Some parents in favor of no masks on school playgrounds May 6, 2021 at 4:01 PM EDT - Updated May 6 at 4:01 PM
The Palm Beach County School Board has agreed to reopen school playgrounds and allow kids to take their masks off while playing outdoors.
But students still need to mask up inside classrooms, which has many parents planning to protest.
Meredith Charley and her 5-year-old daughter Amelia spent Thursday counting and learning. Amelia has been at home since the pandemic began. She is highly sensitive particularly in her mouth area. So wearing a mask, to say it s challenging, is an understatement, Charley said.
By Justin Katz
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Wednesday his agency will begin its 60-day workforce sprint with an aggressive hiring campaign to expand the agency s cadre of cybersecurity professionals.
During remarks at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event, Mayorkas called the effort the most significant hiring initiative that DHS has undertaken in its history. He also said Wednesday was the first day of the department s workforce sprint.
The secretary in March announced a series of concentrated 60-day efforts focusing on a variety of topics. The first was on ransomware, which was prioritized because of the gravity of the threat and because the threat is not tomorrow s threat, but it is upon us, he said.
By Justin Katz
May 05, 2021
The Department of Homeland Security and the White House are putting the spotlight on combatting ransomware, actively developing plans to confront the issue.
DHS has assembled a task force with representatives from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Secret Service, Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement s Homeland Security Investigations unit, according to Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The new task force is part of the secretary s planned 60-day sprint on ransomware that was announced in March as the first in a series of new efforts. Beyond CISA…the entire federal government is stepping up to face this challenge, Mayorkas said at an April 29 event hosted by the Institute for Security and Technology. The White House is developing a plan dedicated to tackling this problem, and the Justice Department recently established its own task force focused on ransomware, he confirmed.
By Justin Katz
May 03, 2021
The Department of Homeland Security and the White House are putting the spotlight on combatting ransomware, actively developing plans to confront the issue.
DHS has assembled a task force with representatives from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Secret Service, Coast Guard and Immigration and Customs Enforcement s Homeland Security Investigations unit, according to Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The new task force is part of the secretary s planned 60-day sprint on ransomware that was announced in March as the first in a series of new efforts. Beyond CISA…the entire federal government is stepping up to face this challenge, Mayorkas said at an April 29 event hosted by the Institute for Security and Technology. The White House is developing a plan dedicated to tackling this problem, and the Justice Department recently established its own task force focused on ransomware, he confirmed.
By Justin Katz
Apr 30, 2021
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is testing how well aggregated cloud logs can feed its cybersecurity analysis efforts and improve cloud network visibility.
CISA’s Cloud Log Aggregation Warehouse collects, aggregates and analyzes national cybersecurity protection system data from agencies that use commercial cloud services. It combines that information with data from Einstein sensors in a cloud-based architecture for improved situational awareness.
CISA wants to see if it can “make sense of [the logs] as a community together,” CISA CTO Brian Gattoni said at an April 28 event hosted by FCW. We ve run pilots through the [Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation] program team, through our capacity building team, to look at end point visibility capabilities … to see if that closes the visibility gap for us.