This report (September 2022) provides the results of a review by the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on foreign intelligence threats. Among the findings: foreign intelligence entities are targeting the public and private sectors alike, including the financial sector, the U.S. industrial base, academic entities, U.S. government departments and agencies that are not part of the intelligence community, and national laboratories; and that today’s adversaries have access to a much wider variety of tools for stealing information, influencing U.S. officials or inflaming social and political tensions than in the past, including nontraditional human, cyber, advanced technical, and open source intelligence operations to collect against U.S. plans and policies, sensitive technology, personally identifiable information, and intellectual property, as well as to influence U.S. decision-making and public opinion.

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This report (June 2022), commissioned by the Department of Defense, to examine vulnerabilities in blockchain finance. Among other things, the report found that it only takes four entities to disrupt Bitcoin and only two to disrupt Ethereum; that 60% of all Bitcoin traffic moves through just three ISPs; and, that outdated and unencrypted software and blockchain protocols were identified.

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This website of IEEE  provides the results of its survey of tech industry leaders on critical technology trends and issues important to the industry for 2022. Among the findings are that manufacturing, financial services, healthcare and energy will be the sectors most impacted by technology, and that cybersecurity is consistently reported as one of the highest concerns.

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This GAO report assesses the legal framework underpinning current personal information protection laws, identifies known gaps, and recommends that Congress take action to develop a Federal privacy framework in law and regulation.

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This report (October 2021) provides detail into what Microsoft is seeing with respect to cyber attacks, and also provides information into the strategies Microsoft and other companies must employ to address cyber threats.

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This GAO article provides a summary of the 2019 SolarWinds cyberattack perpetrated by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. 

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This memorandum (November 2021) of the majority staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform summarizes findings from recent ransomware attacks. The memorandum concludes that security lapses were small but that these led to major breaches, that there were a lack of clear points of contact in the Federal Government, and that pressure existed on companies to pay ransoms quickly.

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This GAO report (December 2021) summarizes current and past actions by the Federal Government to improve cybersecurity. The key future actions GAO identifies as needed include developing and executing a comprehensive national cyber strategy, and strengthening the federal role in protecting the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure.

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