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Last month, I sat down with Gregory B. to talk through his top priorities across culture, tech and compliance. Read more about how he wants to ramp up FITARA enforcement; making buying technology - not building it, the default for government; and "do the damn thing" with Login gov. https://lnkd.in/eiZWmcRs

Last month, I sat down with Gregory B. to talk through his top priorities across culture, tech and compliance. Read more about how he wants to ramp up FITARA enforcement; making buying technology - not building it, the default for government; and "do the damn thing" with Login gov. https://lnkd.in/eiZWmcRs

How does the Pentagon's new artificial intelligence strategy enable the military to adopt emerging tools?

White House cyber shop is crafting AI security policy framework, top official says

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., said Tuesday that Verizon and AT&T are preventing the release of documents tied to Salt Typhoon, a Chinese cyber collective that infiltrated U.S. telecom networks and other communications systems around the world. Cantwell wrote in a letter that she sought network security assessments conducted by Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant, but said the company declined to hand over the materials after receiving direction from both AT&T and Verizon. Now, Cantwell wants the companies' chief executives to testify before Congress. Both carriers, which were accessed by the hackers at some point before the breaches were discovered in 2024, “have chosen not to cooperate, which raises serious questions about the extent to which Americans who use these networks remain exposed to unacceptable risk,” Cantwell wrote in a letter addressed to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Cantwell serves as ranking member of the panel. Read more below from Cyber Reporter David DiMolfetta! https://lnkd.in/erMxJzfw

An “ongoing policy dialogue” between stakeholders is the latest update in the development of a cyber intelligence-sharing body focused on AI security that the White House ordered last year, a top Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency official said. Nick Andersen, CISA’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, provided the update about the AI Information-Sharing and Analysis Center, or AI-ISAC, at the Information Technology Industry Council’s Intersect policy summit on Tuesday. The info-sharing group, unveiled last summer as part of the sweeping White House AI strategy, is being discussed among industry and government officials working to pull together the right resources for the center without accidental duplication, Andersen said. “We just want to make sure we’ve got the right elements of, how do we pull together people, and how do we take advantage of the leadership position that we have” early on, he said. He added that the U.S. doesn’t want to stand up an information-sharing initiative too similar to what may already exist among private-sector players. Read more below from Cybersecurity Reporter David DiMolfetta! https://lnkd.in/eN439syR

US developed ‘non-kinetic’ cell ahead of Venezuela mission to push cyber operations

Scoop⚡️as I previously reported, the Trump administration is in the process of crafting a new executive order (or more) all about advancing the U.S. quantum ecosystem. A copy I saw is doing just that: supercharging the federal government’s role in accelerating basic research as well as the larger, more pressing infrastructure needs a distributed quantum network will demand. Commerce, Energy, NSF and more are all set to play major roles in this effort, with OSTP leading the charge ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eyQ-GT-T

The White House Office of the National Cyber Director is developing an AI security policy framework to bolt security measures into U.S-led AI tech stacks, the office’s top official said Tuesday. National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross, speaking at the Information Technology Industry Council’s Intersect policy summit, did not indicate when this framework would be finalized, but said the project is a “hand-in-glove” effort with the Office of Science and Technology Policy. President Donald Trump “is very forward leaning on the innovation side of AI,” Cairncross said. “We are working to ensure that security is not viewed as a friction point for innovation” but is built into AI systems foundationally, he added. An AI security blueprint helps organizations manage risks that affect how their AI systems function. Security experts frequently cite data poisoning attacks, which change the underlying data an AI system is trained on, as a possible risk to companies and governments. Also top of mind in the cyber community are agentic security tools that can self-automate cyber intrusions. In November, Anthropic said suspected Chinese hackers used the company’s signature AI tool to automate about 80% 90% of a hacking operation that targeted some 30 organizations worldwide. Read more below from Cyber Reporter David DiMolfetta! https://lnkd.in/eu_jcQhX

VA secretary: EHR deployments are ‘going to be done in the right way’