Cybersecurity

Attracting in-demand cybersecurity talent to government service could be as simple as retraining current federal employees for the jobs of the future.

Savvy organizations have long turned to the National Institute of Standards and Technology for its detailed guidance publications on all facets of cybersecurity, and updates could be on the way.

Kara Sprague, senior vice president and general manager of Application Services at F5 Networks, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss app security and how her company is using new technologies to help federal IT professionals protect and optimize modern container based applications. March 26, 2019

The federal employment question forms a knot that remains difficult to untie.

Matt Shabat, the U.S. strategy manager for Glasswall Solutions, makes the case for how using a risk management framework can lead to real savings that agencies can use to move off legacy systems.

The White House plans on spending 5 percent more to secure federal networks and data in 2020, with more than half of the funding going toward Defense Department cybersecurity. Get this story and others in today’s Federal Newscast.

How are communications and public relations evolving in the GovCon market? Host Mark Amtower discusses the evolving nature the two concepts in the government contracting market with Evan Weisel Tony Welz and Stephen Mackey of W2 Communications.

Local jurisdictions’ control and operation of elections is a tradition but as the issue of election security becomes front and center, should Congress be involved?

In today’s Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration is changing how it verifies that companies are eligible to do business with or receive assistance from the government.

The 2020 president’s budget request keeps federal IT spending in 2020 about level with 2019. And the Analytical Perspectives on the budget released Monday indicate all is not well.

John Cofrancesco, vice president, Business Development at Active Navigation, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss records management and how his company can help federal agencies eliminate redundant, obsolete or trivial data.

U.S. Cyber Command said the new Cyber Excepted Service has cut its time-to-hire by 60 percent. But so far, DoD has only used the new personnel system for a few hundred positions.

CenturyLink became the first vendor under the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract to receive cybersecurity approval for its business systems.

Faced with longstanding hiring and recruiting challenges,  Customs and Border Protection made its first hire earlier this month using its data analytics-driven “fast track” personnel system.