Tag: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Borderline
May 14, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
This week in Monitoring Matters, we look at all the money flowing through the border, namely out of our pockets and toward the border.
That’s right, President Trump’s recently released discretionary budget has no room for science, art, or education, but a blank check for so called border security enforcement. Towards which end the administration has called for 20,000 new ICE agents who, according to current events, don’t answer to the courts.
To say the situation...
Discretionary budget seeks to eliminate CISA group, shift funds to border
May 12, 2025SSN Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration's relentless assault on purported waste spending is looking to curtail the efforts of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) with its recently proposed 2025 discretionary budget.
In a statement released on May 2, 2025, the White House declared that its budget would reduce non-defense discretionary spending by $163 billion, shifting those funds to defense and border security, as well as support for air and rail safety. On...
CISA desist
April 30, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
The current U.S. administration’s fixation on the dismantling of public agencies has set its sights on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and it couldn’t be at a worse time.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s oversight at the agency recently has painted a bleak picture of the future of the CISA, and all signs point to yet another tombstone on Capitol Hill in the name of “Returning money to taxpayers.” If you think any of that...
SIA announces agenda for 2025 SIA GovSummit
March 20, 2025SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced details for the 2025 SIA GovSummit, SIA’s annual public policy and government security technology conference. SIA GovSummit 2025 will be held May 20-21 in downtown Washington, D.C.
Each year, SIA GovSummit brings together government security leaders with private industry technologists for top-quality information sharing and education on security topics affecting federal, state and local agencies.
The...
DHS CISA releases AI roadmap
November 17, 2023SSN Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released its first Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Following an executive order issued by President Biden in October, the DHS has promoted the adoption of AI safety standards globally, protected U.S. networks and critical infrastructure, reduced the risks that AI can be used to create weapons of mass destruction, combatted AI-related intellectual...
SIA names Brian Harrell as 2023 SIA Insightful Practitioner Award honoree
October 11, 2023SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Brian M. Harrell as the 2023 recipient of the SIA Insightful Practitioner Award, an honor recognizing excellence in promoting the implementation of innovative security solutions.
SIA will present Harrell with the award on Wednesday, Nov. 15, during the 2023 SIA Honors Night reception.
Harrell serves as vice president and chief security officer at Avangrid, an energy company with assets and...
CISA celebrates 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Awareness Month
September 28, 2023SSN Staff
WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the kickoff of the 20th Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Throughout October, both CISA and the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) will focus on ways to “Secure Our World” by educating the public on how to stay safe online. “Secure Our World” will also be the enduring theme for throughout the year with the campaign aiming to drive behavioral change around core cybersecurity habits and...
Pledge drive
September 6, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
This week the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the Secure by Design pledge for K-12 education technology providers in order to shore up cyber defenses in the classroom.
This caught my attention for a couple of reasons. One is that this is just another of several similar proposals I’ve seen issued lately, I think this is the second one from the CISA? I know that I’ve talked to a few CEO’s who take these pledge’s seriously, or at the very...
CISA releases Cybersecurity Strategic Plan
August 4, 2023SSN Staff
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the White House’s March release of the National Cybersecurity Strategy, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released its Cybersecurity Strategic Plan.
“We know that connected technologies underpin every aspect of our lives, our businesses, our communities, our families, often in ways that allow us to be more connected, productive, efficient than ever before,” CISA wrote in its official release. “But malicious...
CISA conducts exercises with Washington Commanders to keep fans & athletes safe
July 27, 2023SSN Staff
LANDOVER, Md. – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently partnered with the Washington Commanders earlier this month to test response plans around hypothetical public safety incidents.
Working together they held the tabletop exercise which is the latest in a series of assessments and exercises designed to ensure the safety of events at FedExField. It brought together private sector partners and federal, state, and local first responders to discuss pre-incident...