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GAO: Pentagon's Cyber Hygiene Programs Come Up Short

Data Breach Today

Audit Finds DoD Would Benefit From Better Security Training The U.S. Defense Department needs to improve its cybersecurity training programs for civilian and military employees to reduce the risks that common security incidents pose, a new audit from the Government Accountability Office finds.

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Biden AI Order Enables Agencies to Address Key Risks

Hunton Privacy

It marks the Biden Administration’s most comprehensive action on artificial intelligence policy, building upon the Administration’s Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (issued in October 2022) and its announcement (in July 2023) of securing voluntary commitments from 15 leading AI companies to manage AI risks. New standards.

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GUEST ESSAY: Rising global tensions put us a few lines of code away from a significant cyber event

The Last Watchdog

This growing environment of risks and increasingly aggressive adversaries demand our readiness, yet our national response continues to be largely reactive to threat conditions. Cyber threats endanger businesses and individuals — they can affect supply chains, cause power grid failures, and much more.

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Episode 256: Recursive Pollution? Data Feudalism? Gary McGraw On LLM Insecurity

The Security Ledger

Paul speaks with Gary McGraw of the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning (BIML), about the risks facing large language model machine learning and artificial intelligence, and how organizations looking to leverage artificial intelligence and LLMs can insulate themselves from those risks. The post Episode 256: Recursive Pollution?

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM): Manages compliance, risk, and security with controlled user, system, and app cloud resource access. Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) management: Aligns security goals with business goals and regulatory requirements that apply to the data or the organization.

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News Alert: ThriveDX’s Cyber Academy for Enterprise meets addresses talent shortage, promotes inclusion

The Last Watchdog

June 20, 2023 – ThriveDX , the leader in cybersecurity and digital skills training, today announced the official launch of its new Cyber Academy for Enterprise. Holistic training The academy offers a holistic training experience, with rigorous learning supplemented with access to virtualized cyber labs and challenges.

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Vulnerabilities in Weapons Systems

Schneier on Security

Our military systems are vulnerable. We need to face that reality by halting the purchase of insecure weapons and support systems and by incorporating the realities of offensive cyberattacks into our military planning. Over the past decade, militaries have established cyber commands and developed cyberwar doctrine.

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