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By Justin Katz   The top two senators on a committee overseeing the Department of Homeland Security are calling on the agency to provide documents that would highlight the capabilities and limitations of the federal government's flagship cybersecurity programs. Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) want the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to provide "documents sufficient to show" the technical capabilities and any planned improvements of Einstein and the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, according to an April 5 letter the lawmakers sent to CISA's ...

CISA Orders Agencies to Conduct Fresh Scans of Microsoft Exchange Servers dem10/iStock.com email March 31, 2021 04:32 PM ET The agency issued supplemental guidance requiring new tests with Microsoft-provided tools and measures to harden the attractive target. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency set deadlines for federal agencies to implement supplemental actions under an emergency directive it issued following the abuse of vulnerabilities identified in on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers. The updated directive CISA released Wednesday requ...

By Stephen Kovac   As agencies modernize networks in the work-from-anywhere world, they must eliminate traditional on-premise "castle and moat" security models. Modern security approaches are needed to protect hybrid and multi-cloud architectures -- and modern networks. We've traditionally labelled network traffic as east to west or north to south. This is no longer relevant as more and more government users connect from devices outside the network perimeter. The network traffic compass used for the last 20 years is now broken. To support this shift in managing and securing traffic in any di...

Addressing years-old cybersecurity failures could have helped the government catch the SolarWinds hack sooner, the GAO head says.

A look into strengthening and automating the country's cyber protections