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Securing the Software Supply Chain Takes on New Urgency

GovLoop

Since about 2017, we’ve seen a steady increase in the number of intentionally malicious components that are put into these repositories,” Fox said. A memo from the Office of Management and Budget (M-22-18) calls for agencies to enhance the security of the software supply chain through secure software development practices.

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If you're going to promote electric bikes at scale, there needs to be complementary investment in secure bicycle parking and charging

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

One of the biggest problems with cycling take up, besides the fact that it's slower, so longer trips are less likely to be capturable--even so, 64% of all US trips are 7 miles or less--is secure bicycle parking. Sure there is bicycle parking, but most of it isn't secure. Lack of secure parking is a real problem.

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Cyber risk: how secure is our critical infrastructure?

Open Access Government - Technology News

These attacks, and others going back as far as 2017, attributed to Russia by the CIA , have shut down airports, banks, government ministries and even radiation monitoring at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Keeping critical national infrastructure secure. A chilling reminder of the damage a determined state actor can cause.

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Episode 6: The Business of Homeland Security

FedHeads

This week, Francis and Robert welcome Marc Pearl, President and CEO of the Homeland Security Defense Business Council (HSDBC) and David Haun, Director at Grant Thornton to discuss the latest survey of the homeland security enterprise about the effort to protect the homeland.

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EU government employees can build cloud skills with new, no-cost AWS learning plans

AWS Public Sector Blog

The new, no-cost AWS learning plans for EU government include role-based training focused on cloud fundamentals, security, architecture, machine learning (ML), and other key topics. AWS has seen strong adoption of its cloud solutions by EU government customers seeking security, scalability, and innovation.

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Ransomware attacks remain the most acute threat to organisations

Open Access Government - Technology News

Ransomware attacks continue to be the most dominant threat to UK organisations and are having catastrophic consequences on critical national infrastructure The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), part of (GCHQ), recently released its annual review reflecting on the challenges and milestones across the cybersecurity industry.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

Cyber experts often emphasize that there’s no silver bullet for improving the security of government systems. A recent study by Tenable Research found that many organizations were falling victim to attacks that exploited well-known vulnerabilities, including some dating to 2017. The problem is not that technology always falls short.

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