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National Security Council's Bulazel to Reset Cyber Norms With Offensive StrategyNational Security Council's Alexei Bulazel told RSA attendees that offensive cyber tools must play a bigger role in U.S. defense. He called for a streamlined regulatory approach, more robust interagency coordination and a narrower role for CISA focused on critical infrastructure and civilian agencies.

NSC’s Alexei Bulazel said that failing to robustly respond to constant Chinese intrusions into critical infrastructure is in itself “escalatory”

This time criminals targeted partner’s third-party software It's more bad news from Ascension Health which is informing some of its patients, potentially for the second time in the space of a year, that their medical data was compromised during a major cyberattack.…

Quick Recovery Plans Needed As Nation-State Groups Target Critical InfrastructureNation state threats have been outpacing defense for decades, adapting and evolving much faster. Now they're also changing motivations, from information gathering and seeking economic advantage to apparently pre-positioning to cause disruption in a future hybrid war, said Rubrik's Travis Rosiek.

Leaders at federal research organizations DARPA, ARPA-I, and ARPA-H discussed the myriad obstacles in addressing critical infrastructure security at RSAC Conference 2025.

​Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, is notifying patients that their personal and health information was stolen in a December 2024 data theft attack, which affected a former business partner. [...]

Today, the French foreign ministry blamed the APT28 hacking group linked to Russia's military intelligence service (GRU) for targeting or breaching a dozen French entities over the last four years. [...]

How does a company defend itself from cyberattacks by a foreign adversary? A collection of experts gathered at this year's RSAC Conference to explain how the US can help.

Dragos' Robert Lee on Why Ransomware Groups Target OT for Faster, Larger PayoutsRansomware attacks on OT systems rose to 87% in 2024. With industrial systems becoming more connected and digitized, threat actors are able to scale attacks more effectively across critical infrastructure, said Robert Lee, co-founder and CEO of Dragos.

Artificial intelligence is helping Beijing's goons break in faster and stay longer RSAC The biggest threat to US critical infrastructure, according to FBI Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser, can be summed up in one word: "China."…