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Steven Burke, of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, said one of the ways to overcome those challenges is with good business relationships among government customers and external data owners.
Read moreThe Digital Investigations Branch in HHS’ Office of Inspector General has a team of highly skilled digital investigators to collect and analyze electronically stored information to support criminal investigations.
For David Case, deputy inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs, investigations are a mix of sifting through documents and machine-generated data, and talking to individuals.
Data is a blessing and a curse, but some entities are using it successfully, and changing their approach.
Among the most ubiquitous of federal agency activities are investigations. The term brings to mind law enforcement agencies, of course, such as the FBI or the IRS criminal division. Thought of more broadly, investigations also include oversight activities by inspectors general or the Government Accountability Office, program examinations by analysts or congressional staffers, and casework by agencies as diverse as the Merit Systems Protection Board or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The Defense Department’s criminal investigations always had the goal of evidence data, but the traditional methods of investigation are now merging new forms of data analysis. The Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) sees several changes ahead as a result.
It’s not easy to share information securely outside your organization. This is the crux of the DoD’s policy on Mission Partner Environments (MPE).
The FAA has a big data challenge underway. It is the latest federal opportunity for students to take a shot at some real-world technology problem solving.
CISA said the hackers have compromised operational technology connected to water systems, dams, energy networks, and the food and agriculture sector.
The National Archives and Records Administration says there’s an “unacceptable risk” of its sensitive data making its way into ChatGPT’s large language model.
The DIA deputy director for global integration says middle management is preventing the intelligence community from harnessing more advanced data analysis.
Keeping backup data untouched guarantees that it’s always recoverable and a ransom will never have to be paid, no matter what.
The 2021 Biden Administration executive order on cybersecurity, laid out no less than 55 requirements. And those were just for leadership and oversight.
CISA Director Jen Easterly said her agency has completed EDR deployments at eight federal agencies, with five more in progress.