{"id":44123,"date":"2022-01-26T15:40:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44123"},"modified":"2022-01-26T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:40:40","slug":"biden-boosts-cybersecurity-at-federal-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=44123","title":{"rendered":"Biden boosts cybersecurity at federal agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House announced on Wednesday new measures\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/phydwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhyfmjvc_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a=&amp;b=46553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/phydwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhyfmjvc_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a%3D%26b%3D46553&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643324584368000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Xe_IDRzq9ar8MdjEn-4FG\">to boost cybersecurity<\/a>\u00a0within federal agencies following increased cyberattacks on private and public U.S. infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u2018Zero trust\u2019\u00a0approach<\/strong>:\u00a0According\u00a0to<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dthszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtrgchjs_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a=&amp;b=46553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/dthszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtrgchjs_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a%3D%26b%3D46553&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643324584368000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0CYKgJ0VNj83qhpznGBYBH\">\u00a0<wbr \/>a memo<\/a>\u00a0released by\u00a0Shalanda Young, the acting director for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), agencies will be transitioning to a &#8220;zero trust&#8221; approach that assumes no actor, system or network operating outside the security perimeter is to be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead, we must verify anything and everything attempting to establish access,&#8221; the memo reads, calling it a &#8220;dramatic paradigm shift in philosophy of how we secure our infrastructure, networks, and data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis\u00a0zero trust\u00a0strategy is about ensuring the federal government leads by example, and it marks another key milestone in our efforts to repel attacks from those who would do the United States harm,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gcynsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpckwrgmm_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a=&amp;b=46553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/gcynsjwqmccdfjfcdkrmmdnnmwdpcwchhtmqjlpckwrgmm_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a%3D%26b%3D46553&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643324584368000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Cw_LjNAAxRLxuoINDMW1-\">Young said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy is\u00a0in line with\u00a0President Biden&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vpymdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfkrhkrr_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a=&amp;b=46553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vpymdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfkrhkrr_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a%3D%26b%3D46553&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643324584368000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3pcTBV1oZXPHefvytIF2Uq\">executive order<\/a>\u00a0on improving the nation&#8217;s cybersecurity, which he signed in May after a major cyberattack crippled Colonial Pipelines, which\u00a0transports nearly half of the fuel up the East Coast. A Russian group known as\u00a0DarkSide\u00a0secured\u00a0a $4.4 million ransom after shutting the company&#8217;s operating system down, but the Department of Justice\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bfbbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpjdgjdp_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a=&amp;b=46553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/bfbbvsdkzppynsnpyjgzzybbzdympdpttqzkscmpjdgjdp_qwsmggswstmfvswsphwd.html?a%3D%26b%3D46553&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1643324584368000&amp;usg=AOvVaw37fmOMWE_UKby_HBFmiQ5U\">later recouped<\/a>\u00a0most of the money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House announced on Wednesday&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44123","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=44123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44124,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44123\/revisions\/44124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}