The Office of the National Cyber Director has announced the appointment of cybersecurity leaders Kemba Walden, Neal Higgins and Rob Knake to help Chris DeRusha, federal chief information security officer and deputy national cyber director for federal cybersecurity, meet ONCDâs mission to protect U.S. citizens in cyberspace and enable them to benef...
Matt Hayden, a more than two-decade cybersecurity professional, has joined General Dynamicsâ (NYSE: GD) information technology business as vice president of cyber client engagement. He will help advance General Dynamics Information Technologyâs cyber growth strategies and thought leadership and forge relationships with government leaders and ind...
On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order on improving the nationâs cybersecurity. In the year since the executive orderâs 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 ...
GovCon Wire Eventsâ timely Information Security and Innovation Forum on Wednesday brought together prominent figures across government and industry to discuss how public and private sector organizations are working together to better fortify the United Statesâ critical information security and cybersecurity capabilities in response to the heigh...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is offering agencies and companies access to an online catalog of tools and services meant to help organizations manage cybersecurity risks. CISA said Friday the webpage will initially feature resources from the agency, open source contributors and Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative members from bo...
Last week, Senators introduced a new legislative package that combines aspects of the Cyber Incident Reporting act, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2021 and the Federal Secure Cloud Improvement and Jobs Act into a more comprehensive, robust and up-to-date bill that is expected to be more likely to pass into law than each...
David Epperson, formerly chief information security officer at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has joined the public sector team of artificial intelligence cloud technology provider H2O.ai, GovCon Wire has learned. “We are very excited to have Dave join our growing Public Sector team, his hiring illustrates our commitment...
In the wake of the recent identification of a critical vulnerability in the Java-based Log4j software code and due to the alarming rise in cybercrime, ransomware attacks and information breaches, the U.S. government is ramping up its cybersecurity response and resilience efforts. The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday established the count...
Boyden Rohner, associate director of vulnerability management at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, will lend her insights to a panel discussion about the current information security environment at GovCon Wire’s Feb. 23 virtual event. Rohner has two decades of national security experience and leads CISA’s initiatives ...
Robert Costello, chief information officer of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, will keynote a Feb. 23 virtual forum hosted by Executive Mosaic’s flagship Government Contracting Wire to overview his work at CISA and the agency’s role in federal data security. Costello assumed the CIO post in August 2021 and oversees C...
