Jacob Livesay

A new report from the Office of the National Cyber Director provides private sector insights into the challenges of space system cybersecurity, as the Biden administration makes a late push in a sprawling cyber executive order to secure space systems used by federal civilian agencies.

The Office of Management and Budget outlines agency responsibilities for fiscal 2025 reporting under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, in a new memorandum explaining priorities that build on President Biden's 2021 cyber executive order, including network visibility and guidance for inventorying agency use of Internet of Things devices.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Defense Department are partnering on an effort to educate owners and operators of critical infrastructure and national security systems on the topic of “software understanding” to drive cybersecurity improvement across sectors.

The House Homeland Security Committee conducts its first cyber hearing in the 119 th Congress to hear from private sector stakeholders on nation-state cyber threats this week, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology hosts an event to discuss ongoing work to guide zero trust implementation.

The Biden administration is pushing federal agencies to prioritize their efforts to incorporate quantum-resistant encryption technologies on their networks in advance of a 2035 implementation deadline, as part of a cyber executive order signed in the final days of President Biden’s term.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI have published an updated version of a controversial guide outlining bad product development practices that stakeholders see as a potential launchpad for standing up a software liability regime.

Making investments to improve the security of cloud services could be a driving force in helping agencies modernize their networks, according to a think tank-based commission featuring former federal officials who recently released a report with their findings.

President Trump in his second term is likely to continue space system cybersecurity efforts in line with actions taken in the final days of the Biden administration through an executive order, according to the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center.

President Trump's executive order to address misinformation and disinformation focuses on the need for free speech and aims to curb agency efforts to work with social media companies that were a point of partisan contention throughout the Biden administration.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency provides an update in a new blog on an initiative to support a widely-used vulnerability database with supplementary information, which was launched in response to a slowdown of data enrichment efforts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.