New York Adopts Law Protecting Power Grid from Cyber Attacks

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation to create cybersecurity protections for the state’s energy grid. The legislation (designated A.3904B/S.5579A) will require utilities to prepare for cyberattacks in their annual emergency response plans, just as they would for storm or Read More …

NATO Agency signs important cyber security agreements

The NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) signed two multiple award, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contracts with King ICT Croatia and IBM Belgium, for the provision of cyber security deployment and configuration services across the NATO Enterprise. Following Read More …

DHS Opens 23.1 Small Business Innovation Research Solicitation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE S&T Public Affairs, 202-254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 23.1 Solicitation is now open and accepting applications from U.S. small businesses interested in submitting research proposals for seven diverse Read More …

FBI: Criminal Actors Use Business Email Compromise to Steal Large Shipments of Food Products and Ingredients

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Food and Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA OCI), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to advise the Food & Agriculture sector about recently Read More …

Cyber Signals: Risks to critical infrastructure on the rise

Today, the third edition of Cyber Signals was released spotlighting security trends and insights gathered from Microsoft’s 43 trillion daily security signals and 8,500 security experts. In this edition, we share new insights on wider risks that converging IT, Internet Read More …

Protecting major events: an incident response blueprint

The cyber security of major events, whether they are related to sports, professional conferences, expos or other events can be a time-consuming, complex undertaking. It necessitates a multifaceted approach and the involvement of multiple entities, including but not limited to Read More …

Cybersecurity laws to be updated to boost UK protection from cyber attacks

The UK’s cybersecurity laws will be updated to require outsourced IT providers to meet security standards as part of efforts to better protect supply chains, the Government has announced. The Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations will be updated so Read More …

Cloudflare finds a way through China’s network defences

Cloudflare has found a way to extend some of its services across the Great Firewall and into mainland China. “Performance and reliability for traffic flows across the mainland China border have been a consistent challenge for IT teams within multinational Read More …