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Former DHS cybersecurity strategist Chris DeRusha has been named chief security officer for the state of Michigan.

As if changing missions, resource shortages and salary pressures weren’t big-enough challenges, many federal workers must deal with another hurdle that’s been largely overlooked: smartphone bans.

President Trump signed an executive order that is aimed to guide the development and regulation of artificial intelligence in the U.S.

Cost recovery for electric sector cybersecurity investments and development of resilience metrics to gauge the industry's progress are two of several recommendations by Vermont Law School researchers and a six-month study of electric grid security.

A U.S. school district becomes the victim of a cyberattack almost as often as every three days.

BBVA Compass has named Brian Fricke as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), where he will oversee the bank's Information Security and Engineering Risk functions.

A new poll by CreditCards.com found that 92 percent of Americans have taken at least one big data security risk in the past year.

The rate of women taking over the role of Chief Executive Officer in 2018 rose to 22 percent, after hovering at 18 percent in both 2017 and 2016, according to a report by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.

What is the most cybersecure country in the world? A new study looked at 60 countries and found huge variances, from malware rates to cybersecurity-related legislation.

According to an annual report by the Identity Theft Resource Center, the number of U.S. data breaches tracked in 2018 decreased from last year’s all-time high of 1,632 breaches by 23 percent (or 1,244 breaches), but the reported number of consumer records exposed containing sensitive personally identifiable information jumped 126 percent from the 197,612,748 records exposed in 2017 to 446,515,334 records this past year.