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There has and will be debates on how governments can regulate the current cyber advancements, which are changing at lightning speed.  As an example, water and wastewater entities in the State of New York, that will soon have access to a new $2.5 million grant program to help them mitigate the costs of forthcoming cybersecurity regulations.

This past week, NY state officials announced the new funding pool alongside the proposed regulations, which would require regulated water and wastewater syste

An overwhelming 98% of chief information security officers (CISOs) expect a surge in cyber-attacks over the next three years as organizations face an increasingly complex and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital threat landscape.  This is according to new research conducted among 300 CISOs, chief information officers (CIOs), and senior IT professionals by CSC, the leading provider of enterprise-class domain and domain name system (DNS) security.

The report, “CISO Outlook 2025: Navigating

The United States Coast Guard (USCG) published its final rule to introduce cybersecurity requirements for US-flagged vessels, along with port/terminal facilities and outer continental shelf facilities.

The rule takes effect from 16 July 2025 and will commence a 24-month period to achieve full compliance with the standards required in the rule.[1]

Key points:

• It applies only to US-flagged vessels that must comply with 33 CFR Part 104, for example cargo ships greater than 100 gross tons.
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The co-founder and CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, the world's largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, cleared the FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) making rounds online that the crypto empire is dumping Bitcoin to artificially bolster and stabilize the price of its native token Binance Coin (BNB).

Even before the US Securities and Exchange Commission filed 13 charges against Binance.US, Zhao, and other associated businesses, the crypto empire had been the subject of many spe

There are several ways in which an organization may discover that it has been the victim of a cyberattack or that an unauthorized third party has gained a foothold within its information technology (IT) environment.  Perhaps most commonly, an organization’s own endpoint detection, network monitoring, and other technical security controls identify and quarantine malicious cyber activity and allow for an investigation into the nature and scope of the event.  In some rare occasions, an organization

Ports in Europe are preparing for a major regulatory change next year in how the hundreds of companies in their global supply chains address cybersecurity as ports have become a target for criminal hacker groups and state-sponsored attacks.
Cybersecurity rules approved by the European Union (EU) for pharmaceuticals, transportation, energy and other critical infrastructure companies are set to take effect in 2024 and will require hundreds of firms that operate out of Europe’s big ports to use ba

Last Monday, the current US administration released a “Statement by President Biden on our Nation’s Cybersecurity,” followed by public statements where Biden warned about the prospect of a Russian cyberattack, saying “it’s coming.”  Both the written and verbal comments reinforced the fact that “the federal government can’t defend against the threat alone” and Biden went on to tell US critical infrastructure owners that “under US law…the private sector…largely decides the protections that we will

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on 20 January 2022, to strengthen its Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards by requiring internal network security monitoring (INSM) for high and medium impact bulk electric system cyber systems.

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) proposes to direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation to develop and submit new or modified Reliability Standards to address a gap in the current standards.[1]

Area Maritime Security Committees 2020 Annual Report – Challenges, Suggestions, Accomplishments, and Best Practices.  The Office of Port and Facility Compliance is pleased to announce the publication of a consolidated report[1] on the status and work completed in 2020 by Area Maritime Security Committees.  Area Maritime Security Committees 2020 Annual ReportArea Maritime Security Committees 2020 Annual Report.[2]

Area Maritime Security Committees (AMSCs) provide a valuable forum to discuss and a