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IT teams have a long road ahead of them as they work to find and root out all vestiges of the Hafnium hack in their Microsoft Exchange systems.

The Government Accountability Office found that missing or vague cybersecurity requirements in acquisitions contracts for weapons systems often led to DOD getting a system that didn't meet its security needs.

By Justin Katz Mar 10, 2021 To design a software vulnerability program for the federal government, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is reviewing work done by the Defense and Homeland Security Departments. The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020, passed in December, tasks the NIST director with publishing guidelines for receiving, reporting, coordinating and publishing information related to security vulnerabilities -- not limited to IoT devices -- in agency systems as well as the resolving those issues.   DOD published its vulnerability disclosure polic...

By Justin Katz Mar 10, 2021 The Pentagon has ordered its agencies and commands to take actions "in line" with the emergency directive recently issued by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in response to vulnerabilities found in Microsoft's Exchange software. "Joint Force Headquarters - DODIN coordinated with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and then issued a Cyber Tasking Order in line with CISA's emergency directive to all DOD agencies and commands directing them to take actions necessary to protect DoD networks and IT systems," Russell Goemaere, a Pent...

Colin Kahl, the Biden administration's pick to be the undersecretary of defense for policy, talked cyber and defense while dodging critiques on past social media posts.