The Department of Energy on Tuesday launched a 100-day sprint to strengthen the cybersecurity of electric utilities’ industrial control systems (ICS) to protect operations from increasing cyber threats, part of the Biden administration’s initiative to bolster cyber protections for critical ...

The Biden administration on Thursday publicly attributed a cyber espionage campaign to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) that was first disclosed last December by a U.S. cybersecurity firm and the administration also announced sanctions against six companies in Russia’s technology ...

Following recently disclosed cyber breaches of a number of federal government and private sector networks, the Defense Department is accelerating its adoption of a zero trust (ZT) framework across the department’s information network, the DODIN, defense officials told a Senate panel on Wednesday. ...

President Joe Biden on Monday said he would nominate Chris Inglis to be the first National Cyber Director, a new position requiring Senate confirmation that will advise the president on cybersecurity issues and lead coordination across the country, including government and private sector, on cyber ...

The Biden administration last Friday released a top line budget request for the Department of Homeland Security that would be essentially flat with current year spending levels but increase funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to help it contend with a worsening ...

The series of 60-day sprints for six key areas of cyber security that were outlined last week by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas put the weight of his office and urgency behind the efforts and help cut through any inertia in making progress in these areas, a senior advisor to ...