Experts believe that full-scale quantum computers could be one of the most monumental technological breakthroughs of the century. Quantum promises major impacts in everything from financial services and complex manufacturing to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and beyond. But the technology is not without risk. Quantum computers “bring with ...
Andrew Storms of Copado and Sarvinder Sandhu of Radiant Infotech said government agencies looking to accelerate secure application development while maximizing the potential of the cloud, meeting digital transformation objectives and driving citizen engagement should adopt low-code DevSecOps platform. “A low-code DevSecOps platform offers a user-f...
Arati Prabhakar, former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a previous Wash100 awardee, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. If confirmed, Prabhakar will serve as Biden’s chief adviser for science and technology, a co-chair of the president�...
Jason Proctor, advisory systems engineer for cyber resilience at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies looking to achieve cyber resilience should develop a strategy that takes into consideration data isolation and immutability. “In fact, isolation and immutability are essential techniques that can help agencies protect critical ...
On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order on improving the nation’s cybersecurity. In the year since the executive order’s release, the federal government has implemented a host of cybersecurity initiatives, standards and policy measures to protect agencies and their industry partners against the increasing threat of cyber ...
The Office of Management and Budget is soliciting feedback through a set of questions to inform the implementation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s guidance detailing best practices to improve the security of the software supply chain in accordance with a cybersecurity executive order signed in May 2021. On Feb. 4, NIST rele...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a call for nominations to serve on the inaugural internet of things advisory board in accordance with the provisions of the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The IoTAB would provide advice to the IoT federal working group on...
President Joe Biden and representatives from the commercial and education sectors discussed commitments and initiatives to counter cybersecurity threats at a meeting held Wednesday at the White House. The Biden administration has expanded the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to include natural gas pipelines and announced a Nationa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 12, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and head of corporate compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), has commented on the 12th iteration of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard shows how agencies rate in the cyber category, ExecutiveBiz reported July 29. “We should be lase...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has selected 18 technology companies to help design and demonstrate various approaches to implementing zero trust architectures. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NCCoE said Thursday it will work with the companies to design and field architectures based on the concepts ...
