On May 7, the ransomware gang DarkSide locked up the information technology (IT) systems of Colonial Pipeline, the energy distributor responsible for shipping nearly half of the East Coast’s gas and jet fuel. Unable to confirm whether the industrial…
Paul Rosenzweig, a former senior Department of Homeland Security official, told USA Today that the attacks on an oil pipeline and then a meat supplier ‘shows that nothing is safe.’ ‘Not the meatpacking industry, not the chemical industry, not the…
UPDATE: JBS USA, the world’s largest meat supplier, has reportedly shut down its five biggest U.S. plants in the wake of a cyberattack. JBS USA, the world’s largest meat supplier, says it was the target of an “organized cybersecurity attack.” In a…
One pressing problem is that while chief information security officers may know cyber hygiene and best practices, they’re often resorting to guesswork about whether, for example, $5 million should be spent on employee training or threat-hunting…
Paul Rosenzweig, a senior fellow at the nonprofit public policy research organization R Street Institute, said the government should prioritize establishing a Bureau of Cyber Statistics. As noted in the March 2020 Solarium report, such a bureau would…
Paul Rosenzweig, the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC and the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security, gave a live presentation on measuring cybersecurity on April 7, 2021. Among other works on the…
