The House Appropriations Committee has unveiled funding legislation that would defer the expiration of both the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act and the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program until November 21, or seven weeks after the original September 30 deadline, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Purchasing power is increasingly consolidating under the executive branch. Federal digital systems procurement, long a decentralized process where agencies pursued their own paths, is inevitably subject to and being reshaped by the same trend.
Drata and Exclusive Networks have broadened their partnership to bring Drata's trust management and compliance automation platform to IT resellers and managed service providers across the UK, Ireland, DACH, and Nordic regions, reports Security Brief United Kingdom.
Implementation of the Cyber Incentive program aimed at bolstering the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's retention of its mission-critical cybersecurity workforce was discovered by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General to have gone awry, FedScoop reports.
The Information Commissioner's Office has warned that UK schools are facing a rising threat from insider data breaches, with 57% traced back to students, according to Infosecurity Magazine.
Congress has been pressed by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Executive Assistant Director of Cybersecurity Nicholas Andersen to approve legislation extending the 2015 Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Act before its expiry by the end of the month, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. "Information sharing is going to persist no matter what, within the bounds of whatever legal construct that we have.
