Jacob Livesay

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Gary Peters (D-MI) slammed a decision from Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Christopher Wray to not testify publicly in front of the panel at a worldwide threats hearing that was scheduled for today and is now postponed.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says he will make scrutiny over the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s efforts to work with social media companies a cornerstone of his approach to oversight of the agency in the 119th Congress, where he is expected to chair the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) highlighted the need for the federal government to emphasize harmonizing cyber regulations in the context of compliance costs for industry and money that should be spent on building defenses, in remarks to Inside Cybersecurity after a hearing on the Transportation Security Administration’s proposed cyber rules.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s guidance on bad practices for software development could serve as a jumping-off-point for establishing a software liability standard, according to the Stanford Cyber Policy Center’s Jim Dempsey.

Cyber leaders from the gas and rail sectors will advocate for limiting the Transportation Security Administration's ability to use emergency regulatory authorities as a mechanism to establish industry requirements, in front of lawmakers today at a House hearing.

The Transportation Security Administration's cybersecurity rulemaking was in the spotlight at a Tuesday hearing where lawmakers considered the merits of moving forward with the agency's approach to establish new regulations for cyber risk management in the pipeline and rail sectors.

National Security Council official Caitlin Durkovich speaks on critical infrastructure security and resilience efforts this week, while the accreditation body behind the Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program holds its monthly town hall meeting featuring a guest speaker from the Defense Department.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and CMU’s Software Engineering Institute are working together on a project aimed at examining the divergence between Software Bill of Materials outputs across the product development ecosystem.

Critical infrastructure entities should ensure they promptly respond to the concerns of network defenders to avoid putting their systems at risk, according to a recent publication from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency providing findings from a red team assessment.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is helping companies build on each other’s successes in implementing secure by design practices, according to agency official Jack Cable, along with examining vulnerability reporting metrics to determine the impact of the initiative.