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

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

As a leader of critical infrastructure cybersecurity research, ICIT has warned about supply chain security concerns in the past and we have supported initiatives and frameworks like Deliver Uncompromised. This publication will serve as the first in an on-going series focused on supply chain security. Subsequent publications will vary in content from high-level thought leadership to technical analysis. This ICIT publication will discuss the risk posed to devices that rely on t

2nd in the Series of DevSecOps Accelerated ATO As Agencies develop more online services and systems to meet the mission of the Government, their appetite and need to develop and deploy applications rapidly continues to grow. Many Agencies are embracing DevSecOps and cloud services as a way to release these applications quickly; however, the need to meet compliance standards (i.e. RMF, STIG, FISMA, HIPAA, etc.) to obtain their Authority to Operate (ATO) can slow down the proce

This project researches how to maintain election integrity amid new norms such as social distancing. Additionally, since voter turnout is higher for presidential elections, our current health crisis complicates our electoral system. Furthermore, a greater percentage of Americans historically vote in-person on election day. The questions guiding this research study are the following: Has voting in America ever been postponed? Has global voting ever been prevented due to unprec

Panelists Include: Benjamin Hovland – Chairman, U.S. Election Assistance Commission Jennifer Morrell – Partner, The Elections Group Mike Hettinger – Founding Principal, Hettinger Strategy Group LLC Blair Campbell – Masters Student, Villanova University Tom Suder – CEO, ATARC Parham Eftekhari – Co-Founder and Chairman, ICIT Joe Marks – (Moderator) Staff Writer, Washington Post Ensuring the integrity of a free election process is a sacred task in the United States. It invo

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

Watch Video Panelists Include: Dr. Ron Ross, Fellow, NIST & 2019 ICIT Pioneer Tim Anderson, ICIT Contributor & Sr. Security Advisor, AWS Jeff Hsiao, ICIT Contributor & Security Solutions Engineer, Checkmarx Parham Eftekhari, Board Chair, ICIT & Executive Director, The Cybersecurity Collaborative Joyce Hunter, Executive Director, ICIT & Former Deputy CIO for Policy and Planning, USDA The need for increasing levels of software security is becoming even more apparent as organi

Previously, cyberattacks resulting in the targeted disruption of electricity to a geographic region were either hypothetical or featured sophisticated malware, such as Black Energy. Now, digital adversaries are adapting their tools, tactics, and procedures to threaten critical energy sector operational technology (OT) with less sophisticated, commercially available malware such as ransomware. In September 2019, ICIT and Forescout published a whitepaper, The Rise of Disruption

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