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  • Inglis to step down next week from post as nation’s first national cyber director

    Inglis to step down next week from post as nation’s first national cyber director

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    Current Deputy National Cyber Director Kemba Eneas Walden will immediately take over as acting national cyber director. The position is Senate-confirmed, and it was not immediately clear who President Joe Biden plans to nominate.

    Inglis’ resignation is taking place amid the anticipation of the release of the new National Cyber Strategy, the first in five years, which is expected to lay out a roadmap for addressing major issues like defending critical infrastructure and disrupting threat actors.

    Inglis has a long history in federal government, and served as the deputy director of the National Security Agency under both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. He was a commissioner on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, which published a report on ways to secure the nation in cyberspace in 2020, and over his career, he’s also spent decades in various positions at the NSA and the Department of Defense.

    Inglis was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to the position in June 2021, and garnered wide bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. Inglis, alongside Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, participated in issues including the formation of the Counter Ransomware Initiative to create a global effort to fight ransomware attacks.

    He took over in the position one month after the ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, which crippled fuel supplies for the East Coast, and less than a year before Russia invaded Ukraine, key moments for cyber policy. Inglis also established and fully staffed the national cyber director office, working to integrate his role into the existing federal cyber oversight structure, which also included the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

    CISA Chief of Staff Kiersten Todt said in a recent interview that Inglis had been a “tremendous leader” who was “the best person for the job.”

    “In such a short period of time, he established an office and a reputation and this ability to unify in many ways, this interagency process and he has been such a tremendous partner to CISA,” Todt said.

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    ( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

  • The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

    The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

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    Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best of this week’s crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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    ( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

  • The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

    The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

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    Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best of this week’s crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

    By POLITICO STAFF

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  • The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

    The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

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    Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here’s an offering of the best of this week’s crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.

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  • 72 Nations To Participate “No Money For Terror” Conference Hosted In India From 18th November

    72 Nations To Participate “No Money For Terror” Conference Hosted In India From 18th November

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    In a two-day “No Money For Terror” event beginning Friday, India will utilise its security lens to show how it has been a victim of terror and the issues it has faced for decades.

    This conference will be attended by representatives from 72 nations. Pakistan and Afghanistan have not been invited, but China has been invited.

    “We have invited China,” Sanjay Verma, Secretary of the External Affairs Ministry. However, China’s approval is still pending.

    “In all, 88 organisations are participating,” he said, according to NDTV, “including 15 multilateral organisations such as the FATF and Interpol.”

    The ‘No Money for Terror’ conference will bring together approximately 200 representatives from anti-terrorism organisations from 75 countries, as per News18.

    After two back-to-back conferences – Interpol and the UN Counter-Terrorism Conference – in Mumbai, this is the third in a series of conferences.

    The ministry went on to say that because India has been subjected to various types of terrorism and its financing for more than three decades, it understands the anguish and grief suffered by other countries. In order to demonstrate solidarity with peace-loving nations and to help build a bridge for long-term cooperation on counter-terrorism financing, India hosted two global events in October: the annual General Assembly of Interpol in Delhi and a special session of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee in Mumbai and Delhi.

    The conference will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and participants will debate topics related to terrorism and terror finance.

    The two-day conference will have four sessions, each chaired by a minister.

    “Issues like cryptocurrency and crowdfunding are going to be discussed at length,” a senior official said, according to NDTV.

    He stated that terrorism’s financial backbone must be broken.

    “The funding of terrorist activities often requires funds to be moved within or across jurisdictions. This might be done through official channels of the financial system remittances, or through unregulated channels or use of cash couriers. The informal system remains a preferred channel for terrorist groups because of cost effectiveness, efficiency (speed of transfer), reliability, lack of customer identification checks, lack of transaction records and tax evasion,” he added.

    “Misuse of social media for crowdfunding is common and there is consensus building among countries that it needs to be paid attention,” National Investigation Agecy chief Dinkar Gupta said.

    Security services have provided comprehensive examples of how terror groups around the world are engaging in sectarian conflicts, which are increasingly predicated on ethnic-nationalist and sectarian lines.

    “A substantial number of terrorist attacks continue to be perpetrated by local actors against local targets (state machinery) aimed at achieving local objectives, while certain global terrorist organisations have made a noticeable effort to perpetrate transnational attacks in the South Asian region,” a senior officer said.

    (With inputs from NDTV, News18)


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