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New European Cyber Rules for Electricity Providers Aim to Prevent Cascading Outages
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Hello. Electricity providers in Europe will soon have to perform cybersecurity risk assessments for regulators, including disclosing incidents, reporting threats and implementing safeguards, under upcoming rules that aim to prevent hacks from causing blackouts in the region.
The new rules are expected to take effect as soon as lawmakers approve them, which could come as soon as next week. Read more from WSJ Pro's Catherine Stupp.
Looking for a highly readable FAQ on the cyberattack at UnitedHealth? Try our explainer, freshly updated with the latest details about how the ransomware gang got in, what CEO Andrew Witty said, and didn't say, at the Washington hearings this week, and more. UnitedHealth Hack: What You Need to Know
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AWS, Crowdstrike get closer
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Microsoft hopes a cadre of deputy CISOs will help product security
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Telecom providers needs billions more to strip Chinese-made gear from their networks, FCC says
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Microsoft is embedding deputy CISOs in its product groups in an effort to improve security after high-profile cyberattacks attributed to Chinese and Russian hackers. New global CISO Igor Tsyganskiy will oversee these leaders. The company also named Ann Johnson as a deputy CISO responsible for talking with customers about Microsoft's security efforts. (Bloomberg)
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Crowdstrike and Amazon Web Services agreed to buy more products from each other, expanding an existing strategic partnership, the companies said Thursday. AWS plans to replace several point products with an integrated suite from Crowdstrike.
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The cybersecurity vendor said it plans to expand its use of Amazon Bedrock AI products, including Anthropic’s Claude collection of large language models and Amazon SageMaker to deploy custom models, in part to add AI to the Crowdstrike Falcon security platform.
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PHOTO: JONATHAN NEWTON/REUTERS
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FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said U.S. telecom companies need Congress to more than double funding for removing Chinese-made equipment from their networks. Congress had allocated $1.9 billion but about $4.98 billion is needed, Rosenworcel said Thursday. Deadlines for removal range from this month to February 2025.
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Lawmakers in 2019 asked the FCC to force telecom providers to strip out gear from Huawei Technologies, ZTE and other companies based in China, citing threats to national security. (Reuters)
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“So many of those attacks are basically possible as a consequence of just not engaging in good cybersecurity practices, not updating passwords, not, you know, doing the kind of work that needs to be done patching vulnerabilities.”
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— Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, testifying Thursday to Congress about cybercrime against U.S. infrastructure and other national security threats
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