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By GCN Staff May 18, 2021 While the U.S., U.K. and other developed countries have banned the use of Huawei equipment in their 5G networks, the Chinese company has plenty of customers for its cloud infrastructure and e-government services according to the “Reconnecting Asia Huawei Cloud & e-Government Data” report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). The May 17 report identified 70 deals in 41 countries between Huawei and foreign governments or state-owned enterprises. The company is focusing on emerging markets and offering not just cloud infrastructure and serv...

By Lauren C. Williams May 19, 2021 Calls for a certified baseline of cybersecurity seem to increase with every cyberattack. And the recent ransomware attack that shut down the East Coast's largest fuel pipeline, Colonial Pipeline, is no exception. The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is one of several Defense Department efforts to improve both its own cyber defenses and those of its industry partners. CMMC has been touted as a potential standard that could expand beyond the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) to cover all government contractors. But the core CMMC program is still...

By Justin Katz May 17, 2021 Brandon Wales, the acting chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, conceded on Thursday the dozens of deadlines in the administration's new executive order will "stretch the system" as his agency and others work to enact President Joe Biden's wide-ranging plan to revamp the federal government's cybersecurity. "I think the community is right to say this is ambitious, this is big, but I think that just reflects what's needed to confront the cybersecurity threats and risks that we face right now," Wales told reporters during an event hosted by th...

By Lauren C. Williams May 17, 2021 The governing body for the Defense Department’s unified cybersecurity standard has a new training lead. Melanie Kyle Gingrich will take over training daily operations for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body as the vice president of training and development starting May 10. Kyle Gingrich replaces Ben Tchoubineh who has been leading the board’s training efforts, particularly with standing up a CMMC ecosystem of organizations that develop course materials and train assessors, since the board's inception in 2019. His last day ...

The Biden administration’s long-anticipated cybersecurity executive order lays the groundwork for modernizing cyber defenses and protecting critical services from attack by improving incident response and information sharing between the public and private sectors.