#federal-policy
5 stories taggedfederal-policy.
The US Government Just Changed How Agencies Must Fix Security Flaws. It Is Not Enough.
A new federal directive finally ties patch deadlines to real-world risk. Then AI rewrote the problem.
White House Orders Federal Agencies to Migrate Cryptography by 2030, Signals Contractor Reckoning
Two executive orders set hard federal deadlines for post-quantum cryptography adoption and launch a government-wide quantum R&D program — with ripple effects for every contractor touching federal networks.
White House Sets Hard Clock on Post-Quantum Migration for Federal Systems
An executive order mandates that high-value federal assets shift to post-quantum cryptography by 2030–2031. For identity infrastructure, that deadline is closer than it looks.
CISA's New Patching Directive Drops CVSS as the North Star
BOD 26-04 introduces a four-factor framework that prioritizes internet exposure, active exploitation, and attacker automation over raw severity scores — and gives agencies three days to act on the worst cases.
Trump Signs AI Cybersecurity Order, Reviving the Pre-Release Review Provisions His Team Killed Two Weeks Ago
The new directive creates a voluntary framework for government review of frontier AI models and spins up a Treasury-led vulnerability clearinghouse — while going out of its way to say none of this is mandatory.