Laurie R. Doran has been appointed Acting Director of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (NJOHSP), effective June 6, 2021. Doran will take...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism, a senior official told Reuters. According to Reuters, internal...
The department’s inspector general also found vulnerabilities in the department’s technology due to poorly defined patch management roles and configuration settings. The Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced a Security Directive that will enable the Department to better identify, protect against, and respond to...
The directive now mandates incident reporting and reviews described in the administration’s voluntary guidelines for the sector. Working with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the...
A Homeland Security Department procurement official said securing and fielding advanced technologies is “not going to get any easier.” Federal agencies are getting better at buying...
Cybersecurity professionals stress the importance of proactive defense to combat the growing number of attacks. The scourge of ransomware will proceed with or without closer regulation...
The Homeland Security Committee cleared several bills to address cybersecurity following the attack on Colonial Pipeline. A bill to improve the cybersecurity of state, local, tribal...
The legislation includes a fund to help impacted organizations pay for remediation efforts. Bipartisan legislation that would provide additional resources for responding to cyberattacks that put...
The hack highlights jurisdictional issues on pipeline cybersecurity. The White House has formed an interagency task force in response to a cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline Company...
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