On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, our guests Andrea Schaumann, the director of federal programs and partnerships at Fortress and Joshua Steinman, co-founder of Galvanick and former deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for cyber security, discuss growing the cyber workforce, highlights from this year’s Black Hat and Defcon cyber conferences and best practices for keeping the United States ahead of adversaries and competitors. 

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Ezra Cohen, an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who served as the acting under secretary of defense for intelligence during the Trump administration, discusses authorities needed to improve national cyber defenses, the logic of separating the National Security Agency and the US Cyber Command, cyber lessons from Russia’s war on Ukraine and Chinese operations, role of US government in information warfare, and speeding security clearances with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Cyber Report, Daniel Silverberg, adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and the managing director of the corporate practice at the Capstone consultancy discusses cybersecurity threats and information sharing following the July 28 CNAS  hosted virtual discussion with Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology at the National Security Council.

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Robert Salvia, Fortress’ vice president…

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Andrea Schaumann, the director of…

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Adm. Mike Rogers, USN Ret., the former director of the National Security Agency and a former commander of US Cyber Command who is now a cyber consultant and chairman of the advisory board at cybersecurity firm Claroty, discusses lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the need to better integrate government and industry defenses, the importance of resilience and deterrence, balancing the disclosure of classified information and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian. Northrop Grumman also supports our cyber coverage. 

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Technology, Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, USN Ret., the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a senior adviser on the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, discusses the new commission report he co-authored with Laura Bate — “Workforce Development Agenda for the National Cyber Director” — why the market hasn’t addressed the need for federal cyber talent, capabilities needed for the future, and how to improve recruiting, training, education and retention; and Betsy Soehren Jones, Fortress Information Security’s chief operating officer, and Tobias Whitney, the company’s vice president for strategy and policy, discuss industry feedback for the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on software and hardware bill of materials — SBOMs and HBOMs — and how to improve the supply chain at the coding and component levels with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Dr. Jim Lewis, director of the Strategic Technologies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, discusses the Biden administration’s new National Security Memorandum on quantum computing and other moves to ensure America’s lead in the critical field from technology to training the right workforce for the future with Defense & Aerospace Report Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, Dr. Greg Austin who heads the Cyber Power and Future Conflict program at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Singapore, discusses Russia’s cyber capabilities, Moscow’s approach to cyber, US and allied offensive and defensive cyber abilities, how brain drain will undermine Russian information and communications technology, Western efforts to live without Russian labor and Russia’s ability to substitute for banned Western technologies, cyber lessons from the Ukraine War, what China is learning from international sanctions on Russia and how Beijing is working hard to avoid running afoul of US export law with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Fortress Information Security, David Berteau, the president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, discusses the Defense Department’s plans to roll out the second version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification — CMMC 2.0 — next March, why the effort is taking so long, what getting it “right” means, the importance of improving the security of services and government contractors overall, and why recent surveys of public cyber sentiments that on the surface appear grim are actually encouraging with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.