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Joyce: Give the U.S. cyberwar policy a chance
Rob Joyce, former White House cyber coordinator, said the Trump administration's new cyber warfare policy is more "thoughtful" than some might think.
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Federal DMARC compliance spikes up
A significant number of agencies and domains may not meet an Oct. 16 deadline set by DHS, but cybersecurity firms are still praising the federal government's progress in combatting spoofing attacks.
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Security clearance backlog drops 9 percent
An interagency council credits a series of changes instituted to the security clearance process this year with the first drop unprocessed background investigations in years.
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Are there new rules for cyberwar?
Reports that the Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era directive guiding the use of offensive cyber operations has cybersecurity experts pondering what, if anything, has replaced it.
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ODNI warns of increasing economic cyber espionage
Nation-state groups combine cyber exploitation with supply chain operations, human recruitment and the acquisition of knowledge by foreign students in U.S. universities to steal or acquire trade secrets from U.S. technology sectors.
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DOD, GSA, NASA move to raise purchasing ceiling for cyber emergencies
According to a proposed rule, agencies could spend more money for work directly related to supporting a contingency operation.
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Reorg puts DOD in charge of clearances
Under the Trump administration's reorganization plan, the Pentagon would become the central hub for security clearance authority in the federal government.
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DOD stops selling Chinese mobile phones at military exchanges
The move is the latest salvo in the government's ongoing conflict with telecom companies Huawei and ZTE over concerns their devices could be used to facilitate Chinese government spying
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Congress grills NBIB over clearance backlog
Senators expressed deep frustration about the government's lack of progress reducing the backlog of 700,000 pending security clearance requests, with some threatening to overhaul the process completely.
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Rogers: CyberCom can't be 'the end-all, be-all of everything'
The outgoing NSA and U.S. Cyber Command chief told lawmakers CyberCom is not sitting on its hands when it comes to potential Russian cyber interference, but it lacks the authority to do more absent additional presidential direction.
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After exposing DISA data to Russia, contractor agrees to new security controls
Netcracker Technology Corp. signed an agreement to keep U.S. customer data in U.S. systems, settling a case that goes back to the Bush administration.
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GAO: Security clearance problems far from fixed
A GAO audit found that many federal agencies have yet to implement years-old recommendations to reform and speed up their security clearance processes.
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Pentagon spending more on emerging tech
The Department of Defense spent $7.4 billion in fiscal year 2017 on cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence technologies, according to a recent Govini report.
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