Inside Cybersecurity

Daily News Hudson Institute senior fellow David Feith urged House Intelligence Committee members at a recent hearing to consider data centers as a major cybersecurity target for adversaries including China, as policymakers survey the threat landscape -- and the implications of artificial intelligence -- 25 years after the 9/11 attacks.

Daily News The Institute for Security and Technology is starting a 100-day sprint through a multistakeholder process to produce a policy framework and guidance targeted critical services who lack funding to invest cybersecurity, with a focus on artificial intelligence-enabled threats to operational technology systems.

Daily News Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) is asking the National Security Agency to update 2021 guidance on virtual private network configurations to include considerations to route internet traffic through multiple servers, as part of an effort to address increasing surveillance threats from foreign adversaries.

Daily News The G7 Cybersecurity Working Group is urging countries to prioritize the transition to post-quantum cryptography in a call to action with five areas of focus, as threats continue to grow from the looming launch of cryptographically relevant quantum computers. “We, the G7 Cybersecurity Working Group, recognize the growing threat that quantum computing poses to public-key cryptography, and the security of both public and private organizations,” according to the Sept. 3 call to action.

Daily News The Internet Security Alliance called on policymakers to address risks from the increased adoption of agentic artificial intelligence models across critical infrastructure, in a congressional briefing detailing findings from a cross-sector study on AI deployment. “Adoption is outrunning governance in every sector, including the most capable ones.

Daily News The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with the FBI and U.S. partners in the “Five Eyes” cyber intelligence alliance, has issued guidance on “crisis messaging” during technology outages caused by cyber attacks or other factors. The nine-page guidance document, “Communicating Under Pressure: Best Practices for Service Providers,” was issued Sept.

Daily News Congress should examine options to establish an enterprise-wide counterintelligence organization in the U.S. government in order to address the modern cyber threat environment, according to stakeholders testifying at an open hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on national security threats. “Today, we ask whether our government architecture is appropriate to respond to this new environment, and how we can, and must, keep pace.

Daily News The Center for a New American Security says outpacing China in the race for artificial general intelligence is so important that the United States should be ready to steal Chinese technology in order to catch up, if Beijing is first to achieve game-changing AGI breakthroughs. “Prepare to reverse engineer or steal AGI technology if China gets it first.

Daily News National security practitioners are calling for broad mandates to establish guardrails for artificial intelligence technologies, despite reporting low confidence in the ability of government institutions to implement them, according to a new report from the Institute for Security and Technology.

Daily News House Homeland Security ranking member Bennie Thompson (D-MS) is calling on the committee’s Republican leadership to hold a hearing addressing increased threats to the homeland, with an emphasis on cyber threats from Iran-affiliated actors. “As we approach the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks, I write to urge you to convene a hearing on worldwide threats to the homeland -- consistent with the Committee’s longstanding practice,” Thompson writes in the Sept.