Swedish IT consultancy Knowit AB said on Wednesday it had acquired consultancy Cybercom for 2.2 billion Swedish crowns($259.60 million) as it seeks to gain share of growing market for cyber security and cloud services.
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Brad D. Williams on April 12, 2021 at 4:20 PM
WASHINGTON: The Biden administration today announced its intent to nominate John Chris Inglis as America’s first national cybersecurity director and Jen Easterly to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
Inglis is a former deputy director at the National Security Agency. He is expected to be confirmed by Congress. In the newly created position, he will join the White House’s current cybersecurity team, which includes NSA veteran Anne Neuberger, the first deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology.
The national cybersecurity director position was recommended by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission and created by the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, which became law on Jan. 1. The administration’s delay in nominating someone for the position has created tension between the White House and Congress in recent months.
Thu, Apr 1st 2021 10:57am
Tim Cushing
Never let a good crisis go to waste. The federal government is always on the lookout for expansion opportunities and a bad actor known colloquially as Current Events keeps handing the government what it s looking for.
On January 6th, a bunch of Trump fans, who thought it was possible to overturn certified election results, raided the Capitol building. Five people, including a Capitol police officer, died during the attack. This horrific event was turned into a chance to increase domestic surveillance by the incoming president, who threatened Americans with the sort of good time they ve been afflicted with since October 26, 2001.
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email Splitting NSA, CyberCom Now Could Reduce Military Access to Intelligence, Milley Says
The Joint Chiefs chairman says the organizations have not yet worked out how to keep the data flowing after the long-awaited split.
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Despite years of waiting and a last-minute push by Trump administration officials in December to separate NSA from Cyber Command, the criteria for separating the two has not yet been met, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says.
“For us in the military, the signals intelligence we get from the NSA is.unbelievably good,” Gen. Mark Milley told reporters last Wednesday aboard a Defense Department aircraft. “It’s among the most valuable pieces of intelligence we get on a daily basis. The last thing we want to do is anything that would cause harm to.the production and dissemination of that information
WASHINGTON: Cyber Command chief Gen. Paul Nakasone said Thursday that “CYBERCOM plays a continuing key role in the government-wide response” to the massive cyberespionage campaign against U.S. government entities and companies. “Certainly over the past few months,” he said, “the SolarWinds breach has focused our attention.”
Nakasone’s comments came on the same day security company FireEye, which was the first to publicize the SolarWinds hack after becoming a stage-two victim itself, published a blog post detailing a newly discovered backdoor it’s calling SUNSHUTTLE. The company said SUNSHUTTLE has a “possible connection to UNC2452” the name FireEye has given to a threat actor associated with the SolarWinds campaign.