Category: Cybersecurity

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.]

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.]

Post-Quantum Cryptography: NIST Standards Trigger Interagency Encryption Migration Roadmap

By Sandra Sadek | In Cybersecurity, Top411 | January 22, 2025

WASHINGTON — Following the publication of finalized Federal Information Processing Standards for post-quantum encryption, the White House Office of Management and Budget has directed all federal civilian departments to initiate binding a... [Read more.]

Federal Evaluation Highlights Rapid Adoption of CISA Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity, Top411 | November 19, 2024

WASHINGTON — A comprehensive interagency progress assessment reveals that small and medium-sized critical infrastructure operators have achieved substantial improvements in baseline cyber hygiene by adopting CISA’s Cross-Sector Cybersecu... [Read more.]

Executive Order Strengthens Maritime Cyber Defense and Domestic Port Gantry Crane Security

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity, Top411 | February 21, 2024

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has signed an Executive Order granting the U.S. Coast Guard sweeping new regulatory authorities to secure commercial maritime ports against foreign cyber espionage and potential physical sabotage targetin... [Read more.]

Intelligence Community Warns of Generative AI Integration in Asymmetric Cyber Operations

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity, Top411 | May 23, 2023

WASHINGTON — Senior intelligence officials and CISA analysts have released an unclassified advisory warning that foreign state-sponsored cyber adversaries and ransomware cartels are weaponizing commercial and open-source generative artif... [Read more.]

CISA Launches Shields Up Campaign to Protect Critical Infrastructure

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity, Top411 | February 25, 2022

WASHINGTON — In the hours following the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency initiated an unprecedented national defense mobilization dubbed "Shields Up," urging every critical asset ... [Read more.]

OMB and CISA Release Federal Zero Trust Strategy Implementation Roadmap

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity, Top411 | November 18, 2021

WASHINGTON — The White House Office of Management and Budget, in collaboration with CISA, has published a definitive federal strategy directing civilian agencies to achieve strict Zero Trust cybersecurity architectures before the end of ... [Read more.]

Pipeline Ransomware Attack Prompts Binding TSA Cybersecurity Directives

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity, Top411 | May 14, 2021

WASHINGTON — The catastrophic ransomware attack that forced the shutdown of the 5,500-mile Colonial Pipeline has spurred the Department of Homeland Security to issue unprecedented mandatory cybersecurity directives for critical oil and n... [Read more.]

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