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U.S. National Cyber Director, leading the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) in setting federal cybersecurity policy and strategy.
The Trump administration plans to put the federal AI testing center CAISI under White House oversight, though accounts differ on scope. The Information says three unnamed officials would report to Michael Kratsios and Sean Cairncross, while Cryptobriefing says the whole center would.
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Donald Trump's new AI task force is co-chaired by four officials from intelligence, personnel, technology and the FTC who represent competing views on AI. Product teams should plan around the features each camp has already objected to.
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Washington's first state-level cyber pilot swaps rulemaking for donated vendor labor, which leaves an unanswered question about who pays to fix what the red teams find at Texas water utilities after month six.
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House Democrats introduced a bill ordering CISA to measure its threat hunting, incident response and Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative staffing against its mission, and to report the gaps to Congress.
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Semafor's three sources put the Treasury secretary at the front of a four-name field for a post whose structure and authority Trump has not described. The White House calls unannounced personnel reporting baseless speculation.
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Sean Cairncross told the Billington CyberSecurity Summit on Thursday that the race with AI is an exponential equation. The two AI security incidents from the same week were reported without dates, victims or scope.
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The memo tells DHS to vet and license firms for cyber surveillance and disruption against foreign crime groups. Contractors will be making state-grade attribution calls backed by a $1 million bond and little else.
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