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The U.S. spent $2.2 million on a cybersecurity system that wasn't implemented — and might have stopped a major hack -- GCN

By Peter Elkind, Jack Gillum, ProPublica
Feb 02, 2021
This article was first posted on ProPublica.
As America struggles to assess the damage from the devastating SolarWinds cyberattack discovered in December, ProPublica has learned of a promising defense that could shore up the vulnerability the hackers exploited: a system the federal government funded but has never required its vendors to use.
The massive breach, which U.S. intelligence agencies say was “likely Russian in origin,” penetrated the computer systems of critical federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, the Treasury Department, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Justice, as well as a number of Fortune 500 corporations. The hackers remained undetected, free to forage, for months. ....

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Infrastructure overhaul helped Berkeley meet pandemic challenges -- GCN

By Stephanie Kanowitz
Feb 02, 2021
Before the pandemic hit last year, there were no city employees in Berkeley, Calif., who teleworked. Almost overnight, about 700 needed to find ways to connect from home to city systems.
The key to enabling that was an infrastructure modernization project that had recently wrapped up, said Berkeley’s IT Director Savita Chaudhary. Berkeley replaced an eight-year-old system with Nutanix’s hyperconverged platform.
“We needed to have a strong infrastructure in place because our infrastructure was pretty old,” Chaudhary said. The new system is scalable and easy to stand up, so “our application deployment time was reduced significantly,” she said. ....

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In search of a smarter Einstein -- GCN

By Justin Katz
Feb 02, 2021
Einstein is the Department of Homeland Security’s intrusion detection system. It observes traffic flowing in and out of federal networks, allowing the government to target threats identified by a database of known malware. That makes it unlikely Einstein ever could have detected the malware implanted into SolarWinds Orion because it was delivered to agency networks through a trusted update.
However, overhauling Einstein to identify unknown or zero-day threats would be far too costly, cybersecurity analysts said. The most viable path forward, they argued, would be to install new capabilities, necessarily bolstered by private industry.
Kiersten Todt, formerly executive director of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, was blunt about Einstein s record. There are no real strong success stories of Einstein, she said. When you look at what happened with SolarWinds, they essentially outsmarted Einstein. ....

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Army seeks smarter exoskeletons for soldiers -- GCN

By GCN Staff
Jan 29, 2021
The Army is looking for a system that can export sensor data from soldiers’ exoskeletons to their smartphones and to dashboards leaders can use to get a better idea of warfighters’ health and locations.
Exoskeletons transfer much of the weight a soldier carries to the ground through battery-powered, titanium legs, allowing warfighters to carry extra gear with less effort, even when climbing stairs or steep terrain. Modern exoskeletons provide back and knee support, sense the user s motion and send sensor data on speed, direction and angle of movement to artificial-intelligence-powered on-board computers that control electro-mechanical actuators at the knees. According to Lockheed Martin, which designs exoskeletons for military use, they are designed for tasks that require repetitive or continuous kneeling or squatting, or lifting, dragging, carrying or climbing with heavy loads. ....

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IRS deploys bots to streamline procurement processes -- GCN

By Stephanie Kanowitz
Jan 29, 2021
When the National Defense Authorization Act required the IRS procurement office to insert telecommunications security language into all its contracts, staff used a bot to accomplish in three days what would have taken a year.
“As we looked at the number of contracts that had that criteria, it was 1,466 active contracts,” IRS Chief Procurement Officer Shanna Webbers said. “It would have taken us almost up to a year to modify all of those contracts.”
Called the DATA Act Bot, the tool focuses on improving transparency and accuracy of data in the Federal Procurement Data System and on improving compliance with its namesake, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014. The bot, which incorporates artificial intelligence, natural language processing, optical character recognition and robotic process automation, is one of three that the office uses to streamline operations. ....

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