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At a Senate hearing on Defense Department cybersecurity, lawmakers wanted to know whether a program aimed at hardening the security of the defense industrial base would thwart supply chain attacks.
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The decision to ban Kaspersky Lab products and services from federal agency networks and systems may just have been a shot across the bow.
The Justice Department is considering rolling out the big guns against companies owned and operated by Russian nationals.
John Demers, the assistant attorney general for National Security in DoJ, said in light of the SolarWinds attack, Justice, along with the FBI and the intelligence community, launched a new effort to see where there may be supply chain vulnerabilities of companies that are Russian or are doing business in Russia.
Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division John Demers. (Jim Watson via AP)
By Adam Mazmanian
May 19, 2021
In the wake of infiltration of government and private networks through SolarWinds software and the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, lawmakers are looking to reduce the exposure of federal and critical infrastructure systems to hacks.
The Pentagon’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program is designed to be one key line of defense. The program sets out five maturity models applicable to defense industrial base contractors based on the level of sensitivity of information stored in their systems. Under the program, obtaining a certification of compliance at the appropriate risk level is an allowable cost. However, the extent to which contractors may have to dig into their own pockets to obtain certification is a running concern so much so that Kathleen Hicks, the deputy secretary of defense, ordered a review of the program in March.
Lawmakers Grill Pentagon Officials on How to Prevent Another Colonial Pipeline-Style Attack
May 18, 2021 6:39 PM
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Members of a key cyber panel wanted to know why the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t alerted to the ransomware attack that set off panic-buying of gasoline and whether the Pentagon could have taken measures to stop it before it happened.
Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-W.Va.) said at Tuesday’s Senate Armed Services cyber subcommittee hearing that what happened when the Colonial Pipeline was shut down “was an attack to me” coming from outside the U.S. and had implications for the Pentagon.