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Shannon Pierson
@srpierson.bsky.social
Senior Fellow, Public Intetest Cybersecurity @CLTCBerkeley 🌱
Reposted by Shannon Pierson
Cyber threats targeting US #water infrastructure are escalating. But the EPA faces budget cuts of up to 65%.

Slashing funding may have serious downstream #cybersecurity impacts on an already vulnerable water sector.

Read the latest from @srpierson.bsky.social: cltc.berkeley.edu/publication/...
Slashing EPA funding may have downstream cybersecurity impacts on an already vulnerable water sector - CLTC
America’s water and wastewater utilities rely on the Environmental Protection Agency for cybersecurity support and guidance. With the EPA’s funding on the Trump Administration’s chopping block, Americ...
cltc.berkeley.edu
May 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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📢 Are you attending #BSidesSF? Join CLTC’s @powa-sec.bsky.social & @srpierson.bsky.social who will share findings from our partnership with the City and County of San Francisco to strengthen nonprofit cybersecurity.🛡️
April 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Reposted by Shannon Pierson
Schools rely on technology more than ever, but are ed tech companies doing enough to protect student data? 🔏​💻​​🏫

In a new op-ed, CLTC's @powa-sec.bsky.social & @srpierson.bsky.social name the urgent need for ed tech providers to step up in improving K-12 cyber. www.the74million.org/article/to-m...
To Make Ed Tech More Secure, Software Companies Need to Step Up
Pierson and Powazek: Insights from UC Berkeley’s closed-door session with education software manufacturers.
www.the74million.org
February 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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There is 1 WEEK LEFT to submit to CLTC's #CallForPapers: Public Interest Cybersecurity!⏳

Selected projects will receive research funding and travel accommodations to the 2025 Cyber Civil Defense Summit!

cltc.berkeley.edu/2024/12/09/c...

📅 Applications close Monday, Feb 3 @ 11:59 PM (PST).
Call for Papers: Public Interest Cybersecurity Research - CLTC UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
After last year’s Call for Papers (CFP) success, the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) is thrilled to once again solicit proposals for public-interest cybersecurity research.  Sele...
cltc.berkeley.edu
January 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
thrilled to see some of my recommendations incorporated into the updated Product Security Bad Practices guidance, published last week by CISA & the FBI 💪
📢 This week, CISA and the FBI released an updated version of the Product Security Bad Practices guide, which includes recommendations from CLTC!

The revised guidance now states that software manufacturers should support phishing-resistant MFA.

Read more: www.cisa.gov/resources-to...
Product Security Bad Practices | CISA
This voluntary guidance provides an overview of product security bad practices that are deemed exceptionally risky, particularly for software manufacturers who produce software used in service of crit...
www.cisa.gov
January 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM