Cybersecurity

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington. President Joe Biden has selected two former senior National Security Agency officials for key cyber roles in his administration. Chris Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director. Jen Easterly, a former deputy for counterterrorism at the NSA, has been tapped to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

A lesser known but crucial office in the Homeland Security Department passes the 15-year mark

When you think of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, what comes to mind?

Cybersecurity

FITARA 13 scorecard brings truce to data center consolidation debate

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Test automation as a force multiplier in government

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Langevin pressing on cybersecurity, climate change in final act

Congress

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USPS has only made $35 in revenue from banking pilot

Federal Newscast

Biden says defense, intel agencies have to follow cyber EO requirements, too

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CISA adapts to address cybersecurity threats

Technology

Next generation solutions to today’s IT problems

Federal Tech Talk

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Why no one has gotten to the bottom of the Log4j cybersecurity hole

Cybersecurity

FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2020, file photo, a Microsoft computer is among items displayed at a Microsoft store in suburban Boston. Microsoft says the same Russia-backed hackers responsible for the 2020 SolarWinds breach continue to attack the global technology supply chain and are have been relentlessly targeting cloud service resellers and others since summer. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

GAO: Agencies had trouble dealing with major cyber incidents in 2020

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Sept. 20, 2020, file photo, Rep. John Katko, R-N.Y., questions witnesses during a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Capitol Hill Washington. Some House Republicans joined Democrats in voting to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The Republican mavericks were led Katko, who wrote the measure with Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. (Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP, File)

Lawmaker sets sights on ‘CISA 2025’ legislative proposal

Cybersecurity

Let the dust settle on CMMC 2.0

For the past several months, there has been a frantic scrambling by all stakeholders involved in the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program…

Commentary

Agencies need to work smarter, not harder to close cyber vulnerabilities

Michael Duffy, an associate director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Homeland Security Department, said meeting the recent…

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Achieving ‘the most trusted capability’ for cloud service providers: DoD Impact Level 5

Federal Insights

Any cloud service provider that wants to do business with the federal government needs to get FedRAMP certified first. But companies that want to do business with the Defense Department have to go a step further.