim the exemption.
Senators voted 47-0 to pass LB387.
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The Establishment of a Cyber Safety Review Board
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In 2013, the Obama Administration began asking what government could do to improve cybersecurity. By February 2014, Farnam Jahanian, Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation, convened a three-day “idea lab” to come up with suggestions. You can see the resulting report, titled
Interdisciplinary Pathways Towards a More Secure Internet,here.
One of the ideas we worked on was a “Cyber NTSB.” This concept has so much appeal because of the frustration security people feel over the lack of transparency and conflicting messaging around major cyber incidents. The breach of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) in April 2014 may have been the trigger, but the SONY Entertainment hack later in 2014 created a lot of spurious speculation. Was it disgruntled insiders? Was it North Korea responding to a Seth Rogen movie?