CISA Releases Resource Guide for University Cybersecurity Clinics

Today, CISA released a Resource Guide for Cybersecurity Clinics to outline ways CISA can partner with and support cybersecurity clinics and their clients. University cybersecurity clinics train students from diverse backgrounds and academic expertise to strengthen the digital defenses of...

CISA Releases its Cybersecurity Strategic Plan

Today, CISA released a strategic plan to lay out how we will fulfill our cybersecurity mission over the next three years. The CISA Cybersecurity Strategic Plan aligns the following nine objectives to specific enabling measures and measures of effectiveness to drive accountability: 1. Increase...

CISA's Annual National Cybersecurity Summit

CISA will host its fourth annual National Cybersecurity Summit on Wednesdays during the month of October. The 2021 Summit will be held as a series of four virtual events bringing stakeholders together in a forum for meaningful conversation: Oct. 6 - Assembly Required: The Pieces of the...

Rethinking how we learn security

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article on the relative lack of investor and startup interest in addressing a crucial CISO priority—the preparedness of employees on the security team. Considering what seems to be a steady stream of news about breaches, what can be done to encourage more people ...

Addressing the Cyber Security Skills Gap, Part 1

Operating in an adversarial driven world, cyber defenders are faced with many obstacles. In effort to keep pace with our adversarial counterpart, the cyber security skills gap has become the silent oppressor. In Part 1 of this multi-part blog series we will define the implications presented by th...

Federal Focus on Cyber Plays Out in President's Budget, IoT Legislation

The federal government is stepping up its game this week on the cybersecurity front, with both proposed budget line items that would requisition nearly $11 billion for cyber, and the introduction of the Internet of Things IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019, which would require that devices...

Malwarebytes is a champion of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

October is here. For most of us in the US cybersecurity industry, it’s the month when we commemorate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM. For those who are unfamiliar with this campaign, NCSAM generally aims at driving awareness for safe Internet use, whether you're a regular consumer or...

Trump's Cybersecurity Executive Order Under Fire

NEW YORK–President Donald Trump’s Cybersecurity Executive Order needs an overhaul, specifically a shift from planning and proposals to the pragmatic. According to Ed Amoroso, former AT&T CSO, there are dire consequences to the U.S. critical infrastructure if the U.S. government pursues its curren...

Coviello: '2012 Will Be the Year of Resiliency'

I just came back from a five-week trip of meeting with customers around the world and never in my entire career have CEOs and corporate boards been as interested in security as they are now. The common theme throughout these conversations was that we are facing a new reality – one of persistent,...

GAO: The DoD's Plan To Unify Cyber Defenses Looks Like Swiss Cheese

A new report out from the Government Accountability Office GAO warns that the U.S. Department of Defense’s efforts to unify its cyber security operations has serious gaps and that the Department is “unprepared to meet the current threat” of cyber attack. The report, issued on Monday, is an...