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Sounil Yu at the MITRE ATT&CK Conference, holding up a life-size poster of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Yu has contributed to cybersecurity models in his own right, having developed the Cyber Defense Matrix that was described by one tech leader as the “must-have playbook in modern information security programs.” Keeping tabs on the vast constellation of vendors in the cybersecurity space, what they do and how they fit into your overall defense strategy can sometimes feel like trying to count the stars in the sky. Understanding this landscape has never been more critical for businesses toda...

Concern mounts over government cyber agency’s struggle to respond to hack fallout With Microsoft acknowledging for the first time this past week that suspected Russian hackers behind a massive government security breach also gained access to its source code, pressure is mounting on US officials and cybersecurity experts to explain how the attackers infiltrated various US computer networks, what they did once inside and the steps that are being taken to mitigate the damage. As US officials struggle with the fallout, questions are swirling about whether the agency tasked with protecting the n...

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How do you ‘safeguard’ US elections post-POTUS? How do you ‘remove’ foreign interference and corruption and install US-owned voter ID law(s) and other safeguards? It had to be this way. Sometimes you must walk through the darkness before you see the light. Q A couple of days later, Trump fired Krebs, himself by tweet, after Acting DHS Director, Chad Wolf refused Trump’s orders to do so. Yesterday, Matt Masterson a cybersecurity adviser who was central to CISA’s work on “securing” the 2020 Election, posted his own farewell thread on Twitter, thanking partners and praising CISA...

How U.S. agencies' trust in untested software opened the door to hackers POLITICO 12/19/2020 © Michael Bocchieri/Getty Images Network cables plugged into a server. The massive monthslong hack of agencies across the U.S. government succeeded, in part, because no one was looking in the right place. The federal government conducts only cursory security inspections of the software it buys from private companies for a wide range of activities, from managing databases to operating internal chat applications. That created the blind spot that suspected Russian hackers exploited to breach the Tre...