America is defined from its “Melting Pot” shared culture forged from diverse backgrounds, ideologies, and people. America's diversity defines its strength and makes it unique in the great-power competition of the global stage. Conflicts in cyberspace and cyber-physical boundaries jeopardize national security and stability and the U.S. is at an asymmetric disadvantage against digital adversaries of all categories of sophistication, from nation-state sponsored advanced persiste

By Joyce Hunter, Executive Director, ICIT 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 has embarked on a journey to hold candid interviews with some of the brightest minds in national security, cybersecurity, and technology. Our goal is to share their knowledge and insigh

Each quarter, a selection of ICIT Fellows gather to discuss their perspectives on a timely cybersecurity topic pertinent to critical infrastructure resiliency and national security. The full ICIT Fellows' Insights Roundtable video is featured below. The conversation topic and questions are based on questions solicited from the ICIT community and we hope that the Fellows' Insights prove informative, actionable, and meaningful. As with all ICIT content, the entirety of the disc

CIT Certified Content: The 2021 Devo SOC Performance Report™ shows that security operations centers — and those who work in them — continue to have a number of challenges to overcome. Based on an independent survey of global cybersecurity professionals, our third annual report examines current trends for those who lead and work in SOCs. While there are some indicators of slight improvement, it’s clear that for too many people, working in the SOC remains painful. The 2020 surv

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

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

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