Few know it, but the great songwriter Kenny Rogers also had a lot to teach the world about cybersecurity. No. Seriously. His classic song, “The Gambler,” is not just a story about wagering, it can be read as a parable about cybersecurity and, in…
The 20th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Homeland Security looms in early 2023. What should the next Quadrennial Homeland Security Review study? The 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America passed in Sept. 2021. The…
Monoculture risk is manageable for most systems, but that isn’t the case for government systems. For these systems, monoculture vulnerability is a national security risk. Nature, they say, abhors a vacuum. It also abhors a monoculture. That’s because…
Bloomberg Government subscribers get the stories like this first. Act now and gain unlimited access to everything you need to know. Learn more. House lawmakers are vying to reshape the Department of Homeland Security — a sprawling agency formed to…
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. (Flickr/Prachatai, https://flic.kr/p/2jAvs2f; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) Will Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko—“Europe’s last dictator,” who ordered the…
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles) introduced the Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act, legislation that would amend the federal contracts title to require vendors that wish to do business with the United States Government…
