{"id":41141,"date":"2021-10-13T23:47:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41141"},"modified":"2021-10-13T23:47:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T06:47:45","slug":"u-s-department-of-state-holds-cybersecurity-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41141","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Department of State Holds Cybersecurity Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>10\/13\/2021 07:08 PM EDT<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Office of the Spokesperson<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, October 4, 2021, the U.S. State Department\u2019s Chief Information Officer (CIO) Keith A. Jones opened a month-long workshop highlighting Cybersecurity Awareness Month, hosted by the Bureau of Information Resource Management (IRM).\u00a0 The workshop brings together State Department experts in cybersecurity, cloud services, and communication technologies to lead timely internal discussions on protecting U.S. foreign affairs networks and sensitive foreign policy data from malicious cyber actors.<\/p>\n<p>With more than 800 participants, this year\u2019s workshop constitutes the largest annual gathering of U.S. diplomatic technologists.\u00a0 It also represents broader efforts across the U.S. Government to advance cybersecurity and technology modernization, at the direction of President Biden\u2019s Executive Order on Improving the Nation\u2019s Cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p>CIO Jones\u2019 opening remarks emphasized the importance of enabling a secure and innovative technological foundation for U.S. diplomacy to advance U.S. interests abroad and protect American prosperity from all cyber threats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10\/13\/2021 07:08 PM EDT &nbsp; Office&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41142,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41141\/revisions\/41142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}