Compliance Management

Her lawyer said the move was "expected" and claimed DOD has an obligation to find an "appropriate new position" for Arrington, as rumors swirl that she may be preparing another run for Congress.

A lawyer for Katie Arrington, a former DoD cybersecurity official, told SC Media that the settlement will give them access to information around an incident that led the NSA to suspend Arrington's security clearance and place her on administrative leave last year.

The findings of an inspector general report are part of a concerning pattern at Commerce: previous audits have found little movement or further maturity in the department’s IT security operations since 2017.

Financial institutions over the last few years have paid multi-million dollar penalties related to security mismanagement that led to breaches or a failure to give appropriate notification to customers about compromises.

The $6.8 million project is expected to align DoD with President Joe Biden's cybersecurity executive order while emphasizing data protection and newer technologies like secure access service edge (SASE) and software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WAN).

More than 5,000 health plan beneficiaries that discovered personal and protected health information was stolen are wondering what the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority was doing with their records in the first place, which in turn prompted a state investigation. Details point to failures that may not be exclusive to RIPTA: a lack of mechanisms in place to flag inappropriate sharing of personal information, and to delete that information when improperly received.