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This article originally appeared on Fortune. In my nearly 10 years in state law enforcement investigating computer crimes, I saw the point at which government power and emerging technology converged. I was trained to extract every bit of data from a computer and every ounce of meaning from computer evidence.
This article originally appeared on FCW. Over the past weeks, U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private sector organizations have been scrambling to address what is now being considered a “significant cyber event.” Though comprehensive damage assessments could take months, we know that the impact of the SolarWinds attack
This article originally appeared on SearchSecurity. The physical breach of the United States Capitol could lead to a cybersecurity breach, according to infosec experts, though it’s unclear how serious the risks are. A massive mob of supporters for President Trump stormed the Capitol building and occupied the house of Congress on Jan.
This article originally appeared on Roll Call. American businesses and government agencies could be spending upward of $100 billion over many months to contain and fix the damage from the Russian hack against the SolarWinds software used by so many Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government departments. “Unlike good wine,
This article originally appeared on FedScoop. The Department of Defense has been ahead of the curve in security practices on many fronts, a trend that is no different in the push for zero-trust architectures for government networks. For many in the DOD cybersecurity workforce, zero trust is a buzzphrase that bundles practices they have helped pioneer. Defense-in-depth,
This article originally appeared on Forbes.com. Encryption is one of the most transformative and vital technologies available today. I am obviously a big proponent of using encryption because it’s key to keeping our data and communications secure. Of course, not everyone feels this way. Some want to be able to
This article originally appeared on C4ISRNET. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense must determine the national security threat posed by quantum computing, as part of the new annual defense policy law. The fiscal 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, which became law New Year’s Day after the Senate overrode President
This article originally appeared in Bankless Times. It took a compelling proposition to lure Dr. Joel Alwen from academia and into business and Wickr was too interesting to pass up. Dr. Alwen is the chief cryptographer at Wickr, a company offering end-to-end encrypted collaboration platforms that can scale to meet the
This article originally appeared on Dark Reading. A combination of best practices and best-in-class technology will help keep your enterprise from falling victim to ever-growing threats. There are plenty of security solutions in place that protect sensitive data in motion, and at rest in enterprise storage and the cloud, from
Two weeks ago, it was discovered that the SolarWinds systems had been hacked for the past several months, likely by Russian operatives. Initially thought to just affect the Departments of Treasury and Commerce, there seem to be new victims every day. More than 425 of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies
Would 2020 really be complete without a last-minute crisis? SolarWinds Orion, which federal agencies use widely, got hacked. In response, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive for all federal civilian agencies to review networks and disconnect. The Pentagon issued a similar order to shut down
This article originally appeared on Federal Times. WASHINGTON – The military and intelligence community is scrambling to conduct a daunting hunt across disconnected networks to assess potential damage from an extensive federal cybersecurity breach by suspected Russian hackers. As it searches for lurkers, one complicating factor is that the cybersecurity