1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1163+ words) U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly, Defense Logistics Agency director, visits with service members at Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, in 2024. DoD / Nicholas Pilch The Defense Logistics Agency is piloting AI agents that work autonomously—bots that its CIO calls “digital…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (701+ words) The Pentagon is shifting its cybersecurity posture to rely more on new capabilities to maintain its digital defenses rather than just bolstering its operational manpower, the department’s IT head said on Wednesday. Speaking at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit in Washington,…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (472+ words) Roughly 250 prospective Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency employees have received tentative job offers and are awaiting clearance to start work, acting Director Nick Andersen told reporters Wednesday, the latest update on the cyberdefense agency’s efforts to fill staffing gaps after…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (292+ words) Microsoft is giving select government customers access to an artificial intelligence system designed to find exploitable software flaws, in an effort to bring automated vulnerability hunting into its cloud environment for sensitive government work. The tool, codenamed MDASH, is available…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (679+ words) The Defense Department is expected to release its anticipated cyber strategy early next week, according to three people familiar with the plans for the blueprint that officials argue will more tightly integrate digital operations into U.S. military campaigns. One of the…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (345+ words) I built the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification because self-attestation was failing our war industrial base. Contractors could simply promise they were following basic cybersecurity practices, with no verification behind that promise. Our adversaries noticed that gap long before Washington did…...