By: Makoto Mizuyama Member of the board of directors, FinalCode The cyberthreat landscape is complex and constantly evolving, and we saw a constant stream of breaches in 2016 ranging from the embarrassing (exposure of email addresses on a fetish website) to the ominous (IoT-based distributed denial of service attacks) to the manipulative (Russian hacking during … Continue reading Cybersecurity trends for 2017: It’s all about the data
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Fact Check: NextGov’s 2016 Tech Predictions
TWB CEO John Breeden made three bold predictions in NextGov magazine about what 2016 would hold for government and technology. We go back and check his work, seeing how many of those predictions came true.
Time Crunch: Federal Contractors Scramble to Clear NISPOM Change 2
Upon winning a government contract, many corporate executives breathe a sigh of relief. But these sighs may now be replaced by moans of frustration upon realizing what it takes to remain compliant with federal cybersecurity standards. The National Industrial Security Policy Operating Manual (NISPOM) is a perfect example of tightening cybersecurity requirements for federal contractors, … Continue reading Time Crunch: Federal Contractors Scramble to Clear NISPOM Change 2
NextGov Tech Column: Change 2 for NISPOM Approved
Change 2 to the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual will require companies working with classified government information to create a full insider threat program. Despite that burden, it should be embraced in these troubling times.
21st Century Tech Column: Body Cams in Miami-Dade
It’s a sad fact that relationships between police and the communities they serve are, in some parts of the country, at an all-time low. The Miami-Dade County Police Department is attempting to change that by using some interesting new technology to reach out to the community it serves.
Tenable Security Blog – Defending the Defenders: USS Zumwalt
On October 15, 2016, the naval commissioning ceremony for the USS Zumwalt will take place in the Port of Baltimore. The USS Zumwalt is not only the newest ship in the U.S. Navy, it represents a new class of warship that takes naval technology to a new level.
NextGov Weekly Tech Column: NASA working to save Earth from Deadly Meteor Strikes
This week in John Breeden’s NextGov column, he writes about an unlikely NASA presentation that happened at a riotous sci-fi party in Reykjavik, Iceland. It turns out that all those worries about asteroids hitting Earth and killing everyone should soon be a thing of the past as NASA works to complete a new planetary defense platform by 2025.