{"id":188991,"date":"2026-02-19T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/white-house-looks-to-pilot-ai-empower-cisos-in-push-to-improve-cyber-resilience\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:25:09","slug":"white-house-looks-to-pilot-ai-empower-cisos-in-push-to-improve-cyber-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/white-house-looks-to-pilot-ai-empower-cisos-in-push-to-improve-cyber-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"White House looks to pilot AI, \u2018empower CISOs\u2019 in push to improve cyber resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House looks to pilot AI, \u2018empower CISOs\u2019 in push to improve cyber resilience<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-02-19 18:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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As the era of artificial intelligence stands to both increase cyber threats and aid efforts to counter them, federal government leaders are looking to bolster resilience with improved coordination, support for leaders, and new AI tools, a White House cyber official said Thursday.<\/p>\n

During remarks at CyberTalks, Michael Duffy, the acting federal chief information security officer within the Office of Management and Budget, shared several actions federal leaders have taken recently to boost the government\u2019s cybersecurity, calling the present technology moment \u201cpivotal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we enter this new era defined by AI, interconnections, [and] the expanded dependencies that all of us have, we can\u2019t wait for the next crisis to inspire our action,\u201d Duffy said.<\/p>\n

Existing policies were largely shaped by responses to major cybersecurity events over the last decade and don\u2019t account for risks of the new AI era, he said. So as leaders look to adapt those practices, they must ensure that what they put in place can endure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As a step to achieving the Trump administration\u2019s cybersecurity goals, Duffy said he convened civilian agency cyber leaders last month in a meeting he called a \u201cfirst\u201d for the government.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That so-called \u201ctabletop\u201d discussion convened over 60 cyber professionals and leaders, including CISOs and security operations center directors (SOCs). Topics included protocols, procedures, overlaps, gaps, and potential weaknesses when it comes to faster and scalable attacks, among other things, he said. Already, some of the opportunities highlighted are being put into place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is, cross-agency teams can no longer respond to massive cyber incidents to the federal government with sharing emails and phone calls and PDF files on threat intelligence,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cThis is a different time. We have to make sure that we\u2019re postured correctly to address that call.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, leadership is looking to \u201cempower the CISO role to make strategic decisions in a moment\u2019s notice,\u201d Duffy said. That includes decisions the information security professionals make for both administrative things \u2014 like budget, resources, and strategic plans \u2014 as well as \u201cwhen disaster strikes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn doing so, we\u2019ll consider things like redundant, insufficient capabilities, the use of modern technologies and modernized enterprise-wide capabilities and shared services such as Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation,\u201d Duffy said. CDM is a program run by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and provides security tools and dashboards to participating agencies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finally, Duffy said leaders are also working with agencies to improve cyber defense with new tech through pilots of several AI tools. A \u201csmall set\u201d of cyber-relevant uses are currently being identified.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to be proactive, highlighting what might work. Test it out. See if we can scale it from one agency to the next so that we can build the roadmap moving forward,\u201d Duffy said.<\/p>\n

That effort follows work by Federal CIO Greg Barbaccia to conduct a \u201cfederal AI sprint\u201d on general uses of the technology in government, which Duffy said they\u2019ve seen \u201cpositive progress\u201d on. \u201cWe\u2019re now turning our attention to cyber-specific use cases to ensure that we are ready for the threat,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tWritten by Madison Alder
\n\t\t\tMadison Alder is a reporter for FedScoop in Washington, D.C., covering government technology. Her reporting has included tracking government uses of artificial intelligence and monitoring changes in federal contracting. She\u2019s broadly interested in issues involving health, law, and data. Before joining FedScoop, Madison was a reporter at Bloomberg Law where she covered several beats, including the federal judiciary, health policy, and employee benefits. A west-coaster at heart, Madison is originally from Seattle and is a graduate of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.\t\t<\/p>\n

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