McCormick
14:56 - 15:30
"The Department of Justice recovered more than $52 million last fiscal year in cybersecurity-related False Claims Act settlements alone. And notably, most of those cases involved misrepresentation rather than an actual breach."
“The Department of Justice recovered more than $52 million last fiscal year in cybersecurity-related False Claims Act settlements alone. And notably, most of those cases involved misrepresentation rather than an actual breach.”
- Speaker
- McCormick
- Timestamp
- 14:56 – 15:30
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- June 24, 2026
From the transcript
Many federal awards require recipients to protect sensitive taxpayer-funded data using specific, well-established standards. When an institution falsely certifies that it meets those standards, That's not just a paperwork violation. It's exposing exactly the kind of information our adversaries are trying to obtain. The Department of Justice recovered more than $52 million last fiscal year in cybersecurity-related False Claims Act settlements alone. And notably, most of those cases involved misrepresentation rather than an actual breach.
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