The cyber safety review board is similar to the FAA’s National Transportation Safety Board, except that they are investigating Cybersecurity crashes (breaches) rather than airplane or container ship crashes. The board is new. It was created by Executive Order 14028 in 2021. They only convene when requested to by the Secretary of Homeland Security and, […]
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CISA is going into overdrive on this one and the more I read about it, the more I understand why. On the surface, this is a story of a vendor that many companies trusted who was breached. Kind of old news. Definitely a problem, but nothing unusual. The company that was breached was Sisense and […]
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Administration Announces Preliminary Agreement for New High Tech Chip Factories in Arizona As you may remember, during the pandemic the shortage of chips caused widespread product shortages for everything from phones to cars. Congress passed the CHIPS act to subsidize companies who manufactured chips in the U.S. at a higher cost rather than in less […]
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The Department of Defense has been trying for ten years now to shore up the security of defense contractors but still has not gotten new regulations passed. Here is one example of why they are needed. Desparately. The breach against defense contractor Acuity, Inc. happened last month. The data was being sold for only $3,000 […]
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DoD Opens Cyber Policy Office As reported earlier, the planned opening of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy officially happened on March 20th. Ashley Manning will manage it until the Senate confirms someone else. President Biden announced that his nominee will be Michael Sulmeyer. Whether the Senate confirms him or […]
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What if you could better your competitor’s returns by 372%? Would that make the pain of improving your cybersecurity practices worthwhile? A study by Bitsight and Diligent says that is possible. The study analyzed data from 4,000 companies worldwide and found two interesting statistics. Insurance companies are looking to find actuarial data that helps them […]
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