April 27, 2025
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The annual RSA conference in San Francisco will navigate cyber regulations, artificial intelligence and the current threat landscape, during a busy week where uncertainty over the Trump administration’s next steps will loom large.
House Oversight cyber subcommittee Chair Nancy Mace (R-SC) and full committee ranking member Gerry Connolly (D-VA) have reintroduced a bipartisan bill to reauthorize and modify the Technology Modernization Fund with a focus on improving program administration and inventorying outdated federal IT that presents a target for cyber attackers.
The effective shutdown of DHS’ Cyber Safety Review Board has created an unacceptable gap with no government entity adequately looking into the high-profile Salt Typhoon campaign, according to former CSRB member Jamil Jaffer of the National Security Institute.
Microsoft has issued the latest update on what it describes as “the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history,” an initiative launched shortly after the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online intrusion, with the company claiming progress across the board including on zero trust implementation, red-teaming operations and enforcement of security standards.
Data security requirements placed on industry should be performance-based and provide flexibility for managing risks in alignment with widely used standards, according to an industry coalition that submitted comments to a House GOP working group on privacy legislation.
House Intelligence ranking member Jim Himes (D-CT) sees the potential to boost sharing of actionable cyber information on sophisticated threats by exploring how reporting requirements could be included in the reauthorization of a high-profile 2015 cybersecurity information sharing law.
The House Oversight cyber and IT subcommittee has announced a hearing to discuss government information technology modernization, with a likely focus on cybersecurity and government uses of AI, including the efforts of the U.S. DOGE Service led by Elon Musk.