CYBERSECURITY

& Information Systems Digest

12 OCTOBER 21

CSIAC collects and publishes articles related to our technical focus areas on the web to share with the DoD community.

FEATURED ARTICLE

New Online Tool to Improve Stakeholder Engagement with Security and Privacy Controls

NIST has improved the usability of their most downloaded NIST publication, Special Publication (SP) 800-53. NIST has now made it available in additional data formats (e.g., CSV, XML, OSCAL, and online) and has improved the overall accessibility of the document. In response to suggestions (and in the spirit of the NIST publication development principles), NIST…

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

Challenges in Applying the Law of Armed Conflict to Cyberwar

On June 17, 2010, a small antivirus company established in Belarus discovered the Stuxnet worm. Later research would reveal that an earlier variant of the worm existed at least a year earlier. Stuxnet reputedly caused the physical degradation of some 1,000 centrifuges at the Natanz facility in Iran, based on data of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [1]. While the identity of the perpetrators…

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UPCOMING WEBINAR

President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition: Building a Competition Across the Federal Workforce

In 2019, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) held the first cybersecurity competition for the federal workforce. The goal of the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition is “to identify, challenge, and reward the United States government’s best cybersecurity practitioners and teams across offensive and defensive cybersecurity disciplines.” To be able to…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

ITEN Wired | TechNet CyberCoast Conference

Join us October 16-18, 2024 in beautiful Pensacola Beach, Florida for an event celebrating the southeast tech community. ITEN (innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, and network) WIRED |TechNet CyberCoast is the tech conference to connect, collaborate, and…

National Summit on Military Training, Modeling, & Simulation

Synthetic environments, integrating cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, and artificial intelligence, are reshaping traditional training methodologies, and offering a vital means to enhance readiness and resilience among military personnel. Against…

TechNet Indo-Pacific

TechNet Indo-Pacific is a strategic event in the Indo-Pacific Rim. This year’s conference — “Free – Open – Secure” — focuses on the critical issues identified by regional military leaders to maintain and protect data…

GridSecCon 2024

NERC, the E-ISAC, and the Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO) are co-hosting the 13th annual grid security conference, GridSecCon 2024, on October 22 – 25 in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Hyatt Regency. Join industry and government…

2024 Department of Defense Intelligence Information System Worldwide Conference

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Chief Information Office (CIO) is excited to welcome participants to the 2024 Department of Defense Intelligence Information System (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference at the Omaha Convention Center in Omaha, Nebraska, from…

2024 Defense Logistics & Support Conference

With the expertise of thought leaders from the US Department of Defense, industry, academia and allied nations, this conference dives deeper into contested logistics, assessing current challenges and strategies. The discussions will encompass technology shaping…

Voice From the Community

Michael Williams
MIchael G. Williams

Lead Senior Security Engineer, Joint Environment Toolset (JET), Raytheon Intelligence & Space

I am a technical staff member subject matter expert with nearly 25 years of expertise in systems, network, and security life cycle engineering and architecture. As a senior security engineer, I have supported several large infrastructure and system engineering and deployment projects, including engineering, deploying, and implementing all the security tools for a new DoD facility and engineering and deploying several security tools for a DoD on-prem private cloud solution. My background is in management information systems, telecommunications, and information assurance. I am an expert with several security tools, security techniques, risk assessments, accreditation, compliance, and Internet of Things security. I hold a Ph.D. in computer engineering.

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