Army Secretary Mark Esper made it clear to the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) July 16 that he would prioritize artificial intelligence technology development should he be confirmed as the next secretary of defense. “Different people put differe…
The House on Tuesday night adopted an amendment that would establish a pilot program aimed at discovering potential cyber security vulnerabilities to the nation’s electric grids and test technologies to protect systems from cyber-attacks. The amendment…
The House on Monday afternoon passed two cyber security bills, one aimed at helping small business and the other aimed at assessing the security posture of the Small Business Administration. Separately, on Monday, Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas), introduced…
Raytheon [RTN] on Monday said it has received a contract worth nearly $110 million to provide a cyber security operations center for a country in the Middle East North Africa Region. The customer wasn’t disclosed. Raytheon said its support and services…
Few today would argue that the threat surface in cyberspace has expanded significantly in the past decade. Just ask your fridge. From the new risks we’ve brought into our own kitchens, to the increased capabilities of nation states to disrupt everything from electricity to elections, there is an even greater (panic) questioning of what to …
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A federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of the Pentagon in Oracle’s [ORCL] legal challenge to the potential $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud computing program, clearing the way for a late August contract award to either…
At the peak of the typical policy pyramid sits a ‘corporate information security policy’. In clause 5.2, ISO/IEC 27001 explicitly requires a high level policy, specifying related aspects such as demonstrable management commitment.Our corporat…
According to the BBC, British Airways has been fined £183m for last year’s breach of the General Data Protection Regulation, dwarfing the previous record fines of £½m under the previous Data Protection Act. Ouch. Privacy compliance is now A …
The House will consider a series of cyber-related amendments this week to its version of the next defense policy bill, which includes directives for the Pentagon to detail long-term plans for artificial intelligence (AI) and increasing security coopera…