I like the detail that the candidates' positions on the left or right were determined by a coin toss. Is there a better side that both of them really wanted? #Debates2024
If it were me, I would show up with four mugs and a six-piece suit, but I'm built different.
NEW: Citing natsec concerns, U.S. bans Russian cyber firm @kaspersky from selling its products in the U.S. New sales end 7/20, software updates to existing customers end 9/29.
First use of Trump-era authorities. Move could jolt many businesses.
@CommerceGov knows roughly how many organizations use Kaspersky and will work with DHS and DOJ to brief them on alleged national security risks and help them transition to other vendors.
@CISAgov will lead outreach to critical infrastructure orgs, some of which do use Kaspersky.
Kaspersky has been banned on USG networks since 2017.
In 2019, Trump signed an EO letting Commerce ban all U.S. transactions of risky foreign-linked IT products and services.
This is the first action to use that authority -- and it could be a legal test case if Kaspersky sues.
Chair Mark Green calls the CSRB report's findings "extremely concerning."
"It falls to this committee to do the due diligence and determine just where Microsoft sits and how it's taken this report to heart."
Green: "We want to give the company we put so much faith in as a government the opportunity to discuss the lessons learned, the actions taken, and, of course, to share where they feel the report could have been wrong."
The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding a hearing on threats to the 2024 election, with DNI Avril Haines, @CISAJen, and FBI National Security Branch chief Larissa Knapp testifying. intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-…
SSCI Chair Mark Warner delivers an opening statement summarizing the many different kinds of foreign election interference we've seen, from Russia in 2016 to Iran in 2020 to China now. He also describes Russian interference in other countries' elections.
"In many ways, our adversaries could be more sophisticated and aggressive in both scale and scope in this election even than in prior years," Warner says.
.@ONCD has released two updates on Biden admin's efforts to implement the National Cybersecurity Strategy: a report on the U.S.'s cyber posture (including actions taken in 2023 and early 2024) and a second NCS implementation plan.
The cyber posture report, required by the FY21 NDAA that created ONCD, describes actions taken by agencies to further the Biden administration's cybersecurity agenda, future agenda items, the threat landscape over the past year-ish, and future challenges.
The House Homeland Security cyber subcommittee is holding a hearing on CISA's implementation of its cyber incident reporting rule:
There are witnesses from the financial services, energy, and telecom industries, along with @AmitElazari.homeland.house.gov/hearing/survey…
The U.S.'s current "confusing and reactive, rather than proactive, reporting regime increases the risk of the security of our homeland," Chair @RepGarbarino says.
"It is imperative that we get the CIRCIA rule right," Garbarino says, referring to the law that authorized the regulation. "CIRCIA should serve as the standard, not another regulation standing in the way of effective cyber defense."