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New Law Is an Opportunity To Grow Cyber Experience

Workforce program will allow federal employees to advance cyber skills through rotational positions.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas participates in the White House Cyber Education Workforce Summit in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., in July. With the passage of a recent federal law, the DHS is managing a new cyber workforce program across the federal government. DHS Photo by Benjamin Applebaum

Three Cool Things To Know Before Becoming an Army Cyber Warrior

The most powerful fighting force in the world needs you, cyber geeks, to become the leaders of the future.

Soldiers participate in a multiservice ‘NetWar’ exercise to show and build cyber warrior capabilities at the U.S. Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, in 2014. Photo courtesy U.S. Army National Guard

How Agencies Can Defend Against Killware

A new threat emerges that needs to be addressed by the military community.

NIST Chooses Quantum Encryption Algorithms

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) chose encryption tools that will become part of the upcoming protocols to protect activities such as online banking and email.

Quantum computers offer the promise to solve complex problems current devices can’t achieve; nevertheless, they also pose a threat to cybersecurity. Credit: Shutterstock/Yurchanka Siarhei

On Point: Q&A With Raj Iyer

Q&A with Raj Iyer, Army chief information officer, who advises the secretary of the Army, setting the strategic direction and objectives for information technology and information management.

Identifying Shared Vulnerabilities and Mitigation Strategies for Cloud, Wireless and IoT

Considering common characteristics could be key to effective security.

Access control vulnerabilities for cloud, wireless and IoT include sensitive data exposure, missing function-level access control, weak encryption and lack of auditing to review physical/logical access. Shutterstock/Andrew Suslov

Adversarial Machine Learning Poses a New Threat to National Security

A rapidly growing field of technology holds significant implications for U.S. military.

Threat Tracker is an autonomous threat detection system developed by a small team of engineers and scientists within Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division’s Coastal and Maritime Security branch. Integrated with an advanced unmanned surface vehicle, this system can provide a fully autonomous USV escort capable of detecting and stopping a wide variety of threats. (U.S. Navy graphic)

Securing Machine Learning Requires a Sociotechnical Approach

Considering AI interactions with humans, organizational structures and strategies may help defenders mitigate risks.

Operationalizing secure machine learning starts at the human level. Shutterstock/Gorodenkoff

Soldiers Supply Secure Software Solutions

The Army software factory begins with security.

Soldiers conduct preventive maintenance checks on an AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter during training at the Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany. Army photo by Spc. Nathanael Mercado

Experts Highlight Continued Software Vulnerabilities

National security and cyber experts see a huge problem with chronic cyber issues for widely used programs.

Cyber and national security experts are quite alarmed with the systemic cybersecurity vulnerabilities of Microsoft Corp’s products, the company’s dependence on China for product revenue and associated consolations to the Chinese government, as well as the U.S. government’s incredible reliance on the Microsoft products across its agencies. Credit: Shutterstock/The Art of Pics