A bipartisan group of House members on Wednesday introduced a bill that would authorize a new $500 million grant program within the Department of Homeland Security that incentivizes state and local governments to secure their networks. The State and Local Cybersecurity Improvement Act (H.R. 3138) ...

A spate of recent troubling network breaches show that the nation’s overall approach to cybersecurity is lacking and the nation needs to immediately put more emphasis on preventing cyber-attacks than be in incident response mode, a senior administration official said Wednesday evening just ...

New funding recently provided by Congress for cybersecurity efforts as part of a larger COVID-relief package is accelerating work underway and also being put toward requirements development to bring cyber threat detection and response capabilities to endpoints, an official with the Department of ...

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved a slew of bipartisan bills aimed at bolstering the nation’s cybersecurity posture, prohibiting federal purchases of drones from certain countries, and safeguarding U.S. innovation and privacy protections related ...

One of the top priorities this year of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is standing up a new interagency cell that furthers collaboration across the government and with the private sector f0r incident response planning and defensive cyber operations, the acting head of ...

With ransomware attacks continuing to target the nation’s critical infrastructure, the Biden administration is planning to conduct more targeted efforts working with the private sector to help them protect their operational control systems from theses kinds of potentially crippling malware, a ...