Why federal cyber defense demands an offense-driven mindset
Static checklists and annual penetration tests leave agencies with dangerous blind spots. True resilience requires moving from reactive attestation to continuous, automated validation.
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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
In most cities, nobody owns the whole network
July’s intrusions reached water controllers that sat on a cellular link no city network scan would find. Naming an owner and paying for the fix are decisions…
Defending in the middle of the vulnpocalypse
WatchTowr founder and CEO Ben Harris
The AI Kill Switch Act is repeating the Clipper Chip’s mistakes
Mandating ‘kill switches’ for AI agents would threaten the security of America’s critical infrastructure and undercut U.S. AI leadership. Congress must reject the AI Kill Switch Act.
The Vulnpocalypse arrived early
NEA partner Aaron Jacobson
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Three 10.0 security flaws fixed across Ubiquiti’s UniFi line
The communications product company disclosed 22 total Wednesday, all but one of which was rated “critical” at 9.0 or higher.
Water sector passes, government sector fails attempts to spot and halt simulated CISA attack
Agency red-teamers got initial access to both organizations they tested, but one quickly isolated and shut down the attempts from going further.
Rethinking how federal cyber hiring actually works
Christopher Bloor, Defense Director at the SANS Institute
The push to designate AI as the next critical infrastructure sector
The designation would unlock a range of federal services, tools and resources for an industry that policymakers view as increasingly tied to national and economic security.
AI-fueled attacks pose ‘active threat’ to water, other sectors, U.S. agencies warn
The agencies said the hackers are taking aim at Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers in what could be a first.
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