As hacks, ransomware attacks and data breaches continue to make their way into the spotlight, it can be easy to forget about another more subtle, yet perhaps more sinister, aspect of cyberwarfare: disinformation and influence campaigns. As we’ve seen in…

ID.me, an identity verification platform provider, has achieved a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program moderate authorization to operate for its Identity Gateway, a shared service for citizen- and employee-facing authentication. The service achieved a FedRAMP-ready status in October 2017…

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed a bill designed to encourage businesses in the state to beef up their cybersecurity. “An Act Incentivizing the Adoption of Cybersecurity Standards for Businesses” will protect businesses from punitive damages resulting from a breach of personal…

A new directive issued by the Transportation Security Administration requires fuel pipeline operators to institute mitigation and recovery measures to protect against ransomware attacks and other known cybersecurity threats. This is the second directive issued by TSA in the wake…

Water utilities in some small and rural communities may be vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks because they are understaffed and haven’t been trained on compliance with federal regulations, state and local infrastructure advocates told a Senate panel. “People don’t see what’s…

Federal civilian companies can now use a bug reporting system to assemble data on potential web site and software program vulnerabilities. Fielded as a shared service by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company, the brand new vulnerability disclosure platform is…

From agriculture to protection, federal businesses are more and more utilizing synthetic intelligence and machine studying to reinforce mission-critical capabilities, speed up analysis breakthroughs and liberate employees assets. The byproduct of this adoption is a quickly rising retailer of unstructured…

To assist distant staff stay safe, the Nationwide Safety Company issued steerage on securing wi-fi gadgets in public. The July 30 steerage is directed at teleworkers within the nationwide safety system, the Division of Protection and the protection industrial base…

Due to the pandemic, cities have needed to rethink operations. From transportation to infrastructure, digital providers had been carried out to lower human contact to maintain residents secure and socially distant. Within the transportation business, for instance, forward-thinking companies began…

On the subject of threats on essential infrastructure, essentially the most disruptive may be any interruption of GPS or place, navigation and timing (PNT) companies as a result of all 16 sectors – to not point out area and navy…