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It’s been almost a year since the Biden administration issued EO 14028: Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity to encourage Washington and the private sector to work more collaboratively, share more information and increase partnerships to confront the growing threat landscape. The EO mandated that federal agencies follow emerging private practices such as zero trust and more transparency alert reporting. So, how are we doing? In add...

The nation’s defense systems and capabilities are challenged as never before-- on the ground, in the air, on the seas, in cyberspace and real space. The military must rise to those challenges on all those fronts to ensure the nation is secure. Information technology remains warfighters’ and defenders’ powerful primary tool for their jobs. From cloud computing, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, to machine learning and...

Human-centered agility: Leading change in a post-pandemic world Working and living in a global pandemic during the last two years has created many workplace and human experience challenges not faced in modern times. Work life balance, mental health and resilience, remote work and the hybrid workplace have received a new focus. Agile transformation is not only important in software development, but also important to creating supportive change i...

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The U.S. military maintains bases in more than 70 countries and territories around the world, some of them in inhospitable or hard-to-reach areas. When a piece of equipment fails – whether a weapon, a radar dish, or something more prosaic like a mess hall stove – getting replacement parts can be difficult and time-consuming, and the delay can cause anything from mild inconvenience to serious problems meeting the mission. Larger bas...

The 2021 ICIT Fall Briefing Series will be hosted on-line as a series of three weekly virtual events focused on cyber convergence or integrating physical and cyber security strategies. CISA suggests that business leaders develop a “…holistic security strategy that aligns cybersecurity and physical security functions…”. By bringing together top public and private sector leaders, ICIT is advancing the conversation about...

The Defense Information Systems Agency is, in many ways, the point of the cyber spear for the Department of Defense. It’s responsible for conducting network operations across all of DOD’s warfighting domains to ensure warfighters’ effectiveness and lethality.Maintaining that sharp edge during the pandemic has required DISA to adjust and evolve its own operations while assisting Defense agencies to ensure their operations cont...

The Texas Cyber Summit is a IRS-501(c)3 Non-Profit Fusion: A fusion of Cybersecurity Professionals and World Renown Hackers This year's event is a multi-day, multi-track, multi-platform diverse and inclusive conference for every level of knowledge. Just about every company provides cybersecurity awareness to their employees – what better way to spend your training time, then with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances: learning from expe...

Briefing Summary: Security operations centers (SOC) are the backbone of the cybersecurity industry providing defense, mitigation, and incident response against risks and attacks. However, SOCs are often criticized as ineffective, and one of the most frequently asked questions about SOC performance is “how to measure SOC effectiveness?” While mean time to resolution (MTTR) is the standard measure of effectiveness, this high-level me...