Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. The Pentagon plans to change the way it addresses cybersecurity ...

From a new national cyber strategy to highly anticipated actions around AI security, here are five things worth watching on the cyber policy front.

Strong basics matter, but resilience now depends on visibility, control and clear ownership of risk across people, systems ...

National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross and CISA's Nick Andersen discussed the new initiatives at the ITI's Intersect Summit.

2026 text written on a blue flowing binary code background. New Year 2026 celebration concept. 2026 is a pivotal juncture for cybersecurity. What was once considered an operational safety net and a ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. With 2025 coming to a close, Nextgov/FCW asked cybersecurity experts — including former officials, research analysts and providers — to ...

China didn’t break into America’s telecom networks with futuristic cyber weapons — it walked through unlocked doors. Washington often frames the cyber ...

AI’s emergence as a transformative force is spurring CISOs to rethink how their teams operate to harness the technology’s potential and better defend its use across the organization. Generative AI has ...

With threat actors exploiting the growing use of generative AI tools and the prevalence of shadow AI, organisations must strengthen their security programmes and culture to manage the rising risk ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and AI agents are seemingly everywhere. Be it with conference show floors or television adverts featuring celebrities, suppliers are keen to showcase the technology, which ...

For years, many organizations treated cybersecurity training as a mere compliance requirement. But today’s executive teams are taking a radically different approach. They're recasting cyber-readiness ...