Author: Christopher Prawdzik

Publisher and Executive Editor of Homeland411. Over twenty years experience reporting on national security, defense technologies, and federal emergency preparedness.

CISA Declares a CVE ‘Quality Era’ as Vulnerability Volume Heads Toward 96,000 This Year

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity | October 8, 2026

CISA’s new framework shifts the CVE Program from growth to data quality as 2026 CVE counts head toward 96,000, the NVD rations enrichment and the weekly Vulnerability Bulletin ends Sept. 28. [Read more.]

FBI-Japan Advisory Says North Korea’s Contagious Interview Hackers Infected 30,000 Devices

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity | September 22, 2026

North Korean hackers posing as recruiters infected at least 30,000 computers in more than 100 countries over eight months, according to a joint advisory from law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the United States, Japan, Australia and Germany. The operators… [Read more.]

Record Patch Load Puts CISA’s New BOD 26-04 Under Pressure

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity | September 21, 2026

WASHINGTON — The remediation window for three actively exploited Linux kernel vulnerabilities closes today for federal civilian agencies. It is one of the most demanding deadlines yet under the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) new risk-based patching directive, and… [Read more.]

SAFER SKIES Comment Period Closes as Agencies Build State and Local Counter-Drone Certification Pipeline

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Transportation | September 18, 2026

WASHINGTON — The public comment window on the interim final rules implementing the SAFER SKIES Act closed September 4, moving the most significant expansion of domestic drone mitigation authority since 2018 out of the drafting stage and into an implementation… [Read more.]

CISA Issues First Dedicated Guidance on Cyber Decoys as Defenders Confront Living-off-the-Land Intrusions

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity | September 18, 2026

WASHINGTON — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published its first guidance document devoted specifically to defensive cyber deception, urging critical infrastructure owners and operators to seed their networks with realistic decoy systems and data as a counter to… [Read more.]

Department of Energy and FERC Enforce Mandatory Geomagnetic and EMP Standards for Bulk Power System

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity, Top411 | May 19, 2026

WASHINGTON — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation have finalized binding reliability standards requiring electric transmission utilities to install physical defenses against ext... [Read more.]

TSA and FAA Issue Mandatory Counter-Drone Detection and Tracking Requirements for Class-I Airports

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Top411, Transportation | April 23, 2026

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Aviation Administration have finalized binding technical standards mandating passive radio-frequency and radar counter-drone surveillance grids at all Category X and... [Read more.]

DHS Directs Interagency Exclusion of Foreign-Manufactured Drones and Video Surveillance Equipment

By Christopher Prawdzik | In DHS, Top411 | November 18, 2025

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has issued a comprehensive interagency exclusion order directing the mandatory removal and replacement of foreign-manufactured commercial drones and closed-circuit video surveillance equip... [Read more.]

Interagency Advisory Details Pre-Positioned Living-off-the-Land Cyber Intrusions in Utility Networks

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity, Top411 | August 14, 2025

WASHINGTON — In one of the most sobering cybersecurity warnings in federal history, CISA, the NSA, and the FBI have revealed that Chinese state-sponsored threat group "Volt Typhoon" has pre-positioned malicious access within American wat... [Read more.]

FAA and TSA Conclude Multi-Sensor Counter-UAS Drone Swarm Mitigation Trials

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Top411, Transportation | May 20, 2025

DALLAS — The Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration have concluded a comprehensive two-year operational evaluation of multi-sensor counter-drone technologies at Dallas Fort Worth and Miami Internat... [Read more.]

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