PRIMER to ICIT VIRTUAL BRIEFING With prolific security breaches such as SolarWinds dominating the news, organizations are daunted by the fear that they could be made infamous in the next major breach. Developing a mature and tightly connected security framework that enables the reduction of risk and improves security capabilities is more critical than ever. While 2020 was fraught with tragic outcomes of social and economic proportions, security teams have learned many lessons

President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity calls for ambitious cybersecurity reform across the federal space in response to recent incidents such as the attacks against SolarWinds and the Colonial Pipeline. The Key tenets of the Executive Order include: Threat Information Sharing Cyber Incident Reporting Enhancing Software Supply Chain Security Modernizing Federal Government Cybersecurity Establishing a Cyber Safety Review Board Standardizing t

Moving applications and development to the cloud has delivered both operational and security benefits at scale. However, as organizations begin to automate their infrastructure deployments and configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), a new attack vector has been introduced. In addition, the move to cloud-native architectures increases the use of APIs connecting client applications to cloud hosted, microservices based solutions, introducing another new entry point f

In continued support of our mission to cultivate a cybersecurity renaissance that will improve the resiliency of our nation’s 16 critical infrastructure sectors, defend our democratic institutions, and empower generations of cybersecurity leaders, ICIT asked some of the brightest minds in national security, cybersecurity, and technology to author essays communicating their perspective. Our goal is to share their knowledge and insights with our community to shed light on solut

In 2019, securely operating a distributed workforce was an ideal “wouldn’t it be great if,” and in 2020, this became a requirement. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity teams found themselves frantically working to continue business operations in a suddenly perimeter-less environment. And that trend is likely here to stay, which means that cybersecurity and business leaders need to understand how the zero trust principles changed in the remote working world? An

The potential impacts of the SolarWinds breach on public and private sector stakeholders have been the subjects of major research publications and media coverage since December 2020. However, SolarWinds was just the most recent in a long line of infamous cybersecurity breaches ranging from OPM to Equifax, all of which resulted from an adversary’s lateral compromise through the vendor supply chain. The Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act of 2021 proposed by Representative

In continued support of our mission to cultivate a cybersecurity renaissance that will improve the resiliency of our nation’s 16 critical infrastructure sectors, defend our democratic institutions, and empower generations of cybersecurity leaders, ICIT asked some of the brightest minds in national security, cybersecurity, and technology to author essays communicating their perspective. Our goal is to share their knowledge and insights with our community to shed light on solut

SPEAKERS: • Kendra Charbonneau – Lead Engineer and Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach, USAF Business Enterprise Systems • Rajive Mathur – Former Chief Information Officer, Social Security Administration • Moderator: Nick Sinai – Senior Advisor, Insight Partners, Harvard Kennedy School, Obama White House (former US Deputy CTO) • Joyce Hunter - Executive Director, ICIT & Former Deputy CIO for Policy and Planning, USDA The transition to Agile development is complex and challe

The unprecedented worldwide crisis spawned by the recent and continuing healthcare challenges makes leading more challenging than ever. Executives face the stress and consequences of a pandemic on top of the tumult of an unsettled marketplace and civil unrest. The concepts and tools of meta-leadership help those leaders reframe adversity. The secrets to success are communication, coordination, and collaboration. It is an opportunity for building enduring transformational chan

According to the 2020 Verizon DBIR , (Data Breach Investigations Report) there were 3,950 confirmed breaches in 2020. The onset of the COVID pandemic resulted in a drastic increase in exploitable vulnerabilities, phishing attempts, ransomware campaigns, and remote compromise attempts. Nevertheless, an estimated 40% of organizations did not have a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that leveraged technical and non-technical controls to secure their networks and assets and pr

Crises and disasters are regular occurrences in organizational life, putting leaders into the spotlight and organizations under tremendous pressure to respond appropriately — whether it is to preserve life or salvage reputations. Hearing how three of our public leaders responsible for communications and connectivity, ensuring small business security and sustainability, and developing metrics-driven performance. At the ICIT Fall 2020 briefing, Louis Dorsey, Senior Director for

The challenge for leaders is to deploy influence, often beyond their formal authority, to foster unity of purpose and effort. The secrets to success are communication, coordination, and collaboration.At the ICIT 2020 Virtual Fall briefing: A Secure Roadmap for the Future, Scott Sloan, the Veritas Senior Director of Pre-Sales Engineering, interviewed Colonel Bobby Saxon, Ret. who is the Deputy CIO at the Office of Information Technology Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service