Aaron Boyd

Aaron Boyd is an awarding-winning journalist currently serving as editor of Federal Times — a Washington, D.C. institution covering federal workforce and contracting for more than 50 years — and Fifth Domain — a news and information hub focused on cybersecurity and cyberwar from a civilian, military and international perspective.

  • Navy officials: Buying the right amount of cyber [Commentary]
    Navy officials: Buying the right amount of cyber [Commentary]

    No one wants to be caught flat-footed or seen as not taking cyber defense seriously. In this environment, it would be easy to overspend and foist a cost-imposition strategy on ourselves.

  • Trump cyber policy could be ‘remarkably boring’
    Trump cyber policy could be ‘remarkably boring’

    If leaked drafts are any indication, the Trump administration’s forthcoming cyber policy will likely be similar to those of previous presidents, a former Homeland Security official said at the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco.

  • $50M cyber center to open in Georgia
    $50M cyber center to open in Georgia

    The project is accelerated to coincide with efforts to build a new headquarters with the Army Cyber Command, the first part of which will open in May 2018, and with investments from the National Security Agency.

  • Working with feds on cyber is about more than patriotism
    Working with feds on cyber is about more than patriotism

    Information sharing is about strengthening the nation’s cybersecurity posture but it’s also about more than just patriotism.

  • Current national defense models don’t work in cyberspace
    Current national defense models don’t work in cyberspace

    Former presidential cybersecurity adviser Michael Daniel walks through the various models for national defense, then explains why none of them work in cybersecurity.

  • McCaul calls for ‘red lines’ on political hacking
    McCaul calls for ‘red lines’ on political hacking

    Cyberattacks against the U.S., particularly domestic Democratic institutions, are a “red line we should not allow anyone to cross,” Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, told the crowd at the 2017 RSA Conference in San Francisco.

  • Starting the 1,000-mile journey to cyber-secure infrastructure
    Starting the 1,000-mile journey to cyber-secure infrastructure

    Former Director of the NSA’s Cyber Task Force Phil Quade wants us all to undertake a heroic mission: Fully securing the nation’s infrastructure from cyberattack.

  • 7 deadliest cyberattack techniques for 2017
    7 deadliest cyberattack techniques for 2017

    Experts from the SANS Institute explain the top threats currently evolving in cyberspace.

  • In sports, computer hacking is the new juicing
    In sports, computer hacking is the new juicing

    In team sports, the new frontier in cheating has nothing to do with performance enhancing drugs and everything to do with the computer sitting on the general manager’s desk.

  • Foreign hacker gets 8 years for $55M scam
    Foreign hacker gets 8 years for $55M scam

    A prolific foreign hacker behind cyberattacks that netted an estimated $55 million is facing sentencing by a U.S. judge in a conviction considered an unusual win for law enforcement officials who have identified hundreds of others like him but failed to put them in handcuffs.