CYBERSECURITY

& Information Systems Digest

6 MAY 2025

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

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READ OUR LATEST STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORT (SOAR)

CSIAC is pleased to announce publication of our latest SOAR “Cybertest and Evaluation of Defensive Cyberoperations in the U.S. Army.”

This SOAR delves into the cybersecurity testing activities for defensive cyberoperations, which include discovery, vulnerability analysis, continuous monitoring, intel support, mitigation/remediation, event correlation, penetration testing, threat emulation, and malware analysis.

The report was written by Tiffany Williams, Joseph Matthew Friar, Olutoye Sekiteri, and Philip Payne.

Click here to read the SOAR:  https://csiac.dtic.mil/state-of-the-art-reports/cybertest-and-evaluation-of-defensive-cyberoperations-in-the-u-s-army/.

FEATURED ARTICLE

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NIST Updates Privacy Framework, Tying It to Recent Cybersecurity Guidelines

How can society benefit from the use of personal data while also protecting individual privacy? Five years after debuting guidelines that can help organizations balance these goals, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has drafted a new version of the NIST Privacy Framework intended to address current privacy risk management needs, maintain alignment…

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Featured Notable Technical Inquiry

Security-Conscious Password Behavior From the End-User’s Perspective

Even though technical solutions for security problems are widespread, there are no adequate security measures against precarious user behavior.  Even if hashing and encrypting are used correctly in masking the passwords, attackers can bypass these strong points by going for the weakest link.  Most likely, this will happen through sharing a password, using an already leaked password, or creating a feasibly guessable password (Olmstead and…

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FUTURE WEBINARS

CSIAC hosts live online technical presentations featuring a DoD research and engineering topic within our technical focus areas.

A Journey From CRISP to ATLAS

Hosted by: Eric Kaden

May 22, 2025 12:00 pm
DID YOU MISS OUR LAST WEBINAR?

UPCOMING WEBINAR

A Journey From CRISP to ATLAS

This webinar presents an evolutionary approach in cybersecurity analytics, transitioning from the Cyber Readiness Inspection Statistics Platform (CRISP) to the Automated Threat Landscape Assessment System (ATLAS). CRISP initially revolutionized cybersecurity readiness by converting STIG-based Cyber Operational Readiness Assessment (CORA) data into actionable insights via MITRE ATT&CK Navigator heatmaps, providing users with comprehensive statistical processing for…

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UPCOMING EVENTS

2025 Department of the Air Force Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Summit

The goal of the M&S Summit is to gather U.S. Air Force and Space Force M&S experts to learn about new M&S initiatives and techniques, network across military services and with industry experts, and hear…

Voice From the Community

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Robert W. Kirby, CISSP – ISSEP

Systems Security Engineering Lead (SSE-L) for Program Management Activity (PMA) 271 Airborne Strategic Command, Control and Communications Program Office

Robert is responsible for the development of the Program Protection Plan, defining Program and Technology Protection of the Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) acquisition program. Additional responsibilities include technical support for secure software development, cybersecurity supply chain risk management, security and risk analysis and assessment of systems, applications and networks and developing security design requirements for new systems.

PMA 271 is currently in the process of recapitalizing the TACAMO mission to replace the aging E-6B that has been flying the mission since 1989.

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