Olaf Classen, when you are so dependent on a product or service to run you business operations considering cybersecurity is important. Even more so when your products and services are raised as a threat to National Security. Globally the public…
The FBI has been raising the threat of Chinese backed hackers attacking U.S CNI for the passed year. One has to hope that CNI providers have taken the warning seriously. For security agencies such as the NSA to come out…
One has to say that the message isn’t wrong and has been proven by the U.S. The U.S has shown through several GAO audits that the Defense Industry Base, both domestic and international, have in general not complied with DFARS…
One suspects that cases being bought under False Claims Act against DoD contracts and DFARs compliance are being held back by resource constraints. But cases are being unsealed and as one who has paid close attention to the DoDs cybersecurity…
One has to agree that developing countries provide the ideal proving ground for cyber attack dry runs, ahead of deploying threats to more valuable targets in richer countries. It just makes good business sense. Less developed countries make the ideal…
South Korean defense contractors and their suppliers have been targeted by North Korean hackers over the past 18 months with increased complexity. Local media reports 83 defense companies and their contractors had confidential information stolen between October 2022 and July…
It was a pleasure to deliver our NIST CSF 2.0 Essentials for Internal Auditor yesterday. We had over 1,200 attendees, an indication that the CSF is a topic of interest to many, including internal audit. As CSF is adopt more…
National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) released an update to its Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) profile in February 2024 and in March the U.S DoD issued it Defense Industry Base (DIB) Strategy nested under NIST CSF. ‘A primary framework the…
There is no rhetoric or posturing anymore, should we be concerned? On Friday 19th April Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the formation of the Information Support Force. A strategic branch of the People’s Liberation Army, with a simple aim, to…
Thank you for posting Olaf Classen. It should be of no surprise that the German automotive VW has been spied on by another nation state for years. All that R&D and IP no doubt acquired with little effort and not…
