“This was blatant. It was brazen and, in my mind, it was deliberate. It was a betrayal, and it was as close to treasonous as you can get,” the judge said.
With stakeholders across all levels of government in the United States involved in election security, experts say Washington now needs a designated leader.
As he prepares to leave the National Security Agency, Glenn Gerstell laid out the intelligence community's cybersecurity challenges in the face of emerging technology.
The defensive and espionage missions undertaken by the National Security Agency require efforts from some of the top tech operators in the world, and these operators must come from somewhere. Enter the NSA's partner institutions — designated Centers of Academic Excellence.
Government officials consistently argue that no single agency could take responsibility for the cybersecurity of the federal government. But a Wisconsin senator recently pushed officials to answer the question of who takes the lead for information security.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's director sees an opportunity in partnering with the new Cybersecurity Directorate at the National Security Agency to defend critical US infrastructure.
The arrest of a contractor for the National Security Agency followed news of a devastating disclosure of government hacking tools by a mysterious internet group calling itself the Shadow Brokers.