Welcome to the Future!
Who is funding cybersecurity grants? The Hewlett Foundation Cybersecurity Initiative
How much in grant fudning is available? Started at $20 Million. It’s at $45 Million now.
The lucky recipients are? University of California at Berkeley, Stanford & MIT
Any Texas recipients? No. As Hewlett chief alludes, more private interests need to support research about how cyber security should look in the future. Specifically:
What type of information could be valuable from parking?
U.S. Army National Guard announced “13 new cyber units that will be spread throughout 23 states by the end of fiscal year 2019.”
The U.S. Air Guard will be operating a new cyber squadron in Texas.
SC Magazine | Army National Guard announces 13 new cyber units across 23 states
Credit Union National Association | Study: Companies losing confidence in data breach protections
What data center project? Microsoft bought 158 acres in the Texas Research Park real estate controlled by the Texas Research & Technology Foundation.
How big of a project is this? It will be one of the largest data centers in the U.S.
Where’s the economic development angle? The Texas Research and Technology Foundation uses proceeds from the sale of the land to fund biotech companies
Puget Sound Business Journal | EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft buys nearly 160 acres in San Antonio for data…
Data security landscape constantly changes and regulation will not keep up that pace.
The Hill | Retailers pan cyber bills as holiday assault looms
The Hill | Retailers pan cyber bills as holiday assault looms
The Montana Information Technology Managers Council this fall promulgaed policy to require Montana state agencies to classify information in 4 categories:
Open government? The category names depcit a conflict between category names IT professionals regularly utilize & the categories that political types would prefer,
The policy is htting the Montana Legislature with a roar.
Montana Standard | State mulls policy on public, secret, top secret…
…California.
The Hill reports that Congressinaction is by default allowing California’s data breach laws to precedence as a national standard.
California data security laws tackle business notification requirements; education data breaches; and health care data breaches.
10 States that strengthened daa security laws in 2015:
Which agency is causing an uproar? The federal Office of Personnel Management. AKA “The OPM Breach of 2015”
How did the agency mishandle the data breach? A report this week from OPM’s Inspector General found 5 contracting irregularities when OPM awarded a $21M clean up the data breach contract.
The 5 Government Contracting Problems: