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FCC Gets The Huawei Replacement Bill – 3x What They Expected

At the tail end of the Trump administration, Congress passed a bill to get telecom carriers to remove Huawei network equipment from their networks as a national security issue – which it may well be. Congress allocated a billion plus dollars to help small telecom providers with the costs of doing that. The FCC thought […]

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Lloyd’s Tries to Define Acts of Cyberwar

Or at least standardized policy language on the subject. Cyber insurance policies have always had language excluding “hostile and warlike actions”, whatever the hell that means. What it means is full employment for lawyers. And a long time before you get paid. The Lloyd’s Market Association, the syndicate that drives Lloyd’s backed policies, has created […]

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Minimum Viable Secure Product (MVSP)

Vendor risk must be a core part of every company’s cybersecurity program, but it is hard. Especially when the company is a tech company, developing software that you use. The term Minimum Viable Product or MVP is a term marketing folks have used for years to describe creating a version 1 product that has the […]

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CISA Issues Cyber Goals & Objectives for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems

While goals are CURRENTLY voluntary, CISA issued guidelines for what it expects from pipelines and other critical infrastructure in light of the Colonial Pipeline attack. While it appears that the hackers were not able to take over the control systems in that attack, they did take over the control systems in the Florida and Kansas […]

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Be Careful What Contracts You Sign

While the details of this are interesting, what is more important is thinking about all of the contracts that you sign. This is a legal battle that goes back several years. In one corner is Fiserv, the Fortune 200 +/- financial services software behemouth. In the other corner is Bessemer System Federal Credit Union, a […]

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