IT’S TIME TO CYBER EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE
3.27.23 > Shawn Riley Can you name a job that does not use computer technology today? There are a few, but very, very few. The near ubiquitous usage of…
Bruce Schneier: Government Needs to be Part of the Cybersecurity Solution
“Everything today is a computer,” declared Cyber Security Summit 2018 keynoter Bruce Schneier, CTO, IBM Resilient. IoT is the “computerization” of the whole world, making exponentially complex the safeguarding of…
Cyber Security Summit Notes: Four Current Top-Line Policy Trends
Public policy trends drive what will happen with future cybersecurity regulation. Matthew Rhoades, Managing Director of the Cybersecurity and Technology Program at the Aspen Institute, reviewed four current top-line trends…
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018: It’s time for Businesses to Get Serious
California has just imposed a significant new set privacy and data security requirements that will impact a significant percentage of consumer-facing businesses in the US. Companies will have to implement…
Risks Factors Growing, Cyber Defense Only Partly Defined
Truman Center Policy Program Manager Dan Paltiel, a keynote speaker at Cyber Security Summit 2016, spoke on the current state of cyber defense in Cyber After 2016: Protecting Your Network…
Lt. Gen. Ron Burgess: Weakest link in security chain generally the individual
Lt. Gen. (ret) Ronald Lee Burgess, Jr., who served as the 17th Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was one of the keynote speakers at Cyber Security Summit 2016 in…
DHS Under Secretary: Vibrancy Makes Us Attractive Target for Hackers
“Minnesota is adding tech jobs at the greatest rate of anywhere in the country,” declared Suzanne Spaulding, Under Secretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD) at the…
Vast majority of federal IT professionals feel their agencies are at risk
Ninety percent of IT professionals in the federal government feel their organizations are vulnerable to a cyber security attack, according to a recent report by Vormetric. The numbers are disconcertingly high…
Vulnerable public, private sectors need heightened cyber information sharing
“There are only two types of companies: Those that know they’ve been hacked and those that don’t.” That quote came from the same man who updated the President in daily terrorism…
Security group expands awareness campaign following White House announcement
The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) says it plans to expand educational programming conveying the importance of multi-tiered verification in cyber security, including expansion of the STOP. THINK. CONNECT. campaign.…
Minnesota granted exclusive cyber protection team
The Minnesota National Guard has been selected to receive a new cyber protection unit by the end of 2019, according to a recent announcement by the United States National Guard.…
Specialist from NIST shares small business cyber security fundamentals
A computer security specialist from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently addressed a gathering of small and mid-sized business people at the 2015 Cyber Security Summit in Minneapolis. The speaker,…
Experts tout info-sharing as best cyber defense
Cyberattacks have rocked American industry, U.S. government agencies, academic institutions and others causing disruptions of service, sensitive information leaks and theft of trade secrets and military defense documents. News reports…
Report finds data breaches at five HHS divisions in last three years
Add the Health and Human Services department to the growing list of cyber-attack victims. At least five Health and Human Services (HHS) divisions were attacked in a three year span…
Air Force Association launches new program to teach youths Internet safety
The Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot Program Office is launching a new course designed to keep kindergarten through sixth grade students safe on the Internet. The program, called the Elementary School…