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According to a Cynet 2021 CISO survey, which focused on CISOs with five or fewer security staff members, a majority of these organizations are overwhelmed by the volume of cyberattacks.

In a letter, U.S. Rep. Robert C. Scott, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, urged the acting federal education secretary to open a federal investigation into Florida's Pasco County school district's practice of sharing student data with law enforcement.

The Second Annual Study on the Economics of Security Operations Centers: What is the True Cost for Effective Results? report from Ponemon Institute finds that organizations are spending more to account for widespread security operation center (SOC) challenges including growing security management complexity, increasing analyst salaries, security engineering and management outsourcing costs, yet are still dissatisfied with the outcomes. 

The University of Kent announced its Institute of Advanced Studies in Cyber Security and Conflict, a University-wide hub promoting interdisciplinary research and educational activities in cybersecurity and conflict. The institute will extend cybersecurity research into wider areas such as international conflict, cyber influence and behavior, cybercrime, cyber law and digital financial technology.

Casey Jessmon joins software company Ungerboeck as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

Brian Nicholls, Special Assistant to the Chief Security Officer (Marlon C. Lynch), will coordinate community engagement initiatives with organizations across the University of Utah, as well as implement new response protocols developed by the Racist and Bias Incident Response Team. 

In December 2020, the cybersecurity firm FireEye discovered one of the worst cyberattack in the U.S.'s history. The new Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) perspective Implications of the Sunburst Cybersecurity Attack addresses the damage caused by this attack and what public and private organizations, including transit agencies, can do to mitigate future attacks.