Former CISA Director Jen Easterly Will Lead RSAC Conference

The longtime cybersecurity professional says she’s taking the helm of the legacy security organization at “an inflection point” for tech and the world beyond.

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Sen. Warner says classified meeting is canceled after Loomer criticism

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Commi…
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Army halts West Point hire of Biden’s cybersecurity chief

NEW YORK (AP) — The Secretary of the Army on Wednesday directed the U.S. Military Academy at West…
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https://www.newsbeep.com/29757/

"Let’s protect not just the systems, but the people and principles that make those systems worth defending.

Because the most significant vulnerability we face isn’t a zero-day vulnerability in our software, it’s a zero-day vulnerability in our civic integrity.

And the patch requires all of us."

/by #JenEasterly
/via @zackwhittaker

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-we-really-securing-jen-easterly-auyae/

#Cologne #ClimateJustice #Feminismus #YouthForClimate

What Are We Really Securing?

In a few days, tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals will descend on San Francisco for RSA, the world’s largest cybersecurity conference. We’ll talk about threats and vulnerabilities and, inevitably, about the promise of agentic AI.

I'm going to miss Jen Easterly when she leaves CISA. She got it and recommended actual root cause solutions (i.e. stop using memory-unsafe programming languages) instead of shilling for more vendor "solutions".
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/18/cisa-director-jen-easterly-to-depart-agency-on-january-20/

#cisa #jeneasterly

CISA Director Jen Easterly to depart agency on January 20 | TechCrunch

CISA's director will depart the agency after three years at the helm, as part of the "seamless transition" of government power.

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‘I don’t see it happening’: CISA chief dismisses ban on ransomware payments

“I do think we’ve made a difference, but I don’t think we’re going to make ransomware a shocking anomaly without successful implementation of a Secure-by-Design campaign”

#CISA #JenEasterly #ransomware #malware #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking

https://therecord.media/cisa-easterly-dismisses-ban-on-ransomware-payments

‘I don’t see it happening’: CISA chief dismisses ban on ransomware payments

Jen Easterly, the director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, on Thursday poured cold water on suggestions the United States might bring in a ban on ransomware payments.

This week featured vastly less travel than last week, but it also afforded me the rare experience of hearing an executive-branch appointee burst into song. And at the end of it, I carved out some time to write a post for Patreon readers about how certain PR pitches come with either a request or a stipulation that I cover the subject for a particular outlet.

4/23/2024: T-Mobile Adds New Fixed Wireless Plans: One for Home, One for the Road, PCMag

Of all of T-Mobile’s announcements Tuesday, the unlimited-data version of its new Away fixed-wireless plan was easily the most interesting.

4/23/2024: FTC Votes to Ban Non-Compete Clauses, PCMag

I wrote an update to the post I’d filed more than a year earlier when the Federal Trade Commission had started this rule-making process, explaining the particulars of the new FTC rule and noting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s plans to sue to overturn this ban.

4/25/2024: Feds Try Breaking Out Into Song to Get People to Take Ransomware Seriously, PCMag

I spent Wednesday at a conference in Washington hosted by the Institute for Security and Technology, then wrote this recap Thursday that led off with Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly singing a bit from an upcoming remake of Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Just A Bill.”

4/27/2024: Ep 99 SmartTechCheck Podcast – TikTok, smartphones and children, FCC broadband labels mandate, Mark Vena

I joined my tech-analyst friend’s podcast to discuss the new law requiring TikTok owner ByteDance to sell that social platform, the FCC’s broadband-labels regulation, how harmful smartphones might be to kids, and other tech topics.

Updated 5/5/2024 to add a link to the Patreon post.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/04/28/weekly-output-t-mobile-adds-fixed-wireless-plans-ftc-bans-non-compete-clauses-ransomware-prevention-mark-vena-podcast/

#cybersecurity #fixedWireless #FTCNonCompeteBan #informationSecurity #infosec #JenEasterly #MarkVena #nonCompeteClauses #ransomware #SchoolhouseRock #TMobile #TMobileHome5G #TMobileHomeInternet

Weekly output: Mark Vena podcast, nearshoring meets remote coding, Eve air taxis

Between late last Sunday night and very early Saturday morning, I clocked more than 10,000 miles in the air to cover Web Summit Rio, conduct an onstage interview at that conference, and see very li…

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US cybersecurity director: The tech ecosystem has ‘become really unsafe’

“We've accepted the fact that cyber safety is my job and your job and the job of my mom and my kid, but we've put the burden on consumers, not on the companies who are best equipped to be able to do something about it.”

#JenEasterly #CISA #CES #CES2023 #security #cybersecurity #infosec #hackers #hacking #technology #tech #business

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-cybersecurity-director-the-tech-ecosystem-has-become-really-unsafe-222118097.html

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In case you missed it, in order to "combat online threats", #JenEasterly on Thursday as the Director of #HomelandSecurity's #CyberSecurity and #Infrastructure Security (#CISA) said at a #BlackHat #Security Conference that #CrowdStrike, #Amazon Web Services, #Google, #Microsoft, #PaloAlto Networks, #FireEye, #ATnT, #Verizon and #Lumen have all agreed to work on a "new initiative".

> Enlists help of #nazis to fight nazis. Terrorists to fight #terrorists.

BigTech is the virus

#imprisonList