The US Vice President committed the US to signing onto the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace. A initiative announced by the French President in 2018. In a commitment by the US and France to cooperate on cybersecurity…
If cyber change is going to be felt quickly in the US it is likely to be through the NDAA, and proposed legislation including the ‘Cyber Incident Reporting Act’‚Â and‚Â ‘Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA 2021)’ wants to jump on board.…
CMMC 2.0 was published in early November recommending closer cyber cooperation between the US, its allies and partners. The enclosed article is a worth a read as there appears to be an increasing recognition by the US that its partners…
The US passed legislation this week to secure telecommunications systems against potential foreign threats. Banning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from considering or issuing authorization for products from companies on the FCCs covered list. US legislation is moving at pace…
Can someone help please? All defence contractors need to comply and flow down NIST SP 800-171 if they have DFARS 252.204 – 7012 in their contracts. Requiring them to implement 110 cyber practices, submit compliance scores to SPRS and prepare…
A very useful critique by Bloomberg of US cyber legislation S. 2875 (the Cyber Incident Reporting Act of 2021) and‚Â H.R. 5440 (Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act) and the role of CISA. With both the ‘carrot and stick’ now…
CISA promotes the use of CyberSecurity Framework (CSF) profiles to improve cybersecurity resilience and cyber-risk management. With frameworks created for chemical industry, commercial facilities, critical manufacturing, dams, defense industrial base, emergency services, federal, healthcare & public health, nuclear, transportation systems…
Last week the US Congress moved a step closer to implementing cybersecurity across the whole of Federal government, as it signed the 2021/2022 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. A rather innocuous sounding Act, yet one that will have a significant…
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I spoke to AFCEA London on the 4th of November on changes to US cyber regulation, legislation and enforcement. What they mean to the UK and European Defence Industry Base (DIB) and the impact they could have on the complex…
