Tag: cyber resilience
US and UK call time on Silicon Valley
A clarion call has gone out on both sides of the Atlantic for digital technologies to be made secure by design rather than by default. At San Francisco’s RSA cyber conference earlier this month, Jen Easterly, the director of CISA, the US Cyber Defense Agency, called for software to be made far more secure. This week, Ollie Whitehouse, the CTO of the NCSC, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, also echoed her thoughts, demanding that the technology industry make its products more cyber-secure from the start.
Corruption allegations overshadow EU cyber rulings
The European Union (EU) has adopted its first Cybersecurity Certificate scheme to boost cybersecurity in products and services sold within the EU states, amid ongoing investigations of alleged corruption in Brussels. The European Cybersecurity Scheme on Common Criteria (EUCC) drafted by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) was adopted on Wednesday as the first scheme within the EU cybersecurity certification framework. ENISA is also already developing two additional cybersecurity certification schemes: EUCS on cloud services and EU5G on 5G security. But the announcement coincided with another press release published by the EU on the same day. On Wednesday, Jan 31st, 2024, the Committee on Civil Liberties also endorsed the draft negotiating mandate for stronger rules against corrupt decision-makers across all levels in the EU. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) amended the draft anti-corruption provisions to cover “any person entrusted with tasks of public interest or in charge of a public service”, with top EU decision-makers, European Commissioners, the President of the European Council and MEPs to be added to the category of “high-level officials” who will now be subjected to more severe rules than in the past.
US Government Launches “Shields Ready” Cyber Resilience Campaign – November 9th
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) launched the "Shields Ready" cybersecurity campaign to promote critical national infrastructure (CNI). The "Shields Ready" campaign will tackle CNI by establishing focused strategic strategies to protect organizations from potential disruption, and by building cyber-resilient systems.