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News alert: MxD roundtable with White House officials highlights cybersecurity workforce needs

The Last Watchdog

21, 2023 — MxD, the Digital Manufacturing and Cybersecurity Institute, today hosted a roundtable discussion with the White House Office of the National Cyber Director. Each participating organization is committed to developing cyber skills and programs to train the workforce across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing.

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MY TAKE: New tech standards, like ‘Matter’ and ‘BIMI,’ point the way to secure interoperability

The Last Watchdog

This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago. It’s important that as consumers are shopping for these smart home devices that they learn to recognize the Matter trademark so that they can make educated decisions.”

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The IoT Cybersecurity Act of 2020: Implications for Devices

eSecurity Planet

” And there it is for IoT vendors at-large; this regulation isn’t just about meeting the government contractor standard. After all, the benefit is to market your IoT product line as meeting federal compliance guidelines for security. Guidance for Manufacturers. Security standards will likely grow for all IoT devices.

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Apprenticeship Stories: Lavinia Bentley

CILIP

A registered charity with the following mission statement: “Our purpose is to establish, maintain and promote for the benefit of the nation, the permanent preservation of historic archives, artefacts and motor vehicles manufactured and sold by Jaguar Cars Ltd. now renamed Jaguar Land Rover Ltd.) My position was Archive Apprentice.

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City of Dallas shut down IT services after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. City of Dallas An image of the ransomware note received by the City of Dallas. Source J.D. reads the alert.

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City of Dallas has set a budget of $8.5 million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack

Security Affairs

MILES/CBS NEWS TEXAS The Royal ransomware group is behind the attack and threatens to publish stolen data if the City will not meet its ransom demand. City of Dallas An image of the ransomware note received by the City of Dallas J.D. million to mitigate the May Royal ransomware attack appeared first on Security Affairs.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

Enforcement ICO gives UK’s top websites 30 days to meet cookie requirements The Information Commissioner has issued a statement, threatening enforcement action to the companies running the UK’s most-visited websites unless it meets its legal requirements on cookies within 30 days. The updated data point is italicised in the table.