U.S. federal agencies were noted by their chief information security officers to be well-prepared for the Sept. 30 deadline on targets set in the zero trust architecture strategy of the Office of Management and Budget, FedScoop reports.

Blumira's Jim Simpson on how the company is lowering the barrier to entry in cybersecurity.

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced amendments to a 24-year regulation that will require certain financial firms including broker-dealers, funding portals, registered investment advisers, transfer agents, and investment companies to create well-defined response plans for data breach incidents, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

U.S. prosecutors announced the arrests of an American woman and a Ukrainian man for aiding North Korean IT workers posing as Americans to secure remote jobs at over 300 U.S. companies, Reuters reports.

Reps. Troy Carter, D-La., and Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., introduced the CISA Securing AI Task Force Act on Tuesday urging the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to establish an internal task force to focus on handling artificial intelligence-related safety and security concerns, FedScoop reports.

The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security invited Brad Smith, Microsoft’s top lawyer, to attend a proposed hearing on May 22 to discuss the use of the company’s email software that led to emails of U.S. government officials being obtained by hackers, according to CNBC.

U.S. cybersecurity agencies warn that Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea are increasingly targeting civil society organizations worldwide, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.