The Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act would give the Office of Management and Budget a year to develop a plan to migrate civilian federal agencies to post-quantum encryption standards and begin prioritizing the migration of high-risk devices and systems.
By Ralph Pisani
May 27, 2021
Recently, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency information security specialist Jay Gazlay said the SolarWinds breach made it clear that “identity is everything now.” Tighter identity controls, including behavior analysis techniques, can flag impossible logins, Gazlay told the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. “If we don’t get set up to do that, we’re not going to notice these user impersonation attacks that become
de rigueur for our adversaries.”
In 2004, the U.S. invested billions in the Einstein intrusion detection system to protect government resources on the internet. Over the years and despite enhancements, Einstein 3.0 failed to detect the SolarWinds cyberattack on the Departments of Treasury, State, Defense, Homeland Security and Commerce, the Postal Service and the National Institutes of Health.
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