Jacob Livesay
Reporter at Inside Cybersecurity
Reporter at Inside Washington Publishers
Georgetown ‘23, he/him
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6 days ago |
insidecybersecurity.com | Jacob Livesay
Plans to reorganize the State Department would roll back work achieved over the past three years to centralize cross-sector cybersecurity work under a single bureau, according to Annie Fixler of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who recently testified at a House hearing on the subject. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s reorganization plan “goes against what Congress specifically did, which was integrate those components together,” Fixler told Inside Cybersecurity.
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6 days ago |
insidecybersecurity.com | Jacob Livesay
Daily News A recent report from the Health Sector Coordinating Council urges CISA to play a role in working with state-level insurance regulators to encourage cyber insurance provider implementation of incentives for organizations leveraging security best practices.
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1 week ago |
insidecybersecurity.com | Jacob Livesay
CISA is continuing to focus on its critical infrastructure mission in a new guide on safeguarding operational technology and industrial control systems against cyber attacks, published in partnership with the FBI and the Energy Department. CISA, FBI and DOE “are aware of cyber incidents affecting the operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) of critical infrastructure entities in the United States,” according to a May 6 fact sheet.
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1 week ago |
insidecybersecurity.com | Jacob Livesay
Daily News A recent case study from the Cyber Readiness Institute highlights progress in a pilot program to help the water sector beef up its network security and incident preparation, demonstrating how individual engagement raised the bar at a rural utility in Texas. CRI launched the pilot program in collaboration with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Microsoft and published results from their first phase of efforts in December 2024.
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1 week ago |
insidecybersecurity.com | Jacob Livesay
Private sector entities around the world need to make cybersecurity a bigger priority to match the pace of increasingly sophisticated threats to their networks, according to an annual report from Cisco. “The 2025 edition of this study shows that readiness remained flat from 2024,” Cisco says in its cyber readiness report published today.
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