by Paul Rosenzweig | May 31, 2021 | Cybersecurity
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | May 31, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | May 31, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | May 23, 2021 | Cybersecurity
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | May 23, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Homeland Security
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…
by Paul Rosenzweig | May 23, 2021 | Cybersecurity, National Security
On the heels of three major cybersecurity incidents over the past six months—the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange supply chain attacks and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack—government officials and some in the private sector are reviving calls…
