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Biden Cybersecurity Strategy: Big Ambitions, Big Obstacles

eSecurity Planet

The White House’s National Cybersecurity Strategy unveiled yesterday is an ambitious blueprint for improving U.S. These efforts may integrate diplomatic, information, military (both kinetic and cyber), financial, intelligence, and law enforcement capabilities.”

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MY TAKE: COVID-19 cements the leadership role CISOs must take to secure company networks

The Last Watchdog

The occasion for our meeting was the opening of Infosys’ Cyber Defense Center (CDC), in Indianapolis. Beyond just understanding the technical aspect of cybersecurity, CISOs also need leadership qualities and influencing skills; they need to be able to articulate a vision, a mission, a strategy. billion, with $7.8 None of this is easy.”

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Unprecedented cyber attack hit State Infrastructure of Montenegro

Security Affairs

At the time, Hackers targeted Montenegro with spear phishing attacks, the malicious messages used weaponized documents pertaining to a NATO secretary meeting and a visit by a European army unit to Montenegro. Peach said that the NATO alliance had set up the first NATO counter-hybrid team in Montenegro.

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MY TAKE: Michigan’s cybersecurity readiness initiatives provide roadmap others should follow

The Last Watchdog

My reporting trip included meetings with Michigan-based cybersecurity vendors pursuing leading-edge innovations, as well as a tour of a number of thriving public-private cybersecurity incubator and training programs. I had the chance to meet briefly with two-term Gov. They answered, yes. Shoring up weak links. College students, U.S.

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NATO will send a counter-hybrid team to Montenegro to face Russia’s threat

Security Affairs

The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee announced that the alliance has sent a counter-hybrid team to Montenegro to face Russian hybrid attacks. Last week in Brussels, the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (MC), Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, announced the effort of the Alliance in facing Russian hybrid attacks.

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NATO Chief calls for a new strategic to address new challenges

Security Affairs

The new strategy has to replace the one developed a decade ago by the Atlantic alliance. “We see a much more assertive Russia than we did in 2010, with illegal annexation of Crimea destabilising eastern Ukraine, the military build-up. That’s the only way we can stand together and meet all the challenges we see in the future.”

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FBI is helping Montenegro in investigating the ongoing cyberattack

Security Affairs

At the time, Hackers targeted Montenegro with spear phishing attacks, the malicious messages used weaponized documents pertaining to a NATO secretary meeting and a visit by a European army unit to Montenegro. Peach said that the NATO alliance had set up the first NATO counter-hybrid team in Montenegro.