Sara Friedman

Washington, D.C.

Managing Editor at Inside Cybersecurity

Managing Editor @InsideCyber, covering cyber and supply chain policy. Email: [email protected]

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Former ONCD official Leiserson outlines approach for government to backstop cyber insurance through legislation

1 week ago | insidecybersecurity.com | Sara Friedman

Daily News Former Office of the National Cyber Director cyber policy leader Nick Leiserson is making a case for Congress taking action to backstop cyber insurance through the reauthorization of a program created for terrorism purposes, in a recent memo published by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “The cyber insurance market has exploded over the past 20 years. Total written premium is over $14 billion globally, the majority of which is in the United States.
FCC security advisory group recommends best practices for integrating AI into telecom systems

1 week ago | insidecybersecurity.com | Sara Friedman

Daily News An influential advisory council for the Federal Communications Commission has released a report reviewing security considerations for integrating artificial intelligence into telecom systems through exploring use cases and opportunities to implement best practices. “While AI has great potential to contribute to network protection, it also can introduce new attack surfaces.
NIST seeks comment on initial implementation of NCCoE chatbot detailed in draft publication

1 week ago | insidecybersecurity.com | Sara Friedman

The National Institute of Standards and Technology details its efforts to create a chatbot to support the work of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in a new draft publication. “The NCCoE identified a potential application for a chatbot to support its mission and developed a secure, internal-use chatbot to assist NCCoE staff with discovering and summarizing cybersecurity guidelines tailored to specific audiences or use cases,” NIST says in a June 18 announcement on the draft.
NIST releases draft white paper outlining security principles for 5G networks

1 week ago | insidecybersecurity.com | Sara Friedman

Daily News The latest white paper in a NIST series on cyber capabilities of 5G systems outlines a proposed approach to network security utilizing into design principles. “This white paper describes the network infrastructure design principles that commercial and private 5G network operators are encouraged to use to improve cybersecurity and privacy.
Lawmakers raise surveillance issues to Palantir over creation of ‘mega-database’ containing sensitive information from American citizens

1 week ago | insidecybersecurity.com | Sara Friedman

Daily News Senate Finance ranking member Ron Wyden (D-OR) is asking Palantir to provide details based on media reports of the tech firm working with the Internal Revenue Service to build a “mega-database” of sensitive data of American citizens that is searchable.
Security leader Clinton pushes back on cyber regulatory harmonization in favor of finding ‘redundancies’ to drive efficiencies

1 week ago | insidecybersecurity.com | Sara Friedman

Daily News Larry Clinton, head of the Internet Security Alliance, identifies three challenges to cyber regulatory harmonization in a new posting, where he argues that the focus should be on finding “redundancies” to promote more efficiencies. “The core reason cybersecurity regulatory harmonization won’t work is that it doesn’t promise to improve the effectiveness of our regulations.
GOP nominee Trusty confirmed for FCC seat by a divided Senate

1 week ago | insideaipolicy.com | Sara Friedman

The Senate has confirmed on a 53-45 vote the nomination of Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, filling a critical Republican vacancy to advance the agenda of Chairman Brendan Carr. Trusty was nominated in January following the departure of former President Biden’s FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel. The Senate vote on June 17 was along party lines except for Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) joining the Republicans in voting for Trusty.
Senate confirms Trusty to fill GOP seat on FCC in a split vote

1 week ago | insidecybersecurity.com | Sara Friedman

Daily News The Senate has confirmed in a 53-45 vote the nomination of Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, filling a critical Republican vacancy to advance the agenda of Chairman Brendan Carr. Trusty was nominated in January to fill a GOP seat on the FCC following the departure of former President Biden’s FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel. The Senate vote on June 17 was along party lines with Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) joining the Republicans in voting for Trusty.
Attorneys raise concern over FCC opening up proceeding to consider adding connected vehicle tech to covered list restricting Chinese firms

1 week ago | insidecybersecurity.com | Sara Friedman

Daily News Attorneys from law firm Wiley are reviewing a recent proceeding opened by staff at the Federal Communications Commission to consider expanding the covered list for equipment and services from specific Chinese firms to include connected vehicle technologies, arguing that the action is significant because it would add new categories for the first time.
SEC withdraws three proposed cyber rulemakings, but keeps finalized incident disclosure regulation criticized by industry

1 week ago | insidecybersecurity.com | Sara Friedman

Daily News The Securities and Exchange Commission withdrew three cyber regulatory proposals in a massive rollback on June 12 under new Chairman Paul Atkins, while leaving in place the most controversial cyber proposal in recent years requiring incident disclosure from publicly traded companies, which was finalized in June 2023. “The Securities and Exchange Commission is formally withdrawing certain notices of proposed rulemaking issued between March 2022 and November 2023.

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ICYMI: Stakeholders identify potential vehicles for CISA 2015 reauthorization, detail concerns over timing https://t.co/qXvFIJnoex @BizRoundtable @ITI_TechTweets @AllianceThreat

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Articles

Former ONCD official Leiserson outlines approach for government to backstop cyber insurance through legislation

FCC security advisory group recommends best practices for integrating AI into telecom systems

NIST seeks comment on initial implementation of NCCoE chatbot detailed in draft publication

NIST releases draft white paper outlining security principles for 5G networks

Lawmakers raise surveillance issues to Palantir over creation of ‘mega-database’ containing sensitive information from American citizens

Security leader Clinton pushes back on cyber regulatory harmonization in favor of finding ‘redundancies’ to drive efficiencies

GOP nominee Trusty confirmed for FCC seat by a divided Senate

Senate confirms Trusty to fill GOP seat on FCC in a split vote

Attorneys raise concern over FCC opening up proceeding to consider adding connected vehicle tech to covered list restricting Chinese firms

SEC withdraws three proposed cyber rulemakings, but keeps finalized incident disclosure regulation criticized by industry

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