Cybersecurity

The non-profit Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, ICIT, has a new executive director, Joyce Hunter.

Paul Tibbits, VA’s executive director in the Office of Technical Integration, and Gary Stevens, VA’s deputy chief information security officer, say the cooperative research and development agreement with UL sought to raise the bar of how manufacturers should secure medical devices.

The move to maximum telework across federal agencies hasn’t been a painless one, and Congress wants to know just how it’s going.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the number of cybersecurity incidents across government is down for a second straight year.

Donna Dodson’s peers call her a world leader in cybersecurity. Now she’s getting recognition for her work.

DoD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is in a hurry to move its software development to an enterprise cloud platform. The Air Force’s Cloud One is the next-best option for now.

Education Department CISO Steven Hernandez said the agency has been “tremendously productive” with a workforce that has largely worked from home during the pandemic.

This week on Federal Tech Talk, Scott Deviney, vice president, US Public Sector at Riverbed, joins host John Gilroy to discuss how his company is helping the federal government address the challenges faced by its remote workforce.

Local governments are shuttering at coronavirus’ potential job losses. But with mobility and cloud investment rising, desktops time is over.

Government Accountability Office says the IRS has more than 100 significant cybersecurity weaknesses that leave it vulnerable to attacks and data theft.

Jamie Holcomb, chief information officer for US Patent and Trademark Office, joins host John Gilroy on this week’s Federal Tech Talk to discuss his plans for modernizing the agency and the role artificial intelligence will play in that effort.

Controlling and protecting the new U.S. Space Force’s satellites will require plenty of data. Some of the Space Force’s assets will carry over from the Air Force but it is still a new operation.

Guy Cavallo, the deputy CIO at SBA, said the work under the CDM and TIC programs over the last two years is opening the door to pilot zero trust concepts and move away from the “hub and spoke” model for its network.

In the last couple of weeks, GAO has reissued reminders on open recommendations. It’s a long list.