The Transportation Security Administration last week issued a draft statement of work as part of a potential competitive effort to manage a public-private entity to share information about threats to the nation’s public transportation system, particularly as cyber incidents continue to increase. ...
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The Pentagon on Friday issued direct solicitation requests allowing Amazon Web Services [AMZN], Google [GOOG], Microsoft [MSFT] and Oracle [ORCL] to submit proposals for the department’s new multi-billion dollar, multi-vendor Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) enterprise cloud computing ...
The House last Friday passed President Biden’s Build Back Better Act (H.R. 5376), a spending bill with close to $2 trillion in new funding to fight climate change, provide new education initiatives, reform immigration and more, including $500 million for the Department of Homeland Security’s ...
Russia’s failure so far to stop criminal actors inside its country from conducting ransomware attacks against targets in the U.S. despite a warning from President Biden over the summer to knock it off or face consequences is troubling some Democrats in the House. “It seems to me that Russia has ...
In several high-profile ransomware attacks this year against corporations there was no single point of contact in the federal government for companies to alert, demonstrating the need for the federal government to clarify who should be contacted in such an event, says a new report by the House ...
The U.S. Department of Treasury and Israel’s Ministry of Finance on Sunday established a bilateral partnership that will focus on protecting financial infrastructure and countering ransomware, part of the Biden administration’s push to strengthen international cooperation in combatting ...