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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 19, 2021 the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) held a hearing on the nomination of Alejandro N. Mayorkas to be the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (the Department or DHS).    Public-Private Partnerships Will Continue to be of Crucial Importance for DHS and CISA. In his opening statement, Mayorkas underscored the critical importance of public-private partnerships to the DHS and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) missions stating that: DHS is “fundame...

By Justin Katz   Alejandro Mayorkas, the Biden administration's candidate to lead the Department of Homeland Securit, shown at an agency event in 2016. (Photo credit: Petty Officer 3rd Class Lora Ratliff / U.S. Coast Guard) Alejandro Mayorkas, at his Senate confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Homeland Security, said he will review the federal government's two major cybersecurity programs in the wake of the SolarWinds breach. Mayorkas said he would conduct "a thorough review of Einstein and Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation [programs] to understand whether Einstein and CDM … ...

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.

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...

States’ Cybersecurity Opportunities in a New Presidential Administration While the Trump White House has done some good things, the president-elect has shown genuine interest in the issue, and more federal resources are becoming available. Mark Weatherford, Cybersecurity Columnist   |   December 15, 2020   |  Opinion I was recently asked how state governments could more effectively leverage the federal government to improve their own cybersecurity. With a change in the executive branch at hand, it seems the perfect time for state chief ...