"Let’s protect not just the systems, but the people and principles that make those systems worth defending.
Because the most significant vulnerability we face isn’t a zero-day vulnerability in our software, it’s a zero-day vulnerability in our civic integrity.
And the patch requires all of us."
/by #JenEasterly
/via @zackwhittaker
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-we-really-securing-jen-easterly-auyae/
I'm going to miss Jen Easterly when she leaves CISA. She got it and recommended actual root cause solutions (i.e. stop using memory-unsafe programming languages) instead of shilling for more vendor "solutions".
https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/18/cisa-director-jen-easterly-to-depart-agency-on-january-20/
‘I don’t see it happening’: CISA chief dismisses ban on ransomware payments
“I do think we’ve made a difference, but I don’t think we’re going to make ransomware a shocking anomaly without successful implementation of a Secure-by-Design campaign”
#CISA #JenEasterly #ransomware #malware #security #cybersecurity #hackers #hacking
https://therecord.media/cisa-easterly-dismisses-ban-on-ransomware-payments
This week featured vastly less travel than last week, but it also afforded me the rare experience of hearing an executive-branch appointee burst into song. And at the end of it, I carved out some time to write a post for Patreon readers about how certain PR pitches come with either a request or a stipulation that I cover the subject for a particular outlet.
4/23/2024: T-Mobile Adds New Fixed Wireless Plans: One for Home, One for the Road, PCMag
Of all of T-Mobile’s announcements Tuesday, the unlimited-data version of its new Away fixed-wireless plan was easily the most interesting.
4/23/2024: FTC Votes to Ban Non-Compete Clauses, PCMag
I wrote an update to the post I’d filed more than a year earlier when the Federal Trade Commission had started this rule-making process, explaining the particulars of the new FTC rule and noting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s plans to sue to overturn this ban.
4/25/2024: Feds Try Breaking Out Into Song to Get People to Take Ransomware Seriously, PCMag
I spent Wednesday at a conference in Washington hosted by the Institute for Security and Technology, then wrote this recap Thursday that led off with Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly singing a bit from an upcoming remake of Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Just A Bill.”
4/27/2024: Ep 99 SmartTechCheck Podcast – TikTok, smartphones and children, FCC broadband labels mandate, Mark Vena
I joined my tech-analyst friend’s podcast to discuss the new law requiring TikTok owner ByteDance to sell that social platform, the FCC’s broadband-labels regulation, how harmful smartphones might be to kids, and other tech topics.
Updated 5/5/2024 to add a link to the Patreon post.
#cybersecurity #fixedWireless #FTCNonCompeteBan #informationSecurity #infosec #JenEasterly #MarkVena #nonCompeteClauses #ransomware #SchoolhouseRock #TMobile #TMobileHome5G #TMobileHomeInternet
US cybersecurity director: The tech ecosystem has ‘become really unsafe’
“We've accepted the fact that cyber safety is my job and your job and the job of my mom and my kid, but we've put the burden on consumers, not on the companies who are best equipped to be able to do something about it.”
#JenEasterly #CISA #CES #CES2023 #security #cybersecurity #infosec #hackers #hacking #technology #tech #business
In case you missed it, in order to "combat online threats", #JenEasterly on Thursday as the Director of #HomelandSecurity's #CyberSecurity and #Infrastructure Security (#CISA) said at a #BlackHat #Security Conference that #CrowdStrike, #Amazon Web Services, #Google, #Microsoft, #PaloAlto Networks, #FireEye, #ATnT, #Verizon and #Lumen have all agreed to work on a "new initiative".
> Enlists help of #nazis to fight nazis. Terrorists to fight #terrorists.
BigTech is the virus
