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CISA issues third emergency directive since SolarWinds
Tatyana Bolton, a former CISA official and now policy director of the Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats program at the R Street Institute, said the uptick in directives is indicative of the agency gaining confidence as the country’s cybersecurity watchdog.
“With the elevation of CISA through the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, more funding in the recent COVID bill, and its growing stature, CISA now feels more confident to put out directives that will protect greater swaths of our federal networks,” she said.
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By Justin Katz
Hours after warning that government agencies have been affected by vulnerabilities found in a piece of virtual private networking software, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued its third emergency directive in five months to civilian federal agencies.
The new directive instructs agencies to repeatedly run a tool on all devices using Pulse Connect Secure products that checks for issues associated with exploits allegedly being used by a hacking campaign with links to the Chinese government.
If the tool does not detect an issue, agencies should continue to run it daily until a patch is developed or apply a workaround mitigation. CISA also wrote that it is coordinating its response with FedRAMP, the government s program to provide a standardized security assessment for cloud products and services.
The Cybersecurity 202: Cybersecurity experts say elevating and supporting Black professionals is key to workforce shortage
#ShareTheMicInCyber has also partnered with the nonprofit think tank R Street Institute for a project called “Making Space.” The initiative started as a pledge [2] to get organizations to commit to including women and minorities on panels they hosted or sponsored. It now boasts more than 40 partners and has expanded to other work, including a new effort to launch an online database [3] for organizations and companies to connect with Black professionals.
“What I didn’t want to do is publish a pledge and get people signed on board without giving them the resources to make that pledge actionable,” said Tatyana Bolton, policy director for R Street’s Cybersecurity & Emerging Threats team. “Part of the problem is that people always say, ‘I love diversity and we absolutely want women and people of color on our panels and events. We want to hire the
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