#jen-easterly — Public Fediverse posts

"Let’s protect not just the systems, but the people and principles that make those systems worth defending.

Because the most significant vulnerability we face isn’t a zero-day vulnerability in our software, it’s a zero-day vulnerability in our civic integrity.

And the patch requires all of us."

/by #JenEasterly
/via @zackwhittaker

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-we-really-securing-jen-easterly-auyae/

#Cologne #ClimateJustice #Feminismus #YouthForClimate

Easterly Calls for Resilience Against China as Biden Preps Cybersecurity Order https://thecyberexpress.com/easterly-biden-cybersecurity-order/ #criticalinfrastructure #Bidenexecutiveorders #TheCyberExpressNews #TheCyberExpress #Vulnerabilities #FirewallDaily #cybersecurity #JenEasterly #CyberNews #BidenEO #China #CISA

CISA, FBI Release Product Security Bad Practices Catalog: A Step Towards Safer Software https://thecyberexpress.com/cisa-fbi-release-product-security-practices/ #NationalCybersecurityStrategy #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth #ProductSecurityBadPractices #TheCyberExpressNews #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #JenEasterly #CyberNews #CISA #FBI

CISA Director Assures: Foreign Interference Cannot Alter US Election Results https://thecyberexpress.com/us-election-security/ #Bidenadministration #TheCyberExpressNews #USelectionsecurity #ElectionSecurity #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #JenEasterly #USofficials #CyberNews #CISA

This week featured vastly less travel than last week, but it also afforded me the rare experience of hearing an executive-branch appointee burst into song. And at the end of it, I carved out some time to write a post for Patreon readers about how certain PR pitches come with either a request or a stipulation that I cover the subject for a particular outlet.

4/23/2024: T-Mobile Adds New Fixed Wireless Plans: One for Home, One for the Road, PCMag

Of all of T-Mobile’s announcements Tuesday, the unlimited-data version of its new Away fixed-wireless plan was easily the most interesting.

4/23/2024: FTC Votes to Ban Non-Compete Clauses, PCMag

I wrote an update to the post I’d filed more than a year earlier when the Federal Trade Commission had started this rule-making process, explaining the particulars of the new FTC rule and noting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s plans to sue to overturn this ban.

4/25/2024: Feds Try Breaking Out Into Song to Get People to Take Ransomware Seriously, PCMag

I spent Wednesday at a conference in Washington hosted by the Institute for Security and Technology, then wrote this recap Thursday that led off with Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency director Jen Easterly singing a bit from an upcoming remake of Schoolhouse Rock’s “I’m Just A Bill.”

4/27/2024: Ep 99 SmartTechCheck Podcast – TikTok, smartphones and children, FCC broadband labels mandate, Mark Vena

I joined my tech-analyst friend’s podcast to discuss the new law requiring TikTok owner ByteDance to sell that social platform, the FCC’s broadband-labels regulation, how harmful smartphones might be to kids, and other tech topics.

Updated 5/5/2024 to add a link to the Patreon post.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/04/28/weekly-output-t-mobile-adds-fixed-wireless-plans-ftc-bans-non-compete-clauses-ransomware-prevention-mark-vena-podcast/

#cybersecurity #fixedWireless #FTCNonCompeteBan #informationSecurity #infosec #JenEasterly #MarkVena #nonCompeteClauses #ransomware #SchoolhouseRock #TMobile #TMobileHome5G #TMobileHomeInternet

In case you missed it, in order to "combat online threats", #JenEasterly on Thursday as the Director of #HomelandSecurity's #CyberSecurity and #Infrastructure Security (#CISA) said at a #BlackHat #Security Conference that #CrowdStrike, #Amazon Web Services, #Google, #Microsoft, #PaloAlto Networks, #FireEye, #ATnT, #Verizon and #Lumen have all agreed to work on a "new initiative".

> Enlists help of #nazis to fight nazis. Terrorists to fight #terrorists.

BigTech is the virus

#imprisonList