The Office of Management and Budget has given federal agencies a series of new tasks over the next six months to assess their endpoint detection and response capabilities, identify visibility gaps and make sure they have the resources and staff to manage whichever EDR tool they end up adopting.
HC3, CISA, and the FDA released separate guides that tackle some of the largest challenges facing health care: communicating medical device risks to patients, evaluating insider vulnerabilities, and securing VPNs.
Medtronic disclosed a critical vulnerability in all MiniMed Remote Controllers used in certain insulin pumps in 2018. Medtronic has since recalled the devices, which the FDA identified as the most serious type of recall.
The White House wants the federal government to catalogue all of its devices and implement endpoint detection and response capabilities by 2024. To get there, agencies will have to navigate some of the same complex and unpleasant realities of the EDR market that have plagued the private sector for years.
The Department of Energy is giving out a million dollars to research organizations to work on different ways to enhance the cybersecurity infrastructure and efficiency of advanced manufacturing supply chains.
Huawei cloud services used by more than 40 countries pose security and privacy concerns due to system access provided to the Chinese Communist Party, according to a letter sent by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., urging Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to combat further expansion of such service use.
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