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The Biden administration bungles cyber-defense
American Thinker.com ^ | August 14, 2021 | Julio Rivera

Posted on 08/14/2021 6:32:33 AM PDT by Kaslin

It is no secret that the Biden administration has a serious cyber-security problem. In fact, American vulnerability under the new president has ushered in a period of unprecedented cyber-activity against the U.S., and new attacks have wrought havoc against all sectors of the economy and critical infrastructure.

Headlines from the beginning of the year through deep into the summer have been dominated by attacks against entities including Apple, Colonial Pipeline, beef supplier JBS, and Kaseya, and these hacks all have happened in the aftermath of the wide-ranging SolarWinds attack, which affected tens of thousands of public and private organizations.

In response, the various agencies operating under the Biden administration have rolled out, on what seems to be a monthly basis, initiative after initiative all in an effort to stay ahead of the next major attack. Some of these initiatives include the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s "Reduce the Risk of Ransomware Campaign" and a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) program that is providing grants to state and local government agencies to spend toward improving cyber-security.

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1 posted on 08/14/2021 6:32:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Coulda stopped at “Biden administration bungles”


2 posted on 08/14/2021 6:38:31 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: Kaslin

The author is no expert:

“Microsoft, for one, which is the company responsible for perhaps most commonly used anti-virus suite in the world, Microsoft Defender Antivirus”

Not true, by a massively long shot.

Most windows PC users acquire third party security software/application(s) and turn off or ignore Microsoft Defender. The fact that Defender gets bundled in a Windows package installation does not translate into “most commonly uesed”.


3 posted on 08/14/2021 6:48:00 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Kaslin

bkmk


4 posted on 08/14/2021 7:22:30 AM PDT by sauropod (Time is like quicksilver, smearing the years... - Bill Nelson)
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To: Kaslin

Mind you, most of the Feds are second-rate, at best.

I applied for a Cyber position at CISA in April. They haven’t even evaluated it. I have three offers on the table right now, all from the Private Sector, and all paying significantly more than the GS-13 Uncle Sam is willing to pay. ..


5 posted on 08/14/2021 7:31:04 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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To: Kaslin

He’s mastered the art of bungling for the last 40 years.


6 posted on 08/14/2021 8:02:39 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Salgak

If you have real qualifications, they do not want you as a GS13. You will make them look bad and put thier retirement at risk.


7 posted on 08/14/2021 8:14:11 AM PDT by D Rider ( )
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To: Kaslin

The list of things Biden doesn’t bungle is shorter. i.e. 0


8 posted on 08/14/2021 9:22:09 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
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To: D Rider

November Sierra, Sierra !!

. . . the the few actually talented types I saw in .gov did not last long there. . .


9 posted on 08/14/2021 9:23:18 AM PDT by Salgak (You're in Strange Hands with Tom Stranger. . . .)
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