Cyber
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CyberNGA Releases RFP For Cybersecurity Help
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) on Monday issued the final request for proposals (RFP) for its Defender program, which will procure cybersecurity capabilities and services from a single vendor […]
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TSA Seeks Contractor To Operate Public Transportation ISAC
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 […]
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CyberDoD Selects AWS, Google, Microsoft And Oracle To Bid On JWCC Multi-Vendor Cloud Program
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 […]
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Budget
House Passes Catch-All Bill That Includes $500 Million For CISA
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 […]
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CongressSome House Homeland Democrats Frustrated Russian Not Cracking Down On Ransomware Actors
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 […]
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CongressHouse Report Says Ransomware Victims Lack Clarity In Responding To Feds
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 […]
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CyberTreasury, Israeli Finance Ministry Partner To Combat Ransomware
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 […]
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CyberCISA Needs To Be Non-Partisan, Easterly Says
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is not political and must be a non-partisan agency because cybersecurity isn’t political, the head of the agency said on Wednesday. CISA Director […]
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CongressSenators Introduce Bipartisan Cyber Incident Reporting Measure To Defense Bill
A bipartisan contingent of senators last week introduced an amendment to the annual defense authorization bill requiring owners and operators of critical infrastructure as well as federal civilian agencies to […]
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CyberPentagon Rolls Out Updated ‘CMMC 2.0’ Aimed At Addressing Complexity, Cost Concerns
After a nine-month review process, the Pentagon on Thursday rolled out a rebooted version of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program that aims to “cut red tape” for compliance […]
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