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

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