User:Dreamyshade/US cybersecurity
Notes about improving content related to computer security regulations in the United States. Listed viewcounts are over the past 30 days.
AI
[edit]Didn't even look at this category as a whole yet.
- Meta AI - 21,800 - very outdated
- Regulation of artificial intelligence in the United States - 3500 - should be updated and clarified
- Chinchilla (language model) - 1400
General security topics
[edit]- Login - 42,000 - needs citations, but also very short - opportunity to integrate material about authentication and authorization, MFA, passkeys, cookies, and related topics in a plain language way
- Computer security - 21,000 - terrible shape; US section is really outdated
- Social engineering (security) - 13,000 - weak in general; fix regulatory countermeasures section
- Password manager - 11,000 - undue weight on vulnerabilities, needs material about benefits; tagged as needing citations since 2013
- Principle of least privilege - 9700 - certainly needs citations, but content is ok-ish
- Timeline of computer viruses and worms - 7700
- Internet leak - 7000
- Argon2 - 6500 - needed non-primary sources since 2016 - surprised this gets so many views
- Onion routing - 6200 - tagged as outdated since 2017
- Cryptographic nonce - 5400
- Keychain (software) - 5000
- List of security hacking incidents - 4600
- Key derivation function - 4400
- Single point of failure - 4300
- Parity bit - 3600
- Symmetric-key algorithm - 3600
- Bytecode - 3600 - tagged as needing citations since 2009
- Internet censorship and surveillance by country - 3400
- Redaction - 3400
- Whitelist - 3200
- Pop-up ad - 2900 - tagged as needing citations since 2008
- Web of trust - 2800
- Padding (cryptography) - 2700
- Registered user - 2700
- Plaintext - 2500
- Third-party cookies - 2400
- Arbitrary code execution - 2400
- Keygen - 2000
- Secure by design - 2000
- S/MIME - 2000
- UDP hole punching - 1900
- Credential - 1800 - tagged as needing citations since 2006
- Key exchange - 1400
- Black money scam - 1400
Specific products:
- PuTTY - 9700
- Google Authenticator - 9500
- You.com - 4600 - tagged promotional
- MEMZ - 4300
- LogMeIn Hamachi - 3900
- Whonix - 2700
- Barracuda Networks - 1700
Blockchain and cryptocurrency
[edit]Probably a lot more of these need a lot more work.
- Lightning Network - 7100
- Exit scam - 3200
- Polygon (blockchain) - 2900
- Decentralized application - 2300
- Initial coin offering - 1400
- Airdrop (cryptocurrency) - 700
Regulations and standards
[edit]- ISO/IEC 27001 - 12,500 - tagged as needing citations since 2014, but fairly straightforward; not in urgent need of improvement in my opinion
- ISO/IEC 14443 - 2000
- ISO/IEC 7816 - 1800
- Cyber-security regulation - needs work
- Information security standards
- Proactive cyber defence
- Cyber threat intelligence
US
[edit]Cyberwarfare and the United States
White House staff
[edit]- United States National Cyber Director - established in 2021 to advise the president on cybersecurity
- Federal Chief Information Officer of the United States - created by the E-Government Act of 2002, maintains effective information security and privacy controls across the federal government; related to FedRAMP
- Chief Technology Officer of the United States - 1400
Agencies
[edit]Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency - began in 2007 as the National Protection and Programs Directorate (NPPD), expanded in 2018
- National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center - established in 2008 by Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative
- United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team [outdated since 2023] ("Today, CISA retired US-CERT and ICS-CERT, integrating CISA’s operational content into a new CISA.gov website that better unifies CISA's mission.")
- National Cyber Security Division [outdated since 2023]
Laws and standards
[edit]- Federal Information Processing Standards - 3500 - outdated
- Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act - 2400 - needed citations since 2012
- Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework - Developed in 2014 by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act - 2015
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act - 2018 - established CISA under DHS
Congress
[edit]- United States Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Cybersecurity - established in 2017
- United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation
- United States House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection - established in 2007
Education
[edit]- National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education - established in 2008 as part of Bush directive
- National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence - established in 2012 through a partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Strategy
[edit]- National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace - 2003 DHS document
- Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative - 2008 Bush directive for U.S. cybersecurity
- Presidential Policy Directive 20 - 2012 Obama directive for U.S. cybersecurity