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Wildfire bears down on Montana towns as West burns
LAME DEER, Mont. (AP) — A wildfire bore down on rural southeastern Montana towns Thursday as continuing hot, dry weather throughout the West drove flames through more than a dozen states.
Several thousand people remained under evacuation orders as the Richard Spring Fire advanced across the sparsely-populated Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.
Meanwhile, the Dixie Fire — which started July 13 and is the largest wildfire burning in the nation — threatened a dozen small communities in the northern Sierra Nevada even though its southern end was mostly corralled by fire lines.
The blaze had burned over 780 square miles (over 2,000 square kilometers), destroyed some 550 homes and nearly obliterated the town of Greenville. It was 30% contained.
On Wednesday, the Montana fire displayed extreme behavior and had grown by tens of thousands of acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. The blaze, which was only 15% surrounded, began Sunday and powerful gusts caused it to explode across more than 230 square miles (600 square kilometers).
By nightfall, the fire had crept within about 2 miles (3.22 kilometers) of the evacuated town of Lame Deer, leaping over a highway where officials had hoped to stop it.
Rancher Jimmy Peppers sat on his horse east of town, watching an orange glow grow near the site of his house.
“I didn’t think it would cross the highway so I didn’t even move my farm equipment,” said Peppers, who spent the afternoon herding his cattle onto a neighbor’s pasture closer to town. “I don’t know if I’ll have a house in the morning.”
The town of about 2,000 people is home to the tribal headquarters and several subdivisions and is surrounded by rugged, forested terrain. By late Wednesday a second fire was closing in on Lame Deer from the west, while the Richard Spring fire raged to the east.
A few miles from town, Krystal Two Bulls and some friends stuck around to clear brush from her yard in hopes of protecting it from the flames. Thick plumes of smoke rose from behind a tree-covered ridgeline just above the house.
“We’re packed and we’re loaded so if we have to go, we will,” Two Bull said. “I’m not fearful; I’m prepared. Here you don’t just run from fire or abandon your house.”
Also ordered to leave were about 600 people in and around Ashland, a small town just outside the reservation. Local, state and federal firefighters were joined by ranchers using their own heavy equipment to carve out fire lines around houses.
The National Weather Service said a ridge of high pressure moving into the area would pump temperatures into the 90s over the weekend.
Drought conditions have left trees, grass and brush bone-dry throughout many Western states, leaving them ripe for ignition. Montana alone had 25 large wildfires burning, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
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Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity: NIST’s Responsibilities under the Executive Order
Overview:
The President’s Executive Order (EO) on “Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (14028)” issued on May 12, 2021, charges multiple agencies – including NIST– with enhancing cybersecurity through a variety of initiatives related to the security and integrity of the software supply chain.
Section 4 of the EO directs NIST to solicit input from the private sector, academia, government agencies, and others and to identify existing or develop new standards, tools, best practices, and other guidelines to enhance software supply chain security. Those guidelines are to include:
criteria to evaluate software security,
criteria to evaluate the security practices of the developers and suppliers themselves, and
innovative tools or methods to demonstrate conformance with secure practices.
The EO calls for NIST to consult with the National Security Agency (NSA), Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and then to define “critical software” by June 26, 2021.
NIST is to publish guidance outlining security measures for critical software by July 11, 2021, after consulting with CISA and OMB.
Also by July 11, 2021, after consulting with theNSA,NIST will publish guidelines recommending minimum standards for vendors’ testing of their software source code.
By November 8, 2021, NIST is to publish preliminary guidelines, based on stakeholder input and existing documents for enhancing software supply chain security.
By February 6, 2022, after consulting heads of various agencies, NIST will issue guidance that identifies practices that enhance software supply chain security, with references to standards, procedures, and criteria.
By May 8, 2022, NIST will publish additional guidelines, including procedures for periodically reviewing and updating guidelines.
The EO also directs NIST to initiate two labeling programs related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and software to inform consumers about the security of their products. Those efforts have initial deadlines of February 6, 2022. Like its other assignments in the EO, NIST will rely heavily on stakeholder ideas and information in carrying out these tasks.
https://www.nist.gov/itl/executive-order-improving-nations-cybersecurity