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How CISA limited the impact of the SolarWinds attack

Matt Hartman, the deputy executive assistant director for cyber at CISA, said without EINSTEIN, there may be departments today that still did not know…

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Initial IT policy goals come out in ‘skinny’ 2020 budget request

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Sen. Tom Carper: Agencies need the help of Einstein to prevent cyber breaches

The Office of Personnel Management cyber breaches are pushing the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to encourage agencies to…

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Cyber attack against OPM was 1 of 9 DHS recently discovered targeting ‘bulk PII’

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team released in May an analysis report detailing nine incidents between July 2014 and May 2015 where hackers stole…

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DHS says cyber initiatives healthy and growing

Andy Ozment, assistant secretary of the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications in DHS, said the CDM, Einstein and Enhance Cybersecurity Services programs are on the upswing in terms of impact and number of users. Ozment said there are no delays with CDM, and the Einstein intrusion detection and prevention software covers 25 percent of all federal employees.

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