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Cybersecurity
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (1465+ words) In this edition, we examine the impact artificial intelligence is having on the cybersecurity industry both now and into the future. Cybersecurity is becoming more sophisticated as artificial intelligence enables advanced defenses that can respond in a fraction of the…...
Defense: Can the House GOP pass a FISA extension?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (158+ words) Senior Trump administration officials briefed House lawmakers on a key expiring surveillance authority on Wednesday, as leading Republicans coalesce behind the White House's push for a clean extension of the program. The chairs of the Intelligence and Judiciary committees have…...
Defense: Fallon to make Cyber Force pitch
2+ week, 4+ day ago (161+ words) One House GOP defense hawk is preparing to make a public case for the creation of a seventh military branch dedicated to cyber warfare. It's the opening salvo of what will likely become a broader legislative battle in the coming…...
Defense: Lee wary of combining FISA with SAVE
3+ week, 22+ hour ago (150+ words) Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) isn't sold on using the reauthorization fight over a key spy authority to pass the SAVE America Act, a tactic championed by some ardent House supporters." Lee wants significant changes to that surveillance program, Section 702 of…...
The White House’s heavy FISA lift
3+ week, 2+ day ago (526+ words) Competing factions of lawmakers'are'sure to make the Trump administration's push to renew a lapsing spy authority a herculean lift for party leaders in both chambers. Section 702'of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has long been a contentious issue that cuts…...
Defense: Key DOD nominee back on confirmation track
3+ week, 4+ day ago (196+ words) The Senate is taking its first steps to confirm President Donald Trump's pick to lead U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency over objections from a top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee." Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd is slated to clear…...
Luna says she’ll push SAVE Act in FISA renewal
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (353+ words) Rep. Anna Paulina Luna(R-Fla.) finds herself in the middle of everything these days. Earlier this Congress, the two-term lawmaker pushed to allow remote voting for new mothers in Congress. And Luna is also leading an effort to ban stock…...
Tech: A CISA expiration is now more likely
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (450+ words) Tech: A CISA expiration is now more likely'Punchbowl News Corporate America is once again staring at the possibility that liability protections for sharing cyber threat data with the federal government are going away, at least temporarily. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing…...
Tech: The CISA problem that won’t go away
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (208+ words) Congress is moving to extend a key cybersecurity law through the end of the fiscal year as Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blocks a long-term renewal." Appropriators included an extension to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act in…...
Tech: Congress amps up work on AVs
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (128+ words) Congress amps up work on AVs'Punchbowl News We dealwith a lot of tech you can't see " airwaves, chips tucked away in data centers or the algorithms underlying artificial intelligence and social media. But our worldis increasingly full of tech that's…...