Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Jacob Livesay joined IWP in June 2023 as a reporter for Inside Cybersecurity. Prior to joining IWP, Jacob helped launch USA Today’s “Just Curious” front in the role of SEO/Evergreen Reporter and interned at Oklahoma City’s CBS affiliate station, KWTV, as a multimedia journalist. Jacob graduated from Georgetown University in 2023, where he received a B.A. in government and a minor in journalism.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is taking the lead on a supply chain security bill with Senate Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-MI) to require the Defense Department to purchase information technology products directly from original equipment manufacturers and authorized sellers in response to recent cyberattacks.
Katie Arrington is committed in her new role as acting chief information officer at the Pentagon to taking an aggressive approach to implementing zero trust across the Defense Department through enforcing high standards for budget priorities and working to change the acquisition landscape.
The Pentagon is setting zero-trust implementation goals for operational technology and the Internet of Things, according to acting Chief Information Officer Katie Arrington and program manager Randy Resnick, who provided updates at a symposium on the Defense Department's efforts to meet a fiscal year 2027 deadline for adopting zero trust.
U.S. Cyber Command must demonstrate offensive capabilities and enhance its workforce to deter Chinese threat actors from attacking critical infrastructure entities, according to CYBERCOM Executive Director Morgan Adamski, while the private sector works to shore up its defenses.
Government leaders plotting the next steps for civilian agencies in their zero trust journey should look to a solution architecture from the Navy as a model for implementation and apply a similar red-teaming approach for assurance, according to Microsoft chief federal security officer Steve Faehl.
The Justice Department has joined a whistleblower lawsuit against Georgia Institute of Technology and affiliate Georgia Tech Research Corp. for failing to implement cybersecurity requirements for defense contractors and submitting a false cyber assessment score to the Defense Department.
The federal government should streamline its cyber requirements with a specific focus on auditing and reporting, according to a new report from the R Street Institute offering recommendations on harmonization in response to an Office of the National Cyber Director request for information.
The National Security Agency has published guidance on how to protect applications and workloads from unauthorized access, as part of a series focused on supporting adoption of the Pentagon's zero-trust model across national security systems, the Defense Department and the defense industrial base.
The Aerospace Industries Association is asking the National Security Council to conduct a "cost-benefit" analysis when considering whether to designate any specific space capabilities as critical infrastructure, and to consider "space" itself as a domain, rather than creating a new critical infrastructure sector.
The Space Force is looking to enhance its supply chain security efforts by growing public-private partnerships, according to cyber official Col. Erica Mitchell.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Security Agency provide best practices in a recent publication addressing the virtual cloud software development pipeline, with a focus on mitigating risks in authentication and access, development environments and development processes.
The Defense Department is providing an overview of its free cybersecurity-as-a-service offerings to defense industrial base members as work to finalize its cyber certification program continues.