DoD Concerned Covid Will Cause US IP Loss In an interesting analysis, Ellen Lord, DoD’s top acquisition official, is concerned that foreign interests (including unfriendly foreign interests) will buy or invest in small U.S. defense subs and steal our tech. In theory CFIUS and FRRMA should make that harder as the government has the right […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Visser Precision, a precision parts contract manufacturer based in Denver, Colorado, has confirmed a “cybersecurity incident”. Visser makes parts for the likes of Tesla, Space X, Boeing and defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The ransomware was DoppelPaymer, is one of the Ransomware 2.0 variants that steal the data before they encrypt it. Some of that data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD continues to take actions that lead us to believe that they are very serious about the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification process. This process will require that all DoD contractors ultimately get a third party cybersecurity certification on an annual basis if they want to continue to be part of the DoD food chain. When […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]These are the words right out of the mouth of Katie Arrington, The Pentagon’s Chief Information Security Officer for the acquistion policy office. Katie reports up to Kevin Fahey, the Assistant Defense Secretary for Acquisition. He is the guy who is responsible making sure that the Pentagon spends those hundreds of billions of dollars a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Department of Defense is probably the largest software development (and hardware development) organization in world but unlike say Microsoft or Cisco, almost all of the development is performed by third parties – the so called defense industrial base or DIB. It is also likely the number one target of nation state hackers since a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After a horrifying independent review of the Navy’s current cybersecurity posture, the Navy asked Congress to approve a new position of Assistant Secretary of the Navy to handle cyber. This comes after the Navy eliminated the role of CIO last year. Congress turned them down, so now they are going around Congress to create a […]
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