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Agencies to start implementing transparency law for Congressional reports in October

New OMB guidance tells agencies how to implement the new Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act, which requires most reports to Congress to be made public via a free web portal.
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Google takes a swing at Microsoft, alleges anticompetitive cloud practices: report

The Federal Trade Commission stands at the center of an ongoing hyperscaler battle over cloud market dominance, as a skirmish erupts between the second and third largest providers.
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Schumer calls for ‘new process’ to regulate AI, urging speed in Congress

AI moves at a near existential speed, the Senate majority leader said Wednesday. “The traditional approach of committee hearings play an essential role but won’t on their own suffice.”
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Baffle launches new user interface to simplify application data security

Data security software provider Baffle has released Baffle Manager 2.0, an interface upgrade to automate enterprise-level data protection for applications, analytics, and AI. The user interface upgrade is aimed at simplifying application-level encryptions, which were difficult and time-consuming with legacy systems, the company said in a press statement. “Baffle Manager 2.0 is a single platform where users can create and manage their data protection policies across the cloud, legacy, and third-party applications and stay on the forefront of new AI initiatives,” said Ameesh Divatia, co-founder and chief executive officer at Baffle. To read this article in full, please click here
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Why CISOs should be concerned about space-based attacks

Russia didn’t just attack Ukraine on the ground when it invaded that country on February 24, 2022, it also raided Ukraine’s data connections in space. On that date, “a multifaceted and deliberate cyber-attack against Viasat’s KA-SAT network resulted in a partial interruption of KA-SAT’s consumer-oriented satellite broadband service,” Viasat reported on March 30, 2022. According to the satellite services provider, “the cyber-attack did impact several thousand customers located in Ukraine and tens of thousands of other fixed broadband customers across Europe.” They included the remote monitoring and control of 5,800 wind turbines owned by Germany’s Enercon, with a total capacity of 11 gigawatts. To read this article in full, please click here
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BrandPost: 5 key steps to push back against business email compromise

Business email fraud is accelerating, with attacks becoming much more sophisticated and successful. In its 2022 Internet Crime Report, the FBI cited more than 21,000 business email compromise (BEC) complaints, equivalent to adjusted losses of over $2.7 billion. While ransomware attacks are “noisy” and call a great deal of attention to themselves, BEC attacks are more subtle. BEC is a confidence game designed around trust and human nature. Bad actors use widely available tools to improve the scale, plausibility, and success rate of malicious emails. This makes BEC attacks hard to fight. Instead of malware attacks exploiting unpatched devices, perpetrators rely on social engineering to get user credentials, financial information, or even con victims into transferring money. Defending against this line of attack takes a combination of technology and human awareness. Here’s what to watch out for, along with steps you can take now to help defend your enterprise. To read this article in full, please click here
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Defending Patient Privacy: Identity Security Strategies for Healthcare

Join our identity security experts for a webinar as they explore the criticality of next-generation identity security, and steps that institutions can take to craft a modern healthcare cybersecurity strategy.
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Cloud Exchange 2023: TSA’s Yemi Oshinnaiye on cloud driving CX improvements

TSA Chief Information Officer Yemi Oshinnaiye says one of his top priorities is improving customer experience across all agency missions.
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BlueDelta Exploits Ukrainian Government Roundcube Mail Servers to Support Espionage Activities

A new report details a campaign by the threat actor, BlueDelta, likely intended to enable intelligence-gathering to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Why assessing third parties for security risk is still an unsolved problem

A Forbes article is making the rounds right now about America’s most cyber-secure companies, and I can already see the cybersecurity outrage machine up in arms. Full confession: I haven’t yet read the article, but I’m about to. I’m writing this in two parts: before I read the article, and after I read the article. Part I: What are the most cyber-secure companies? If you ask me to list the most cyber-secure companies (what does that even mean?), here is my shortlist, in roughly the order I think of them: Top tier: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon To read this article in full, please click here
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