Elton Aba, a junior at Bearden High School in Knoxville and intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), worked with researchers to explore how biology can inform cybersecurity. Aba shared some of his discoveries regarding the potential of biomimicry to help secure US critical infrastructure. Aba collaborated with senior cyber researcher Nate Evans on a bio-inspired cybersecurity approach to system defense. With a focus on the similarities between biological and artificial defense systems, Aba and Evans sought to gain further insight into defending against a cyberattack.

A team of security researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), Arizona State University (ASU), and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) received a three-year $15 million grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in support of the multi-institutional "Strategic Exploration, Navigation and Patching of Abstracted Integrations" (SENPAI) project.

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The National Security Agency (NSA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and international allies have published a new Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) titled "Russian Military Cyber Actors Target US and Global Critical Infrastructure." It details the malicious activity attributed to cyber actors affiliated with the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155). This article continues to discuss the new CSA on Russian military cyber actors.

To fill over half a million job openings in cyber, technology and AI, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director put out a new program to fill the shortfalls. The program called Service for America aims to reach job candidates without formal backgrounds in computer science and engineering degrees. This effort as well as a national cyber workforce and education strategy that came out in July are part of the push to upgrade workforce skills to help prevent cyberattacks.