CYBERSECURITY

& Information Systems Digest

12 OCTOBER 21

CSIAC collects and publishes articles related to our technical focus areas on the web to share with the DoD community.

FEATURED ARTICLE

New Online Tool to Improve Stakeholder Engagement with Security and Privacy Controls

NIST has improved the usability of their most downloaded NIST publication, Special Publication (SP) 800-53. NIST has now made it available in additional data formats (e.g., CSV, XML, OSCAL, and online) and has improved the overall accessibility of the document. In response to suggestions (and in the spirit of the NIST publication development principles), NIST…

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

Challenges in Applying the Law of Armed Conflict to Cyberwar

On June 17, 2010, a small antivirus company established in Belarus discovered the Stuxnet worm. Later research would reveal that an earlier variant of the worm existed at least a year earlier. Stuxnet reputedly caused the physical degradation of some 1,000 centrifuges at the Natanz facility in Iran, based on data of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) [1]. While the identity of the perpetrators…

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UPCOMING WEBINAR

President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition: Building a Competition Across the Federal Workforce

In 2019, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) held the first cybersecurity competition for the federal workforce. The goal of the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition is “to identify, challenge, and reward the United States government’s best cybersecurity practitioners and teams across offensive and defensive cybersecurity disciplines.” To be able to…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Emerging Technologies for Defense Conference & Exhibition

Explore the innovations that will help shape national security for the next century at NDIA’s flagship Emerging Technologies Conference! Hear directly from technology leaders in government, defense industry, the commercial sector, and academia on cutting-edge…

National Cyber Summit

National Cyber Summit is an innovative cybersecurity-technology event, offering educational, collaborative, and workforce development opportunities for industry visionaries and rising leaders. NCS provides diverse focus areas, speakers, and accessibility. Held in Huntsville, Alabama, the Summit…

ADEC 2025

ADEC enables leaders of the national security analysis community to strengthen existing partnerships, seed new ones, and share strategies and best practices across sectors. Attendees represent the U.S. military, government, intelligence community, industry stakeholders, university-affiliated…

CyberBay 2025

CyberBay 2025 is the inaugural event connecting Florida’s technology, academic, military, and government sectors in a shared mission to continue the Tampa Bay Region’s evolution as the crossroads where cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), and national…

ISC2 Security Congress 2025

The 13th annual ISC2 Security Congress will be hosted live at the Gaylord Opryland Nashville, along with a hybrid virtual option. The keynote session will feature Phil Venables, the Strategic Security Advisor at Google. There…

Voice From the Community

Michael Williams
MIchael G. Williams

Lead Senior Security Engineer, Joint Environment Toolset (JET), Raytheon Intelligence & Space

I am a technical staff member subject matter expert with nearly 25 years of expertise in systems, network, and security life cycle engineering and architecture. As a senior security engineer, I have supported several large infrastructure and system engineering and deployment projects, including engineering, deploying, and implementing all the security tools for a new DoD facility and engineering and deploying several security tools for a DoD on-prem private cloud solution. My background is in management information systems, telecommunications, and information assurance. I am an expert with several security tools, security techniques, risk assessments, accreditation, compliance, and Internet of Things security. I hold a Ph.D. in computer engineering.

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