"This is the group that if Kim Jong Un wants something done, something done in-house, ‘Hey, we need a missile program, we need to do this,’ Andariel's the one to go out and find the blueprints,” Mandiant's Michael Barnhart told Breaking Defense.
"We're on the defense," Ron Bushar, senior vice president at Mandiant says. "I don't think we've hit a real deterrence level in this space yet. And that's going to be key to thinking through our strategy over the next few years."
As threats evolve, the winning model ties digital engineering to manufacturing capacity and a reindustrialized supply chain.
"It reflects a fundamental shift in our mindset -- from incident response to prevention, from talking about security to doing security," a senior administration official says.
The White House Executive Order comes on the same day that CISA and CNMF issue SolarWinds-related malware analysis and NSA-CISA-FBI issue a joint advisory warning of ongoing SVR exploitation of known vulnerabilities in common products.
The massive hack of federal and private networks isn’t an act of war by any definition, experts agree. It’s a staggering intelligence disaster. So how do we prevent it happening again?
"This is the start of a new day in the Department of Defense where cybersecurity, as we’ve been saying for years is foundational for acquisitions, we’re putting our money where our mouth is. We mean it,” Katie Arrington says.
Partnerships with outside industry are a cornerstone of the kingdom’s ambitious growth strategy.
China is copying malware the NSA has used against them. Is this preventable or is it an inherent weakness of cyber warfare?
Screening Chinese students and academics isn't the solution when less than one percent of them are bad actors. So what will work?
The Vice President joined Mattis, the Centcom chief, and Trump's NATO Ambassador in slamming Russian and Chinese moves. The push comes just before a major White House report takes even more specific aim at China's industrial policies.
As NATO takes unprecedented steps to punish Russia, US Defense Secretary Mattis calls Russian attack in UK "attempted murder."
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
The great challenge for intelligence agencies in the age of Trump was dramatically highlighted this month when a senior South Korean delegation arrived at the White House carrying a secret bombshell message. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un wanted a face-to-face summit with President Donald Trump to discuss Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. Waiting to debrief […]
WASHINGTON: The persistent grumbles from the CIA and other bastions of the Intelligence Community that the Director of National Intelligence is just an unneeded layer of bureaucracy has caught the ear of House Intelligence chairman Rep. Devin Nunes. He promised to try and pass legislation to change this but admitted it would be “tough” to get […]
In Washington, and across the globe, many ask if Russian actions represent a new challenge to international order, and, if so, what is the best course of action to respond to it. Defense Secretary Ash Carter cited Russian military intervention in Ukraine, Georgia, and most recently, Syria in his speech at the Reagan Defense Forum […]
WASHINGTON: Hacks are hard to do damage assessments on. Just ask Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper about the Chinese theft of data from the Office of Personnel Management. “We don’t actually know what was actually exfiltrated,” Clapper told several hundred people at Georgetown University’s Healy Hall today. Why don’t we really know if 5.6 million fingerprints — or […]